On May 9, 2017, led by Ekrem Demirtas,Board Chairman of the Turkish Izmir University of Economics, delegation of Turkish Izmir University of Economics and Izmir Chamber of Commerce visited Shanghai International Studies University (SISU). Cao Deming, president of the SISU met with the delegation and sighed Intercollegiate Memorandum of Cooperation. Management staff from Department of Oriental Languages, the Middle East Studies Institute (MESI) and Department of International Communication, etc., joined the meeting. Sun Degang, deputy director of the MESI attended the meeting and the signing ceremony on behalf of the Middle East Studies Institute, and conveyed the greetings from the MESI president Liu Zhongmin.