The III International Altai Communities Symposium was held on July 18-19, 2011, hosted by the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul University and Plato University of Management and Design. Around 100 academics from Turkey, the Republic of Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, and the Russian Federation participated in the symposium, where presentations on the topics of “the history and origins of the Altai peoples, migrations, culture, language, and literature” were made.