Nowadays, "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage established partnership relations with a number of prestigious universities in Turkey. As a result of these cooperative relations, a number of agreements have been concluded on exchange of students and teachers, professional development of professors and sending them for short-term and long-term internships, creation of joint projects, academic and scientific programmes, and practical work in this direction is in progress.

         Moreover, not only representatives of the educational sphere in Turkey, but also representatives of other spheres show interest in our university. A bright example of our opinion is the visit of a group of Turkish medical specialists to our university on 12 April of this year.

         Within the framework of measures to attract Turkish medical workers to the Republic and increase the tourist flow from this country, a group of 102 qualified doctors working in the system of the Ministry of Health of this country, together with Mehmet Nur, the head of "Doğu Turizm" tourism company, and Dr. Kayhan Altintaş, a radiologist, visited our country as tourists.

         Within the framework of the visit, the guests organised a meeting on mutual cooperation with the management of "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage. First Vice Rector of the university for Administrative Affairs D.Nasimov and Turkic scientist Professor J.Eltazarov welcomed the guests and familiarised them in detail with the work carried out at the university to train qualified specialists in the field of tourism.

         - I am very glad that our long-time dream to come to Uzbekistan and visit the modern university in Samarkand, which educates specialists in the field of tourism, has come true," said Turkish guest Dr Kaitan Altintash.

         The guests got acquainted with the National Gallery of Costumes about the Turkic world, an exhibition of paintings about the work of various famous artists organised at the university. The guests were also very impressed with the university library.