On April 20, 2018, Prof. Yang Jiemian, chair of SIIS Academic Affairs Council met with Dr. Numan Kurtulmuş, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey and his colleagues. The two sides had a discussion on China-Turkey relations etc. Turkish ambassador to China Abdulkadir Emin Önen, Turkish Consul General in Shanghai Sabri Tunc Angılı, Prof. Jin Liangxiang and Ms. Liu Xin from the center for West Asian and African Studies of SIIS also participated in the meeting.