Türkiye Scholarships (Türkiye Bursları) - General Scholarship, full-time degree programmes
YTB (Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities), Republic of Türkiye
- Coverage
- Monthly stipend (official figures on the full-time programmes page): undergraduate 6,500 TL, master's 9,500 TL, PhD 13,000 TL; Merit Scholarship recipients get twice the stipend. Also tuition fee, accommodation, health insurance, a one-year Turkish language course, and a one-off flight ticket at the start of education and upon graduation (amounts for the non-stipend items not stated). Awardees without C1 Turkish take a one-year Turkish course and must attain C1 by the end of that academic year. A third-party source quoting 4,500/6,500/9,000 TL is out of date and not used.
- Deadline
- General Scholarship application period on the official calendar: 10 January - 20 February (the calendar page prints no year). The 2026 call ran 10 Jan - 20 Feb 2026 (the YTB-IsDB joint-programme announcement of 29 Jan 2026 gives these exact dates; a university notice confirms the 2026 general call). Further stages: evaluation March-April, interviews April-June, results early August, initial procedures August, transfer to Türkiye September. The 2027 call has not been announced as of 23 Oct 2026 (expected pattern: Jan-Feb 2027 - unconfirmed). 2025 call closed ~20-26 Feb 2025 (YTB notice dated 2/26/2025).
- Eligibility
- Citizens of all countries except Turkish citizens/former citizens; not currently enrolled in a Turkish university at the level applied for; graduates or those graduating before August of the application year. Age limits: associate/bachelor under 21, master's under 30, PhD under 35, research under 50. Minimum academic achievement: 70% associate/bachelor, 75% graduate, 90% medicine/dentistry/pharmacy. Many programmes are in Turkish; English programmes need an international language certificate; most English-taught programmes require international admission-test results. Application in 5 steps image on /applysteps could not be read as text.