The story of the poet who united the Turkic peoples
One of the central streets of the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan, the ancient city of Osh, bears the name of Alisher Navoi – turkic poet, founder of Uzbek literature. During his life at the turn of the 15th-16th centuries, Central Asia was united into the Timurid state.
The languages of science and literature in the state were rightfully Arabic and Persian. Navoi considered the development of the literary Turkic language one of his main tasks.
The head of the Department of History and Theory of Literature of the KRSU, Bakhtiyar Koychuev, spoke about the role of Alisher Navoi in the formation of new Turkic literature.
«Navoi wrote: It seems to me that I have established the great truth before the worthy people of the Turkic people. They, having learned the true power of their speech and its expressiveness, the wonderful qualities of their language, got rid of the disparaging attacks on it from those who compose poetry in Persian. If you think about it well, there is so much richness and subtlety in this language, it has many rare words and expressions'. All of Navoi's activities were aimed at glorifying the native language and literature and making readers aware of their value», – koychuev said.
