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Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Beibit Atamkulov met with the President of the Turkic Academy, Professor Darkhan Kydyrali, reports the press service of Kazakh MFA.

During the meeting they talked about the results of the work of the Turkic Academy in 2018 and outlined promising areas for further cooperation. Moreover, two parties reviewed the progress of the preparation of the World Congress of Turkologists planned for 2019 in Astana.

As they noted during the conversation, the World Congress of Turkology will be an important event for the Turkic world, which is designed to start the process of reviving world turkology, as well as in-depth analysis and fundamental rethinking of the current state, achievements, problems and prospects of world turkology.

Darkhan Kydyrali thanked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan for the ongoing support to the activities of the Academy. During the meeting, he informed about the upcoming international forum “The Great Steppe: Cultural Heritage and Role in World History”, which is also planned to be held in the middle of 2019 at UNESCO headquarters (Paris) with the participation of scientists from the Turkic Academy member states.

"The Qazaq Times"