― 1 июня 2011 г.

Dusen Kaseinov Participated in The Commemoration of Hasan Oraltay

A commemoration event for Hasan Oraltay who is one of the famous personalities of Esatern Turkistan and died approximately one year ago was organized in Salihli/Manisa.

Many guests from Turkey, Germany, and Kazakhstan participated in the commemoration. As usual for Kazakh traditions the commemoration started with a meal served at his house where prayers were also made. Hasan Oraltay’s wife Hatice Oraltay, son Canibek Oraltay, niece Meryem Hakim and relatives were the hosts of the commemoration to which TURKSOY Secretary General Dusen Kaseinov, former Minister of State Sadi Somuncuoğlu, the Proxy of the Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Turkey Abay Iskakulu, the Governor of Salihli Mesut Yıldırım, and the academician from the Evrazia University Prof. Dr. Tursın Jurtbay also participated.

After the inaugural speeches of the symposium an opening conference was held by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Bican Ercilasun. Prof. Dr. Ercilesun who received his first lessons of turcology from Oraltay whom he met in his highschool years compared the life of the 77 year old "Kazakh brother” to the adventurous history of the concept of being Turkic.

TURKSOY Secretary General Dusen Kaseinov said that Hasan Oraltay is the most famous personality of Kazakh recent history and added: "TURKSOY always commemorates sıgnıfıcant people of turkic history such as Hasan Oraltay”.

The symposium was comprised of two parts and featured presentations by Prof.Dr. Gülçin Çandarlıoğlu, Doç. Dr. Sebahattin Şimşir (Balıkesir University), İbrahim Metin (Editor), Doç. Dr. Abdülvahap Kara (Mimar Sinan University), the Director of the Vocational Highschool of the Celal Bayar Universitesy in Salihli Ass. Prof. Adnan Erdal, Prof. Dr. Fikret Türkmen (Ege University), Prof. Dr. Tursın Jurtbay (Evraziya University), Dr. Hayrolla Gabjalel (Director of the Alaş Research Center), Prof. Dr. Nabijan Mukametkan (El Farabi University), Sayasat Beyisbay (Kazak Radio Channel), Alşınbay Tartanuly (businessman) and the author Omarali Abdibek. The commemorative book published by the Research Foundation on the Turkic World and comprised of communiqués presented during the symposium as well as texts by Oraltay was offered to all participants.

WHO IS HASAN ORALTAY?

Hasan Oraltay, was born in 1933 in Eastern Turkistan (which are belonging to Kazakhstan today), in the Golden Emil region of the Tarbagatay mountains. In 1934 he migrated to the region of Erenkabirga in the Celsetial Mountains together with his father and Governor of Manas-Savan Alibek Hakim and uncles. Between 1939-1941 he received his traditional islamic education from his uncle Adilbek Rahimbekoğlu, and he pursued this education at the Sergazi School of Mollas. In 1944 he started modern pedagogical studies at the Sabit School of Pedagogical Sciences. However these studies were interrupted halfway when the Region of Eastern Turkistan started to struggle for its independance.From 1949 to 1951 he experienced the Kazakh migration. In 1950 he started living in the district where Turkic peoples from Bulgaria were living. In 1956 he came to Izmir. As the son of a person who participated in this heroic battle in Eastern Turkistan, Hasan Oraltay recounted all the history of Kazakhs’ independance along with their struggle as a nation who migrated from İndia to Turkey, from Turkey to Europe and back again to the East, to the territories of Turkistan. In 1956 he wrote a series of texts recounting the history of the Kazakh Turks from Eastern Turkistan which were published in a journal entitled "Ege Ekspresi” (The Aegean Express). In 1961 he wrote "Hürriyet Uğrunda Doğu Türkistan Kazak Türkleri” (Kazakh Turks in Quest of Freedom), followed by "Büyük Türkçü Mağcan Cumabayoğlu” in 1956. In 1973 he wrote a book on the National Independance Of Turks from Alaş Turkistan. In 1984 he prepared the dictionnary on Kazakh Turkic Language. He worked for 28 years at the Kazakh Radio Station Azatlık in Munich/Germany. After the collapse of the Soviet Union he received the Alaş Award of the Independant Republic of Kazakhstan in 1994 and was declared Professor Emeritus by the Ahmed Yesevi Turkic-Kazakh University in the same year. In 2006 his last book entitled Elimay-Lap Ötken Ömirden was published. Hasan Oraltay died in Germany in 2010.