Abstract
The article considers genre features of ancient Turkic written monuments. Studies, opinions and conclusions of scientists related to this genre have been analyzed. The definition of the genre of ancient Turkic monuments consists not only of the analysis of their artistic power and poetic value, but also the evaluation of the historical, strategic significance and the main ideological mission of these works. For more than a century, many historians, literary critics and linguists have been commenting on this problem from the scientific point of view. The article analyzes and compares the evidence of scientists who recognized this monument as poetry and prose, and provides examples and evidence from the text of the monuments. At the same time, the features of the main conclusions and arguments of K. Omiraliev’s research on this problem are considered and their scientific significance is revealed.