I BAKU TURCOLOGICAL CONGRESS OF 1926 AS AN ATTEMPT TO UNIFY TURKIC NATIONS

Abstract

I Baku Turcological Congress, which took place in 1926, had a great political and cultural significance for the Turkic communities of the former Russian Empire, who went under the Soviet rule in 1922. Being the first ever scientific congress on Turcology it had a curious purpose of creating of a unified spelling of the new Turkic alphabet based on a Latin script for all Turkic societies of the Central Asia and Caucasus, the unification of terminology and the printing of new textbooks with the introduction to the new alphabet. Present article deals with the development of the idea of Turkism within Turkic societies of the former Russian Empire, the first political and cultural congresses held by them and the I Baku Turcological Congress as a climax of the unification intentions of these peoples.