General Assembly of the Turkic University Union held in Turkistan

The Fifth General Assembly of the Turkic University Union of the Turkic Council was hosted by Kazakh-Turkish International Khoja Ahmed Yassawi University, in its capacity as the current Chair University, on 26 October 2021 in the city of Turkistan, the Spiritual Capital of the Turkic World.

The General Assembly was attended by 23 member and observer university rectors, vice-rectors from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Hungary as well as the representatives of the member universities.

At the opening session General Secretary General Bagdad Amreyev emphasized the importance of education and science on the agenda of the Turkic Council and shared with tge participants the current undertakings of the Secretariat in this field.

B. Amreyev referred to the decisions of the 7th Summit of the Turkic Council that took place in Baku on 15 October 2019, during which the Heads of State supported the enlargement of the “Orkhun Exchange Program”.

On the margins of the Fifth General Assembly, bilateral Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed between the Chair Ahmed Yassawi University and Kyrgyz-Uzbek International University named after Batyrali Sydykov of Kyrgyzstan, Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies and Kokand University of Uzbekistan.