Gullu Yologlu

Yologlu moved to Janalli, to her father’s homeland with her parents when she was 3.

Gullu Yologlu would constantly visit Moldova and conduct research on the Moldovan-Romanians and Gagauz Turks starting from her undergraduate years. She described Azerbaijani-Gagauz literary ties in the second chapter of her graduation paper on Azerbaijan-Moldova literary relations. The second chapter of Yologlu’s thesis which she defended in 1992 titled “Azerbaijan-Moldova literary relations” in which she had developed her research on the Gagauz people.

She defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Ceremonies of Turkic Peoples (historical-ethnographic study on the basis of Tuva, Khakas and Gagauz Turks’ materials)” in 2006.

Gullu Yologlu has been member of the Journalists’ Union of Azerbaijan since 1992 and Writer’s Union of Azerbaijan since 1996. In 1998, she was elected as an associate member of the Ataturk Cultural Center in Ankara, Turkey. Suleyman Demirel, the then President of Turkey, presented a diploma to Yologlu in the conference hall of TIKA (Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency).

Gullu Yologlu is the Chairperson of the World Turkology Center founded on October 3, 2019 in Baku.

In her book “Gagauz Folklore”, Gullu Yologlu has included Gagauz Turks’ folklore materials which she had collected during her visits to Moldova and translated into Azerbaijani with a large introduction. Presented materials describe the Gagauz people’s deportation to southern areas of Moldova from the Balkans during Russian-Ottoman wars and anti-Turkish policies and efforts to separate the people from its roots.

3. Dada Gorgud’s Age (Dədə Qorqud yaşı). - Baku, “Yeni Nashrlar evi”, 1999, 136 p.

1. The Gagauz People (Qaqauzlar). – Baku, “Azarnashr”, 1996 48 p.

4. Family Rituals of the Turks (based on the ethnographic materials of the Tuva, Khakas and Gagauz Turks) (Türklerin aile merasimleri (tıva, xakas, qaqauz türklərinin etnoqrafik materialları əsasında)). – Ankara (Turkey), 1999, 180 p.

5. The First Letter (translations from Romanian literature) ("İlk məktub" (Rumıniya ədəbiyyatından tərcümələr)). – Baku, “Adiloghlu”, 2002, 258 p.

6. Seasonal Ceremonies (on the basis of materials of the Turkic peoples) ("Mövsüm mərasimləri" (türk xalqlarının materialları əsasında)). – Baku, “Khazar University”, 2009, 218 p.

In 1998, shortly after her speech at the 10th Assembly of Azerbaijani Writers Yologlu was awarded with an individual scholarship by Heydar Aliyev, the then President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. She was declared “The Most Diligent Scholar of the Year” by “Simourg” International Award Foundation in 2001. She was awarded with “Award of Service of 2002” by KIBATEK (Cyprus, the Balkans, Institute of Eurasian Studies) in 2003.

2. Gagauz Folklore (Qaqouz folkloru). - Baku, “Yazichi”, 1996, 200 p.

Finishing school named after Samad Vurgun with excellent marks in Gazakh in 1980, Yologlu enrolled in the Institute of the Russian Language and Literature named after Mirza Fatali Akhundov (at present Baku Slavic University) by passing exams successfully in the same year and graduated in 1985. She interned at Astrakhan Pedagogical State University (Russia) during 1983-1984.

Gullu Yologlu Mammadli was born into a family of teachers, in Mesha-oba (Mesha Shambul) village (which is in Balakan district at present) in Zagatala district of Azerbaijan in May 5, 1963, although her origins come from Janalli village of Gazakh district. Her father Yologlu Kamil Gulmammadov who became a history-literature teacher after graduating from Ganja Pedagogical Institute and her mother Nahida Mahmud Bayramova, a physics-math teacher, worked in Zagatala.