Language & literatureNovember 10, 2026
Eskisehir workshop on keeping Crimean Tatar alive: academics discuss textbooks and the language's future
A Crimean Tatar Academic Cooperation Workshop took place in Eskisehir, Türkiye. On 9 November the Crimean News Agency (QHA) published interviews with participants. The report does not give the exact date or the organisers.
Dr. Filiz Tutku Aydin Bezikoglu, a faculty member at Ankara Social Sciences University's Faculty of Political Sciences, said the meeting discussed the academic work needed to keep Crimean Tatar alive and pass it on, along with the content of textbooks and other teaching materials. In her words, the new generations are about to lose the language.
The interviews also recalled how Soviet-era repression of Crimean Tatar intellectuals, linguists among them, and the loss of their research affected the language. Bezikoglu called that period a “cultural genocide”.
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