The Future is in our hands!

Applications for the Fall Semester of 2018-2019 Academic Year are opened to the Cumhuriyet University in the framework of the Erasmus Plus Program Agreement signed between two Universities.

Second year students studying in Science and Engineering Faculties will be able to apply to the Erasmus Plus Program. Students who want to apply must bring to the International relations Office the TOEFL Certificate (AUCA Institutional TOEFL certificate is valid) and transkript in English signed and stamped by the Student Affairs Office.

Application requirements:

• The grade average is higher than 3.20

• Having more than 500 TOEFL scores in English

Applications should be made no later than 01.06.2018.

The Third General Assembly of the Turkic Universities Union (Union) was hosted by the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University (KTMU), the current Chairman-in-Office of the Union, on 19 April 2018 in Bishkek. 

Representatives from 14 member universities of the Union from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, delegates of the Student Council and officials of the Turkic Council Secretariat attended the Assembly. 

The Rector of the KTMU Prof. Sebahattin Balcı and Deputy Secretary General of the Turkic Council Dr. Ömer Kocaman moderated the discussions on the topics such as logo and website of the Union, the implementation of the Orkhun Exchange Program, criteria for the Union award and the Activity Report of the Union prepared by the Chairman-in-Office. 

In the course of the meeting, the parties agreed to consider the prospective cooperation with other universities in the scope of the international collaboration of the Union. The sides suggested that such partnerships would enhance the capacity of the Orkhun Exchange Program. 

Among the other important decisions taken at the meeting was the inclusion of the Department of Turkology to the pilot project of the Orkhun Exchange Program that started last year for the undergraduate students and academicians of Department of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Department of International Relations and Political Science.

The Activity Report included projects designed and carried out with the coordination of the KTMU during its chairmanship. It encompasses prominent endeavors such as the First Turkic Universities Union Sport Games, Tourism Guide of the Turkic World, the document briefing the relations among the member states over the last 25 years and the paper on the common citizenship education among the Turkic peoples. 

In the course of the meeting, the Student Council reported on its activities as well. 

The parties also reviewed the prospective actions of the Union in the upcoming period. Among other things, the central theme of the discussion was the transition of the chairmanship to the Khoja Akhmet Yassawi University of Kazakhstan. 

The parties also unanimously consented to organize an international symposium dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birthday of renowned Turkic writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. 

Towards the end of the session, the participants listened to the presentations of the candidate universities to the Union membership, after which the member universities decided on the selection of the applicants by using objective criteria and by means of vote. 

Thus, Azerbaijan University of Languages, Kh. Dosmukhamedov Atyrau State University of Kazakhstan and Osh State University of Kyrgyzstan joined the Union and became its new members.

On Aprıl 9, 2018 Rector of the Ardahan University Prof. Dr. Mehmet Biber and Erdal Aydoğmuş visited Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University and successfully renewed bilateral cooperation agreement and Mevlana Exchange program protocol.