Minister Avcı attends Turkish-Turkmen Council Meeting  
Minister Avcı attends Turkish-Turkmen Council Meeting

Minister Avcı attends Turkish-Turkmen Council Meeting

Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı attended the intergovernmental Turkish-Turkmen Council Meeting regarding cooperation between the two countries in the field of education.

Minister Avcı attends Turkish-Turkmen Council Meeting

Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı attended the meeting with Turkmenistan’s Science Minister Purli Agamiradov.

At the meeting held in the Belek district of the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya Minister Avcı congratulated Turkmen Minister Agamiradov for his new post and voiced his pleasure of hosting the visiting delegation in Turkey.

Minister Avcı recalled that according to the agreement signed between the Republic of Turkey and the Turkmenistan Government on August 15, 2014 in the Türkmenbaşı city of Turkmenistan the International Turkmen Turkish University, Joint Turkmen Turkish School and the Intergovernmental Turkish-Turkmen Council were to be established.

Minister Avcı said “After this agreement on November 7, 2014 we signed a protocol in Ashkhabad on cooperation in the fields of education where we set up the Intergovernmental Turkish Turkmen Council and the statute of the council. So we are here holding our first meeting. With the will of Allah we will hopefully discuss our current activities and we will finalize the documents on the Intergovernmental Turkish Turkmen Council and the Joint Turkmen Turkish School. Thus we will start the new school having reached an agreement on all the outstanding issues.”

 

Teachers have been assigned from Turkey 

Minister Avcı explained the activities undertaken within the framework of the agreement made with Turkmenistan and went on to say “we assigned 10 teachers from Turkey to the International Turkmen Turkish University in the 2014-2015 academic year thanks to the assistance by TİKA. After signing the agreement on the university we will be sending academicians to the university this year as well. As you know we also drafted the agreement for the establishment of the International Turkmen Turkish University and its statute and presented the draft to you. Your responses to the draft reached us and we discussed the issue at length. In our discussions with the Higher Education Council of Turkey we were told the agreement we signed on August 15, 2014 in the Türkmenbaşı city of Turkmenistan on the educational cooperation agreement between the Turkish Republic and the Turkmenistan Government we were told there were clauses in the agreement on the financial issues and the establishment of the university so a separate agreement to set up the university was not needed and that an application agreement was legally sufficient. So if we agree  to day on the application agreement which will go into effect much quicker than an agreement to establish the university we will be able to put into force with no delay.”

The Minister went on to say “in 1992 we signed an cooperation protocol with the Turkmenistan Science and Culture Ministry that allowed our schools to function until now after they were set up in the 1993-1994 school year. A new agreement on their activities and functions were prepared by you and sent to us. As you know our Ministry runs a primary school, a secondary school, a Turkish Anatolian High School and a Turkish teaching center in Turkmenistan. In our schools 328 students learn Turkish at the language center, 500 attend the schools and 71 teachers serve in these schools. These schools have been established above all for the children of Turkish living and serving in Turkmenistan. However, in the case of availability we also accept children of other countries and Turkmenistan citizens.” 

  

“The schools served to build new bridges”

The minister said the Turkish schools in Turkmenistan serve to strengthen friendship between the two countries adding “our schools that have been serving for the past 22 years has helped to tighten friendly ties between turkey and Turkmenistan and have become institutions that serve as new bridges.  We see with pleasure that in the draft agreements prepared between the two sides there is a general agreement on major issues with some differences on minor issues. We thank the officials of Turkmenistan who have been working to speed up the process and help the development of relations.” 

After his speech Minister Avcı tanked the participants and said he hopes the meeting will produce positive results.

Turkmenistan Minister of Science Purli Agamiradov voiced his pleasure of being in Turkey and said “we want to further expand our ties in the field of science and education. That is why we will hold meetings here.” 

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