{"id":9509,"date":"2026-02-20T16:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:25:33","slug":"an-event-dedicated-to-international-mother-language-day-held-at-aztu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/an-event-dedicated-to-international-mother-language-day-held-at-aztu\/","title":{"rendered":"An Event Dedicated to International Mother Language Day Held at AzTU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">February 21 is celebrated worldwide as <\/span><b>International Mother Language Day<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. On this occasion, a literary and artistic event was held at <\/span><b>Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event was jointly organized by the <\/span><b>Department of Humanities of AzTU<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>Student Trade Union Committee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. During the event, AzTU Vice-Rector <\/span><b>Rashad Aliyev<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> emphasized the crucial role of the mother tongue in enriching a person\u2019s spiritual world, broadening their worldview, and ensuring a high-quality education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, the Head of the Department of Humanities <\/span><b>Habib Mirzayev<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Ayten Gurbanova<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a researcher at the <\/span><b>Nizami Ganjavi Institute of Literature of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, delivered speeches highlighting that the mother tongue is the most important means in shaping an individual\u2019s personality. In this regard, preserving and further developing our mother tongue is the sacred duty of every citizen. The comprehensive development of the Azerbaijani language and its integration into the system of international relations is the result of the far-sighted policy of National Leader <\/span><b>Heydar Aliyev<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, aimed at protecting our language. Today, these traditions are successfully continued by President <\/span><b>Ilham Aliyev<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Ilham Aliyev\u2019s speech at the <\/span><b>80th anniversary meeting of ANAS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a clear example of the attention he gives to protecting national and moral values in Azerbaijan\u2019s language policy, as well as ensuring the purity and development of the language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the speeches, the event continued with an artistic and cultural program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4sdf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"59\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11sdg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11sdg.png 225w, https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11sdg-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 60px) 100vw, 60px\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/17sdg.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 60px) 100vw, 60px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/17sdg.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/17sdg-150x150.jpg 150w\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"59\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 21 is celebrated worldwide as International Mother Language Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25,31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-sdg-11","9":"category-sdg-17"},"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/365-1.jpg",1732,1154,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/365-1.jpg",1732,1154,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/365-1.jpg",1732,1154,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/365-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/365-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/365-1-1024x682.jpg",800,533,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/365-1-1536x1023.jpg",1536,1023,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/365-1.jpg",1732,1154,false],"a13_navigation_image_size":["https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/365-1-245x100.jpg",245,100,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"SDG","author_link":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/author\/admin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/category\/sdg-11\/\" rel=\"category tag\">SDG 11<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/category\/sdg-17\/\" rel=\"category tag\">SDG 17<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"February 21 is celebrated worldwide as International Mother Language Day.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9511,"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions\/9511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aztu.edu.az\/sdg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}