About

MAYATEPEK takes its name from the Turkish ambassador to Mexico, Hasan Tahsin Mayatepek, who held the post between 1935 and 1938. While in Mexico, Mayatepek studied the linguistic similarities between Turkish and Mayan, based on words such as tepe (Turkish) and tepek (Mayan), both of which translates as “hill”. Based on these connections, he postulated the idea of a common ancestor between the two cultures.

For MAYATEPEK, Slavs and Tatars conceived works that explore the common heritage —speculative or real— between the indigenous peoples of Central America and the Turkic peoples. The …