MOLDOVA - GAGAUZIA

As Marmara Group Foundation, we are a civil initiative that attaches great importance to relations with Moldova. The Government of Moldova also attaches great importance to our approach, especially at the Eurasian Economic Summits, where it participates at a high level of participation. As Marmara Group Foundation, we are grateful and thankful for the high interest of former President Petru Lucinschi.

Moldova has always participated in the organizations we have developed in the past years with a high level of participation. Former President of Gagauzia Mihail Formuzal made a great contribution to the development of our relations. The interest of Irina Vlah, who became the head of Gagauzia after him, continued in the same way. If we want to talk about 87 years of Türkiye-Gagauzia relations, we need to mention three important people.

Mihail Çakır, the great scientist of the Gagauz region. Hamdullah Suphi Tanrıöver, the important name of Turkish nationalism. And the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

The great scientist Mihail Çakır, who lived between 1861-1938, translated the Bible into the Gagauz language. Mihail Cakir, who also served to keep the Gagauzian language alive, wrote in his important book “History of Bessarabian Gagauze” “Other nations recognized the Gagauz as soft, peaceful and quickly socializing people. Gagauz are real Turks. Their language is real Turkish. All known historians state that Gagauz descended from Oghuz.”

Hamdullah Suphi Tanrıöver, the Ambassador of Bucharest, who recognized the owner of these thoughts in 1931, wrote a letter to the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk about this person and presented him. When Atatürk heard about the thoughts and works of Mihail Çakır, who had Gagauz national identity, he honored him with a diploma and medal. In the light of Mihail Çakır's valuable knowledge, Ambassador Hamdullah Suphi Tanrıöver arranged for young Gagauzians to receive education in Türkiye. We continued to support students every year until the Second World War. Therefore, the Gagauz people are our brothers and sisters. There is no other community that preserves its tradition and language despite all the conditions of human history. Gagauzia is a very important bridge in this relationship by bringing color and strengthening Türkiye-Moldova cooperation. With the idea of “working together, earning together, living together” Moldovans have the added value of their wealth. By the way, there is a Turkish proverb. “The girl builds the state, the boy builds the army”. Now, the President of Gagauzia is a woman. As Marmara Group Foundation, we believe that Evgenia Gutul will make the living state even bigger.