The documentary known as “Turkish Memory of the Balkans” – which was screened for the primary time in Istanbul’s Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) – unveils the fateful journey of the Turkish language within the Balkans.
Directed, produced and written by Ismet Arasan, the documentary was offered by the distinguished Turcologist dwelling in Kosovo’s Prizren, Nimetullah Hafız.
The movie, produced with the collaboration of Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Kosovo’s Prizren Culture and Solidarity Association, offers perception into the Turkish languages which might be spoken within the Balkans, starting from Prizren to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgrade to Novi Pazar, Skopje to Sarajevo, to the Osman Paşa’s love from Trebinje. Overall, the documentary integrates the life and reminiscences of Hafız.
Hafız is without doubt one of the first-generation writers of Kosovo Turkish up to date literary creativity. He accomplished his doctorate in Istanbul University’s Faculty of Letters in 1976 together with his thesis on “Prizren Turkish Folk Literature Texts and Dialectal Characteristics” and have become the primary Turkish language physician of Kosovo Turks and the primary Turkish graduate.
He was additionally the primary one that organized the primary commemoration academy devoted to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the Turkish republic, after World War II, as the primary president of the Turkish Culture and Art Association’s Nazım Hikmet Literature Branch.
He evaluated the works of Turkish historical past and strived to make sure that they had been taken underneath safety.
His biggest contribution to Turkish training in Kosovo was to discovered the Department of Turkish Language and Literature on the University of Pristina. After the 2000s, together with his spouse, additionally a professor, Tacida Zubcevic Hafız, he based the Balkan Turkology Research Center, the primary Turcology middle within the Balkans and southeastern Europe.
“Turkish Memory of the Balkans” reveals how the lives of the Hafız household had been dedicated to sustaining and preserving the roots of the Turkish language, which has now turn out to be a minority language and tradition within the Balkans.
