Bursa selected as the 2022 Cultural Capital of the Turkic World...

By a decision taken at the 38th Term Meeting of the TÜRKSOY Permanent Council of Ministers of Culture, held in the city of Khiva, Uzbekistan, with the participation of Minister of Culture and Tourism Mr. Mehmet Nuri Ersoy on behalf of Türkiye, Bursa was declared the "2022 Cultural Capital of the Turkic World."

We wish that Bursa's being declared the 2022 Cultural Capital of the Turkic World may bring good fortune to our country, and to our city of Bursa above all.

TÜRKSOY, the UNESCO of the Turkic world, was founded in 1993 by an agreement signed by the Ministers of Culture of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Türkiye. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Altai, Sakha, Tuva and Khakassia belonging to the Russian Federation, and the Gagauz region belonging to Moldova have joined TÜRKSOY as observer members. Since its founding, TÜRKSOY has worked to strengthen the heartfelt unity and brotherhood of the Turkic peoples, to pass on the shared Turkic culture to future generations, and to introduce it to the world. From Türkiye, Eskişehir was selected as Cultural Capital of the Turkic World in 2013 and Kastamonu in 2018.