The Unified Turkic alphabet is important for the linguistic and spiritual unity of the Turkic world. This was in an interview with an anadol correspondent by the president of the Turkic Academy Shain Mustafaev.
On the eve of the 11th summit of the heads of the state of the organization of the Turkic states (OTG), which will be held in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, on November 6, Mustafaev said that this year the approval of the project of a single Turkic alphabet of 34 letters was the greatest success of the Turkic Academy this year .
He noted that a single Turkic alphabet is one of the first conditions for the peoples of the Turkic world can easily communicate with each other and integrated culturally.
According to Mustafaev, the process of creating a single alphabet is not a new process in the Turkic world.
“After the Turkic world entered the process of modernization in the 19th century, the intellectuals of that period began to think about the issue of a common alphabet. At that time, the Arab alphabet was used among all Turkic peoples. However, the Arabic alphabet did not fully reflect the phonetic structure of the Turkic languages. The systematic process began in 1926. Latin alphabet, ”said Mustafaev.
He explained that according to the results of the language reform, carried out in 1928 at the initiative of Gazi, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (founder of the Turkish Republic), Turkish Turks switched to Latin, and since 1929 the Turkic peoples in the Soviet Union began to use the common Latin alphabet. < /p>
“In 1939, this process (associated with Latin) was suspended due to the pressure of the Stalin regime (Joseph), the then leader of the Soviet Union. The vast majority of the Turkic peoples in the Soviet Union were forced to go to Cyrillic,” said Mustafaev. < /p>
The President of the Turkic Academy recalled that with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan gained their independence. “Since then, this issue (a single Turkic alphabet) has always been on the agenda and was discussed among scientists,” he said.