Dear colleagues! International Scientific-Practical Conference on «Modern Turcology: Development Trends and Current Challenges» has been scheduled for May 17-18, 2011 at the Kazakh State Women’s Pedagogical University, organized in honor of the 20 th anniversary of the Republic of Kazakhstan and in memory of the 80th anniversary of the well-known scientist and turcologist, Doctor of philological science, Professor Abzhan Kuryshzhanuly. Conference Sessions include: General issues of Turcology, Runic scripts studies and history of Turkic languages, Issues of Turkic terminology, History and culture relations of the Turkic people: issues of Anthropology and Ethnography, Succession of the elements of world linguistic layout in the old Turkic and modern Turcology, Turcology teaching challenges and particular Turkic languages, Current challenges of modern Turkic languages and Literature.

