On November 18, 2021, the Department of Turkology and language theory of the Faculty of Philology of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University organized a scientific lecture "gender cognition at the intersection of cultures" with Professor of the University of Haceteppe (Turkey), member of the UNESCO refia Gulin ugut Eker. At the meeting, the head of the Department Avakova Raushan Amirdinovna spoke about topical issues in the field of Turkology.