President awarded title of Honorable Doctor of Okan University

In the course of the meeting Nursultan Nazarbayev has been awarded the title of Honorable Doctor of the Okan University. "The title was given to the Kazakh President for his personal contribution to the development of friendship and cooperation between Turkey and Kazakhstan, ensuring peace on the Eurasian space and hard work on enhancing Kazakhstan economy", President of the University's  Board of Trustees Bekir Okan said.

According to B. Okan, excellent students of the university will be awarded N. Nazarbayev's scholarships.

In turn, the Kazakh Leader said he would give a lecture at the Okan University next time and noted B. Okan's role who was among the first to invest in Kazakhstan and construction of Astana.  

The Okan university was founded in 1999 by the Okan Foundation of Culture, Education and Sport