The seminar titled “Timurid Renaissance and Turkic Languages / From Chagatai to Modern Turkish,” organized at the Free University of Brussels on April 9, 2025, attracted great interest. This seminar was held to celebrate the 689th anniversary.

The seminar, specially prepared by Dr. Lebriz Sönmez, professor of Turkish at the Free University of Brussels, and Derya Soysal, this author, history teacher and Central Asia specialist, drew significant attention.

Among the participants were Mehmet Özgür Çakar, acting chargé d’affaires and first counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Brussels, Onur Sevim, consul general of Brussels, Zeynep Yılmaz, counselor, Işıl Yaman Özbek, chief secretary of the embassy, Hümeyra Altuntaş Kıran, education counselor, Mehmet Kayış, commercial counselor, Aidit Erkin, ambassador of Kyrgyzstan in Brussels, Nurlan........

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