WNAM MONITORING: Azerbaijan will be represented as an honorary guest at the 41st Istanbul International Book Fair in Türkiye.
The event, organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, will be attended by prominent socio-political, statesmen, poets and writers, as well as representatives of a wide range of artists.
Publications of the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation will be demonstrated at the stand of Azerbaijan. It should be noted that the Republic of Azerbaijan, which is the founding country of the Foundation, in the status of an honorary guest in the Republic of Türkiye, also one of the founding countries of the Foundation, is a significant cultural and historical event. Also, within the framework of the 41st Istanbul Book Fair, the Foundation organizes a number of book presentations.
So, on November 3, at 11:00-12:00, the presentation of the book “We are with you, Türkiye”, published by the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation, will take place. The book contains poems by outstanding poets of the Turkic world dedicated to the earthquake that occurred in Türkiye on February 6, 2023. At the opening of the event, a letter from the President of the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation Mrs. Aktoty Raimkulova addressed to the participants of the exhibition will be read out. Next, the head of apparatus of the Foundation, Fakhri Hajiyev, will share his thoughts on the publication. At the event, poet Salim Babullaoglu, Chairman of the Youth Council of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan Farid Huseyn will read poems dedicated to the earthquake. The translator and editor of the book is the secretary of the Writers’ Union of Azerbaijan, poet Salim Babullaoglu.
On November 3, at 17:00, the presentation of the book by the great thinker of Türkiye Suleyman Chelebi “Mavlid”, published by the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation in Turkish and German, will take place. The head of apparatus of the Foundation Fakhri Hajiyev, poet Farid Huseyn and young researcher Ravan Javid will share their thoughts on the publication prepared by researcher Orhan Aras.
On November 4, at 12:00-12:45, the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation will host a presentation of the book “I am here, God”, published in Turkish in honor of the 85th anniversary of the people’s poet of Azerbaijan Vagif Samedoglu. At the event, a letter from the President of the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation Mrs. Aktoty Raimkulova addressed to the participants of the presentation will be read, and then the head of the apparatus of the Foundation Fakhri Hajiyev will make a report on the publication, including the activities of the Foundation. During the event, the head of the Vagif Samedoglu Center Nushaba Babayeva-Vakilova will talk about the significance of publishing Vagif Samedoglu’s book in Turkish. Poets Salim Babullaoglu, Gismat, Farid Huseyn and others will make a presentation and talk about the exceptional role of Vagif Samadoglu in Azerbaijani poetry. The translator of the publication is the late Turkologist, translator Arif Ajalov, the editor is the famous Turkish poet Adnan Ozer.
It should be noted that each of the events will be held at the stand of Azerbaijan, in the International Hall of the TÜYAP Exhibition Center.
