On November 28, 2022, the Faculty of history of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, organized by the Department of History of Kazakhstan, held a round table on the theme "The HERITAGE OF THE TEACHER OF THE NATION" dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Akhmet Baitursynuly. The teachin

11/28/2022

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The round table was held by an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, and Head of the Department of History of Kazakhstan B.B. Karibayev and made an introductory speech as a moderator: "Akhmet Baitursynuly, Kazakh poet, researcher, Turkologist, publicist, teacher, translator, and public figure, was one of the leaders of the national liberation movement in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the twentieth century, and was a member of the Alash-Orda government."

Dean of the Faculty of History of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, D.S. Baygunakov stated that in the Soviet historiography of Kazakhstan, the opinion was based on that "the government of Alashorda was dissolved because it was against the Soviet system." At the same time, he emphasized that many cases about the state of Alashorda, Alash figures, including Akhmet Baitursynov, were not disclosed in historical literature and textbooks.

Among the honored guests of the round table, Professor of the Hadzhettepe University, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Mehmed Dervish Klynychkaya (Turkey) made a report on the topic "The influence of Akhmet Baitursynov on the formation of a new National state idea in Kazakhstan."

Our next guest from the University of Hadjeteppe, Professor Seifir Yildirim (Turkey), made a report on the topic "Review of studies on the topic of Alash Orda and Akhmet Baitursynov in the state of Turkey". The report contained the history of the formation of the national intelligentsia in Kazakhstan and a historiographical overview of the main works published in Turkey on this issue.

It is obvious that the teaching staff, undergraduates, and students participating in this event get acquainted in more detail with the life and work of the teacher of the nation - Akhmet Baitursynov.