On May 26, a round table on "Ahmed Bey Agaoglu, devotee of the country of free people" was organized by the department of literature of Azerbaijan and foreign countries of the faculty of Philology of SSU.

The deputy dean of the faculty of Philology, senior lecturer Gara Ahmadov, who opened the event with an introductory speech, said that the round table was implemented based on the plan of events related to the declaration of the city of Shusha as the "cultural capital of the Turkic world" for 2023. He noted that Ahmet bey Agaoglu, who was born in Shusha, was a great social and political figure, intellectual, journalist, educator, politician, writer and a true patriot. He actively participated in social and political processes in Azerbaijan and outside the country, always stood in the forefront of the national awakening movement, and at the same time, he was recognized as a consistent supporter of the policy of modernization in the Muslim East. Ahmed bey Agaoglu was one of the founders of the Law faculty of Ankara University, as well as created the "Difai" organization to fight against the tsarist government and Dashnak Armenians in our country.

Doctor of philosophy in Philology Ilaha Valiyeva spoke about the high value given to women in the socio-political activities of Ahmed bey Agaoglu and said that the prominent thinker who spread the ideas of women's freedom and showed it as the main factor of the freedom struggle was one of the first intellectuals to call for equal rights for women. Ahmed bey Agaoglu considered  female lag  and the alphabet used at that time to be the two main enemies and incurable wounds of the Muslim world. At the same time, Ahmed bey's ideas of Turkism became the main direction of his activity in that period.

Speaking about the national conflict in the Caucasus in 1905-1906 and the activities of Ahmad bey Agaoglu, the teacher of the faculty, Madina Jabbarova, said that he had a great important role  to the implementation of national awakening in Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 20th century.

Later, students Reyhan Amanli and Narmina Atakishiyeva made a speech on the activities of Ahmed bey Agaoglu in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the attitude of the thinker to Western literature.

In the end, different questions of the students were answered.