Having registered Lavash-Yufka with UNESCO, Turkey was one of the 10 countries that registered the most element in "UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage".
At the 11th Committee Meeting of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in Ethiopia, the capital of Addis Ababa, one national and two multinational files on behalf of our country were presented to the Representative List.
"Traditional Tile Factory" as national file; Culture of "Making and Sharing Thin Bread: Lavash, Jupka, Klikma, Yufka" was presented to the committee as a multinational file and as a multinational expansion file in "Nevruz".
'Lavash, Jupka, Kýrmama, Yufka' culture, which was presented by Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in the moderation of Azerbaijan, was accepted at the meeting held yesterday and thus the 'Lavas' from our tangible cultural heritage On behalf of UNESCO was listed in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
In the coordination of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, Turkey, which makes the 11th UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Intergovernmental Committee Meeting almost unanimous, will increase the number of registered cultural heritages to 13, It was.
5 more countries to Nevruz File
At the meeting held yesterday, the geography of 'Nevruz' cult recorded in UNESCO in 2009 for the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity expanded. Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Iraq and Turkmenistan were added to 7 countries, including Turkey. The Nevruz file included Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Turkey.
Next is Tile Art
In the present part of the meeting in Ethiopia, we will see the "Traditional Tile Masterpiece" which our country alone presents. By registering the art of tile in Turkey on behalf of Turkey, the number of elements of the intangible cultural heritage of our country will increase to 14.
International Introductions to UNESCO
There were 12 elements of Turkey before the UNESCO list of transnational cultural diplomas and cultural industries in the context of development.
The previous elements that Turkey has enrolled in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the UNESCO People; (2008), Mevlevi Sema Ceremonies (2009), Karagöz (2009), Nevruz (joint file with Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan - 2009), Traditional Conversation Meetings (Yaren, (2011), Mesir Macunu Festival (2012), Turkish Coffee and Tradition (2013) and Ebru (2010), which were held in the same year in the same year, with the participation of the Alevi-Bektashi Ritual Semah (2010), Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling Festival Turkish Paper Decoration Art (2014).
