CultureOctober 26, 2026
At Hungary's Pantheon of Kindred Peoples, a TÜRKSOY delegation lays flowers at the statues of Nizami, Abai, Navoi, Yunus Emre and Magtymguly

On 24 October, as part of the Kyrgyz Culture Day programme in Lakitelek, a TÜRKSOY delegation visited the Pantheon of Peoples Kindred to the Hungarians at Hungarikum Liget. It was led by the organisation's Secretary General Sultan Raev, and the visit was reported on 26 October.
Flowers were laid at the statues of great figures of the Turkic world: Nizami Ganjavi, Abai Kunanbayev, Ali-Shir Navoi, Yunus Emre and Magtymguly Pyragy. The Kyrgyz manaschi Sayakbay Karalayev was also remembered, with his name tied to the passing of the Manas epic down the generations.
The ceremony was attended by Sándor Lezsák, chairman of the Lakitelek Foundation's board of trustees, Hungarian MP Anna Lezsák, Nurbek Talantbekov, director of the Kyrgyz National Manas Theatre, Kyrgyz artists and representatives of Turkic states' embassies in Hungary. The visit was presented as a way to preserve shared cultural memory and hand it on to future generations.
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