Ahmet Yassawi University

Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University
Қожа Ахмет Ясауи атындағы Халықаралық қазақ-түрік университеті
Established1991
RectorZhanar Temirbekova
Students10,000
Location
Turkistan
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Kazakhstan
Websiteayu.edu.kz

The Qoja Ahmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, or simply Ahmet Yassawi University (Kazakh: Ахмет Ясауи университеті, Ahmet İasaui universitetı; Turkish: Ahmet Yesevi Üniversitesi) is a university in the city of Turkistan in Kazakhstan, named for the twelfth-century Sufi poet Khoja Akhmet Yassawi. Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University (Akhmet Yassawi University) established in 1991 on the personal initiative of the President Nursultan Nazarbayev and based on the Intergovernmental Agreement between Kazakhstan and Turkey to train modern highly qualified specialists from young Turkic-speaking countries, the spiritual center of the Turkic world – Turkestan and is the first university that received the status of an international institution of higher education.

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