The
Turkish Ambassador Shakir Ozkan Torunlar- the Turkish Ambassador for the
Palestinian National Authority- visited the IUG on Wednesday 12th of September2012.
Eng.
Jamal N. Al Khodari- IUG Chairman of Board of Trustees, accompanied with Dr.
Kamalain K. Sha’ath- IUG President, received the Turkish Ambassador.
Mr.
Torunlar confirmed on the importance of services offered by the university in
scientific and research fields, which has a great role in overall development
process that serve the Palestinian community.
Mr.
Torunlar took a tour around the latest two projects; including: Al-Saddaqa
Turkish Palestinian Hospital and Irada Project. Al-Saddaqa hospital will offer
a medical city for the IUG Faculty of Medicine students in addition to being a
home for Palestinian medical care.
Deputy Al
Khodari appreciated the great support offered by Turkey to help Palestinians
and he also thanked His Excellency Mr. Tayyip Erdogan- the Prime Minister of
Turkey-for his support to Palestinians, also he thanked all Turkish
institutions and the Turkish development and cooperation institution “TEKA” for
its infinite support to IUG.
Dr.
Sha’ath briefed about the academic development of the university pointing at
the academic services offered by the university talking about university
projects in the future: the city of engineering and technological sciences and
the University hospital.
