This report gives an account of an international workshop organized at the University of Mainz in March 2016 on the occasion of the incorporation of the Department of Oriental Studies (Seminar für Orientkunde) into the newly established Department of Slavistics, Turcology and Circum-Baltic Studies. The workshop also commemorated the 80th birthday of Lars Johanson, professor of Turcology at the University of Mainz. All of the more than fifty participants had some relation to the Turcology in Mainz, as former doctoral students, research fellows, or project participants.