It would be easy to dismiss this as a load of old politicised garbage …

Astana. November 5. KAZINFORM. 5-9 November Turkey Minister of National Education Hussein Chelik will visit the Republic of Kazakhstan, our correspondent has been told in the press service of the Education Ministry of Kazakhstan.

In the course of the visit it is planned to sign the Agreement on cooperation and in the sphere of education between the ministries of the two states. In Astana the Turkish Minister will visit some educational institutions, such as the Kazakh-Turkish High School, Kazakh Gymnasium # 38 and the Gumilyev Eurasian National University.

Besides, in Turkistan the guest will study the activity of the International Kazakh-Turkish University named after Yassavi.

… and I'm sure that a lot of it is just that. This could, of course, just be a taxpayer funded holiday for a bunch of parasites. At best it is an accurately recycled government press release.

However, we live in a world where the cooperation being suggested here is now a lot easier for actual people, as opposed to politicians, to do for real and to make good use of. So if there are people at both ends of this deal who want this stuff to work, then it might. I wish them luck. And if the politicians are merely trying to get the process of them not interrupting organised, then well done them too.