Academicians, diplomats, politicians, artists and journalists got here collectively in Pakistan’s business capital, Karachi, to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye.
Organized by the Pakistan Print and Electronic Media Foundation (PPEMF) and the Culture Department of southern Sindh province on Saturday night, a colourful ceremony was attended by a lot of individuals, together with college students from totally different universities.
Among the attendees had been Sindh Culture Minister Syed Junaid Ali Shah, Turkish Consul General in Karachi Cemal Sangu, diplomats of China, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Indonesia, Oman and different nations, Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency’s (TIKA) Karachi coordinator Halil Ibrahim Başaran and Home Secretary Sindh Iqbal Memon.
Addressing the ceremony, Shah congratulated the individuals of Türkiye on the one hundredth anniversary of the republic, highlighting the “deep-rooted” spiritual and cultural ties between Türkiye and Pakistan.
In his remarks, Sangu famous that the 2 nations have at all times stood by one another in each testing second, whether or not it was final yr’s unprecedented floods in Pakistan or the large earthquakes in Türkiye in February.
In her presentation titled The Turkic Dimensions, Pakistan’s former legislation minister Shahida Jamil highlighted the footprints of Turkish heritage and tradition within the sub-continent courting again a whole bunch of years.
Meanwhile, Halil Tokar, the president of Yunus Emre Institute Pakistan, traced the centuries-old connection between Turkish and native tradition and languages, particularly Urdu, in his presentation.
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