A meeting was held for the planned cooperation between Bursa Uludağ University Turkish Language Teaching Application and Research Center (ULUTÖMER) and Samarkand State University of Foreign Languages in Uzbekistan. 

A meeting was held between the two institutions to sign a protocol for teaching Turkish. The meeting was attended by Director Prof. Dr. Fatih Demirel and  Deputy Director Lecturer Erdem Hamaratlı of BUU ULUTÖMER, also Head of Near Eastern Languages Department Qurbonov Bobur Chorshanbiyevich, International Relations Unit Coordinator Bahodir Berdialiev, International Relations Unit Manager Mirzakulov Anvar Choriyevic and Turkish instructors from Samarkand State University of Foreign Languages attended the meeting. In addition, Bursa Uludağ University Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ozan İpek, who is currently working as a guest lecturer in Uzbekistan, also took part in the meeting.

During the meeting, the importance of sharing knowledge and experience in the field of Turkish language teaching between two sister countries and sister institutions was emphasized. In this context, it was brought to the agenda that mutual student and lecturer mobility could also be realized. The meeting was concluded with the wish to organize mutual visits as soon as possible.