The decision taken at UNESCO’s 43rd General Conference, held in Samarkand on 3 November 2025, to officially proclaim 15 December as the “World Turkic Language Family Day” should be regarded not merely as a symbolic achievement for the Turkic language and the Turkic world, but as a multi-layered development with historical, cultural, and diplomatic dimensions (UNESCO, 2025). While this decision ensures the international recognition of the ancient heritage of the Turkic languages, it simultaneously provides an institutional framework that strengthens a shared sense of belonging among countries and communities belonging to the Turkic language family and sets a collective orientation toward the future. Decisions of this nature adopted by a norm-setting international organization such as UNESCO go beyond the mere registration of the past and create a new sphere of global visibility centered on shared identity and memory.
