Turkish contributions to American medicine, engineering, cinema, music, social science and humanities are evident. Many prominent contributors have studied in the reading rooms and laboratories of the University. The mural and the room reinforce these bonds of friendship, a friendship based on equality, not on power or domination. Each respects the other without losing the distinctions of the self. Friendship between countries is of a different order from that between individuals.
States bear arms, enter into treaties and alliances and so on.
The panels suggest an ideal of friendship in which equality and peace really do exist.