On October 30 and 31, 2023, the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology - BAS held a scholarly conference Turkish modernity - political, social and cultural dimensions, 19th-20th centuries". The occasion for the event was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey on October 29, 1923. At the scholarly forum, reports were presented by 17 scholars from the Institute of Balkan Studies - BAS, the Institute for Historical Studies - BAS, SU "St. Kliment Ohridski", Plovdiv University, UNIBIT and other academic institutions. Topics related to Ottoman modernization, the birth of the modern Turkish state, political, migration and cultural processes from the history and modernity of the modern Turkish state were discussed.

The scholarly forum summarized the achievements of the Institute of Balkan Studies, which are the result of the long-term academic endeavors of specialists in Balkan studies, Ottoman history and modern Turkey, and those of scholars from the above-mentioned academic institutions. The research of the scholars of the Institute will continue in the coming years, especially in the context of the upcoming 2025 centenary of the signing of the Ankara Treaty between Bulgaria and the Republic of Turkey and its ratification in 1926, after which Bulgarian-Turkish diplomatic relations were established, maintaining by the two states without interruption to this day.