The Bilge Kagan Highway, whose foundation stone was laid in 2005 by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was opened by Hayati Yazıcı, State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister after its completion in October 2008. This will facilitate travel to the Orhun Monuments in Mongolia.

 Minister Hayati Yazıcı, State Minister Prof. Dr. Said Yazıcıoğlu, TİKA President Musa Kulaklıkaya and an accompanying delegation went to Mongolia to hold official talks. In the framework of this 3-day official visit, the opening ceremony for both the 46-km long Bilge Kagan Highway that connects Hoşo Saydam (where the Orkhon script monuments are found) with Karakurum and the Orkhun Museum were held at the same time.

 In his speech, Minister Yazıcı said that this was a very important occasion for making the Orkhun Monuments part of the world heritage. Mentioning that Turkish words emerged in these scripts for the first time, Yazıcı emphasized the importance of the monuments not only for the people of Turkey but for Turkish people living all over the world. Yazıcı, emphasized the importance of  the Highway and of the Museum; that this was a  reason to be proud of and he completed his words by quoting a sentence from the Orkhon Script  “unless the sky collapses on itself above, unless the land is devastated below, who can disrupt your country, your customs, your Turkish  nation?”

Minister Yazıcıoğlu, in his speech said that it will be easier to reach to the region surrounding the monuments and the museum will be made available to the public as much as possible, thanks to the Highway. Yazıcıoğlu stated that TİKA is very active in every region that has a Turkish population, his words  stated that “our aim is to help our consanguines in every part of the world that has a Turkish population and to make the artifacts created by our ancestors part of the world heritage”.

 Sambuu Lamba, Ministry of Health of Mongolia, said the visit of the Turkish delegation is an important one, that it would develop bilateral relations and he continued by expressing that “our ancestors lived side by side in this region that reveals breadth and depth of a culture and  that the Orkhun Monuments is a proof of this.”

 At the end of the ceremony, both the Turkish Ministers Yazıcı and Yazıcıoğlu and the Mongolian Minister Lamba visited the Museum and walked on the Highway.