First Meeting of the Terminology Committee, established under the Turkic Council in order to promote convergence among national languages of the Member States, was held in Istanbul on November 16, 2012.
The Meeting brought together scholars commissioned by the Governments as national representatives as well as experts from the Turkish Language Association and the Informatics Association of Turkey.
Participants elaborated on the principles of developing common terminology and agreed that the related academic endeavors should be collected under a single roof and expedited. Other issues agreed upon during the Meeting include preparation of a glossary of common terms and an illustrated explanatory dictionary of common words as well as further improvement of the Comparative Dictionary of Turkic Languages.
It is expected that the Committee will convene several times a year and the related academic research will be carried out by the Turkic Academy.
