On the 10^th of September the scientific panels were held at the Central Scientific Library of ANAS, organized by the ANAS Institute of Folklore, within the framework of the XIV International Symposium on Altaic Communities, dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of the First Turkological Congress.

In the scientific program for that day of the symposium dedicated to the theme “The Past, Present and Future of Altaic Studies” 20 sessions were held across four halls and a total of 80 presentations were delivered.

During the panel sessions, discussions covered various aspects of Altaic studies and Turkology including the history, language, literature, folklore, mythology, culture and political and cultural ties of Turkic peoples as well as the current state and future prospects of Altaic studies.

In the first panel the presentations were delivered on the origins of Turkic history, the Hun-Scythian issue, the ancient Turks and the Turkic Khaganate, the religion and belief system of the Kok Turks, the scientific legacy of the 1926 Baku Turkological Congress, the development of Altaic studies in various countries, Turkological folklore studies and the idea of Turkism.

During the second panel sessions, presentations were delivered on the past, present and future of research into the epics of the Turkic world, the epic “Ergenekon”, the figure of “Tepegoz” within a psychoanalytic context, the philosophy of “Manas”, the natural and cultural heritage of the Altai region, museum collections, court culture and Turkic-Hungarian relations.

The panels focused on topics such as the migration and cultural memory of Turkic peoples, the legacy of Ahmed Agaoglu, the concept of sacred space in Turkic literature, the significance of Chinese sources for Altaic studies, the role of European-published Orientalist journals in Altaic research, the grammatical gender category in Turkic languages and the mountain-human archetype in the works of Ashiq Alasgar.

During the sessions of the fourth panel the presentations were delivered on source criticism in Turkic studies, the current state and prospects of the field, Turkic studies at the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Turkic family law in the research of Ahmed Agaoglu, the role of the “Diwan Lughat al-Turk” in studying the history of Altaic languages and the etymological study of the Turkmen language.

It should be noted that the XIV International Symposium on Altaic Communities is being held under the theme “The Past, Present and Future of Altaic Studies”. Scholars and researchers representing a total of 15 countries, such as Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Mongolia, India, China, Japan, North Macedonia, Hungary, Germany and the Russian Federation are participating in the symposium.