In Kyrgyzstan, one of the most outstanding writers of the writers of the Turkic world Genghis Aitmatov was honored.
On the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the death of the writer, a memorable event was held in the Ata-Bayite memorial complex, where Genghis Aitmatov was buried next to his father.
Professor Ilyas Topsal, head and founder of the Institute of Genghis Aitmatov, who opened in Ankara in February 2025, took part in the ceremony. The ceremony was attended by family members, relatives and colleagues of the writer, as well as delegates to the Genghis Aitmatov forum – the future of the Turkic world, which starts today in Bishkek, the State Secretary of Kyrgyzstan, Marat Imankulov, General Secretary of the International Organization of the Turkic Culture (Turks) Sultan Raev, Deputy General Secretary General Saiit Yusuf, deputy of the Uzbekistan parliament Akmal Saidov, rector of the Kyrgyz-Turkish University “Manas” (KTMU) Professor Alpaslan Jaylan and artist Sakit Mamedov from Azerbaijan.
The participants in the ceremony laid a wreath to the writer’s grave, after which the mufti of Kyrgyzstan Abdulaziz Zakirov read out the Qur’an.
Genghis Aitmatov was born on December 12, 1928 in the village of Sheker (now the Talas region of Kyrgyzstan).
In 2008, on the eve of his 80th anniversary, Aitmatov went to Kazan to shoot a documentary “and the day lasts longer than a century.” The writer caught a cold on the set, the cold went into acute pneumonia, the kidneys began to refuse.
On May 16, 2008, Aitmatov on the plane was delivered to the clinic of the city of Nuremberg (Germany), but on June 10 of the same year he died.