Turkish Government offers scholarships for Research and Turkish Language Summer Courses. Research programs are open to those who want to make a scientific research in his/her particular subject area in a university.  Research duration is between 2-8 months.

Turkish Language Summer Courses are organized in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa, Kayseri, Antalya and Samsun. Applicants can choose three provinces among them. Courses are not organized in provinces that have no adequate number of applicants. Course dates are from July 1st to August 31st.

School fees, dorm fees and medical treatment expenditures (excluding long term illnesses, serious surgical operations, prosthesis, jaw orthopaedics, orthodontics and teeth prosthesis) are paid by the Turkish Government.

Monthly payment for graduate studies, research or Turkish Language Summer Course is TL 220, and TL 195 for undergraduate studies. Travel expenses and cost of meals are to be covered by the student.

ELIGIBILITY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

•  Applicants should not be a citizen of the Republic of Turkey or hold a dual nationality (Turkish and any other country’s nationality).
• Candidates for graduate studies (Master/PhD) should be a graduate of a 4-year university and not be older than 40 years on the date of application.
• Research candidates should be a graduate of a 4-year university and have a good level of Turkish, English or French.
• Candidates for the Turkish Language Summer Courses should be a university student or a graduate student.
• Candidates should not be infected with a contagious disease (HIV, Hepatitis-C and etc) or should not have a disease preventing his/her education in Turkey. 

•  Four photocopies of Scholarship Application Form (each copies should be filled out legibly and be presented with a passport-size photo attached)
•  Two photocopies of diploma (the original diploma should be brought to Turkey if accepted to the scholarship program)
•  Two photocopies of the transcript
•  Two photocopies of Curriculum Vitae
•  Two Letters of Recommendation (from two Professors)
•  Two photocopies of research proposal (should be related with the planned research)
•  Health report
•  One passport-size photograph
•  Photocopy of the page in passport that carry your photograph and any other pages that are filled in or stamped officially.
• Documents numbered 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 shall either be in English or Turkish or French. Documents issued in another language should be translated into one of these three languages.
• Photocopies and translations of documents shall be validated by the overseas Embassies/ Consulates of the Republic of Turkey.
• Required documents should be submitted in two separate files same as one another.

Turkish Language Summer Courses Applicants 

•  Scholarship Application Form (should be filled out legibly and be presented with a passport-size photo attached)
•  Photocopy of diploma (the original diploma should be brought to Turkey if accepted to the scholarship program)
•  Health report
•  One passport-size photograph
• Photocopy of the page in passport that carry your photograph and any other pages that are filled in or stamped officially.
• Documents numbered 2 and 3 shall either be in English or Turkish or French. Documents issued in another language should be translated into one of these three languages.
• Photocopies and translations of documents shall be validated by the overseas Embassies/ Consulates of the Republic of Turkey.
• Required documents should be submitted in a single file.

For more detail information: 

 http://digm.meb.gov.tr

 http://digm.meb.gov.tr/burslar/BURS_IC/2009_scholarship_en.html

Contact Person:

Tamar Mghebrishvili, Chief Specialist

Ministry of Education and Science

Tel.:8 32 43 88 79 Mob.: 877 175 536

E-mail: tamarmerabishvili@rambler.ru