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"The University of Central Asia (UCA) was founded in 2000. The
presidents of Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Kazakhstan and His
Highness the Aga Khan signed the International Treaty and Charter
establishing this secular, not-for-profit, private university that was
ratified by the respective parliaments and registered with the United
Nations."
Sources: http://www.ucentralasia.org/About/Index#uca and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Central_Asia
Its flag is the logo (http://www.ucentralasia.org/Content/img/uca_blue.png ) over a white
horizontal flag as seen here (first flag from left to right):
http://www.akdn.org/...g655202.jpg
(source: http://www.akdn.org/...)
For additional information go to
UCA (official website) - http://www.ucentralasia.org/
Esteban Rivera, 17 April 2017
"The International University of Central Asia was established in 2008". Source: <>a href="http://www.iuca.kg/ru/istoriya-muca">http://www.iuca.kg/ru/istoriya-muca.
The flag is a horizontal flag with the logo (http://www.iuca.kg/...) as seen here:
http://www.iuca.kg/...img.jpg (source: http://www.iuca.kg/).
For additional information go to IUCA (official website) - http://www.iuca.kg/
Esteban Rivera, 18 April 2017
![[Ala-Too University flag]](../images/k/kg_aiu.gif)
by Ivan Sache
Ala-Too International University (AIU) was established in 1996 in Bishkek by a cooperative educational agreement signed between the
Ministry of Education and Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Sapat Educational Organization.
AIU is composed of 4 Faculties (Economics and Administrative Sciences, Social Sciences, New Technologies, and Medicine).
The university's namesake is Kyrgyz Ala-Too, a mountain range that spreads over Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Bishkek's central square, established in 1984 as Lenin Square, was
renamed to Ala-Too square in 1991. The square was a main site of the March 2005 Tulip Revolution, which resulted in the resignation and exile
of President Askar Askayev.
AIU was originally known as International Atatürk-Alatoo University (IAAU), founded by the Sebat Educational Organization. an academic
organization inspired by Fethullah Gülen.
In the aftermath of the aborted coup of 15 June 2016 in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put pressure on Kyrgyzstan to close down
the 36 educational institutes operated by Sebat - as was done with 15 Turkish universities for alleged links with the Fethullahist
Terrorist Organization (FETÖ, the name given to the Gülen movement by the Turkish government).
Kyrgyzstan did not comply with Turkey's demand, renaming Sebat to Sapat and the university to AIU.
[The Irish Times, 5 August 2016]
The flag of AIU is white with the university's emblem.
Sources:
AIU website
Photos
http://www.iaau.edu.kg/...
Ivan Sache, 7 June 2018
![[Manas university flag]](../images/k/kg_ktmu.gif)
by Ivan Sache
The university's namesake is the Kyrgyz epic "Manas". The monumental epic Manas is the most treasured expression of the
national heritage of the Kyrgyz people. Composed and sung entirely in
oral form by various singers throughout the centuries, Manas is regarded as the epitome of oral creativity.
Today there are about sixty versions of the epic Manas recorded from
various epic singers and oral poets. Its longest version, consisting of half a million (500553) poetic lines, was written down from one of the
last master-manaschi (singers of Manas) Saiakbai Karalaev (1894-1971).
The epic is indeed unique in its size. It is twenty times longer than
the Homeric epics Iliad (15693) and Odyssey (12110) taken together and
two and a half times the length of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
The epic Manas is a trilogy, "a biographical cycle of three generations
of heroes, i.e., Manas, his son Semetei and grandson Seitek."
Manas website (with translations), by Elmira Kocumkulkizi
The flag of KTMU is white with the university's emblem.
Sources:
KTMU website
Photos
http://students.manas.edu.kg/index.php?r=site/article&id=55&lang=ky
http://iro.manas.edu.kg/?r=site/newsarticle&artid=153
http://educationinturkey.org/en/video/6664/Prof-Dr-Sebahattin-Balci.html
http://www.turkkon.org/en-US/the-third-assembly-of-the-turkic-university-union-was-held-in-bishkek/301/352/4680
Ivan Sache, 7 June 2018
