Manas Forum 2022 has come to an end
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Manas Forum 2022, hosted by Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University, in partnership with Istanbul Ticaret University, Istanbul Aydın University and Ibn Haldun University, was held in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, was organized as an international conference under the theme of “Power Transition and Security in Asia” this year.
Many respected academicians from different parts of the world attended the conference. Six different sessions were held over a period of two days. At the opening ceremony, during which Manas University Rector Prof. Dr. Alpaslan Ceylan and Deputy Rector Prof. Dr. Asilbek Kulmırzayev gave the opening speeches, Prof. Dr. Serhat Burmaoğlu, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University, and Chairman of the Conference Organizing Committee, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Emin Erendor, gave detailed information about the Forum.
The keynote speeches of the conference were given by the Dean of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, Prof. Dr. Alpaslan Özerdem, and Director of Graduate Education Institute at Istanbul Aydın University, Prof. Dr. Kutay Karaca. Our Rector Prof. Dr. Yücel Oğurlu also took part in the international conference in the session entitled “Education in the Turkic World”. In the speech he made at the said session, Prof. Dr. Oğurlu underlined that Turkey and the Turkic republics should be in solidarity if the education is to develop in Central Asia, and cooperation between universities should increase.
In addition, Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations from our university, Assoc. Prof. Uğur Yasin Asal, Faculty Member Dr. Kamala Valiyeva from the Department of Political Science and International Relations, and Faculty Member Dr. Zebiniso Kamalova from the Department of Educational Sciences presented their scientific papers at the conference.
