2nd International Symposium Common Language of Turkic World Ornaments

On May 22-24, 2017, the 2nd International Symposium Common language of the Turkic world ‒ ornaments on the theme Various roads of common source will be held at the Azerbaijan carpet museum. The symposium will be held with the organization of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Baku Turkish Cultural Center of the YunusEmre Institute and the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, with the support of the Turkish Embassy in Azerbaijan, the TurkPA (the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries), the Turkish Cultural and Tourism Office of the Republic of Turkic-speaking countries, Z Company 2007, Azerbaijan-Turkish Association of Business People and the Azerbaijan University of Languages.

Leading researchers, collectors, carpet weavers and other specialists of this field from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine will take part in the symposium.

The aim of this symposium is to enrich the common heritage of the Turkic people through the research works in the field of carpet patterns, and increase care, attention and knowledge of our people to their own national and cultural values.

The theme of the symposium is the art of the Turkic carpet patterns, which covers the main historical periods as BC, Islam and others, till present day. At the academic sessions lectures and discussions will be held on the themes of the semantics and general roots of the common language of the Turkic world - patterns; terms of the patterns of the Turkic-speaking people on the common carpet art and the problems in this area; carpet weaving patterns used in other art fields, mutual interaction and their enrichment; the importance of the patterns in art and new trends in the modern world: the modern decorative style from the basis of the classic expressiveness; special artistic language of pattern as a part of a human civilization.

The speeches of scientists working on the themes of the typological classification of the features of ornaments, their geographical distribution, and the protection of the material and spiritual heritage will be published in book form, and distributed to the libraries and among participants.

Within the framework of the 2nd International Symposium The Common Language of the Turkic World - Ornaments an exhibition of the exhibits of the National Gagauz Historical and Ethnographic Museum after D. Kara Choban will be held. At the exhibition will be shown carpets, embroidery, national costumes and other kinds of arts and crafts of Gagauz Turks.