Koç and Harvard meet at Ayvalik

Koç University cooperated with Harvard University, the leading educational institution of the United States. Each summer, The Summer School of  “Ottoman-Turkish Language” for one and a half month, which was supported by Harvard University, has also a Turkish supporter this year(2000), Koç University.

The Summer School whose founder is Prof.Şinasi Tekin, a professor at Harvard for 28 years and a leading Turcologist, and whose aim is to facilitate to teach “Ottoman-Turkish Language” comprehensively to the students of M.S. in Turcology around the U.S. has been teaching for 4 years in Türkiye, but has had some problems about scholarships. At the beginning of this year, scholarships’ problem had been passed over by a protocol signed between Koç and Harvard. According to the protocol, Koç University has supported many of the scholarships. Also, Koç University will construct a library and guesthouse near the building of summer school.