The Qoja Ahmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, or simply Ahmet Yassawi University (, ''Ahmet İasaui universitetı''; ) is a university in the city of Turkistan in

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, named for the twelfth-century

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poet

Khoja Akhmet Yassawi Ahmad Yasawi (, ; ; 1093–1166) was a Turkic peoples, Turkic poet and Sufism, Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of tariqa, Sufi orders throughout the Turkic languages, Turkic-speaking world. Yasawi is the ...

. Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University (Akhmet Yassawi University) established in 1991 on the personal initiative of the President

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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. On 31 October 1992, the governments of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Turkey signed the Agreement on the Reorganization of the University into Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University. The university’s multi-level education system includes: higher basic education (undergraduate), internship, magistracy, residency and doctoral studies. Admission to the university is carried out on state and Turkish educational grants and on a contractual basis. The University is a member of the

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*Website
www.ayu.edu.kz
{{authority control Universities and colleges established in 1991 1991 establishments in Kazakhstan Ahmet Yesevi University

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