Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the implementation of Turkish foreign policies and the government support as the key drivers of promoting international students to study in Turkey. As a way of internationalization of higher education, the study also reviewed the recent development of migration policies and the Grand Student Projects Support as related to the trends of international student movement in Turkey as compared to the other countries in the world. In this literature review article, a search for required and reliable source of information has been made with regard to the subject area using computer and electronic databases; Organization for Co-operation and Development (OECD), Routledge, SAGE, Council of Higher Education of Turkey (CoHE) and The Ministry of National Education of Turkey (MoNE), UNESCO Institution for statistics, Turkish National Education Statistics and other reliable sources. The study findings indicate that the Turkish government and higher education institutions (HEIs) continue to recognize the importance of international students as their number increased more doubled than in the past two decades. The growing number of international students studying in Turkey has largely been driven by the Turkish scholarship initiative programs and migration policy reforms. Further, student immigration plays major role in strengthening peace friendly and the tie between Turkey and other nations by demonstrating the educational and cultural interest.
Highlights
The Republic of Turkey pursues a dynamic foreign policy with a view of direction-finding the development in a positive way through international strategies, which sought to promote Turkey’s international relations, global profile and international competitiveness in a region where the impacts of global changes with regard to the internationalization of higher education and cultural interest are great
"International students” defined as the mobile students who have physically crosses an international border between two countries with the purpose of participating in educational activities in the country of destination, where the country of destination for students is different from their country of origin (Chapman & Chien, 2014; OECD, 2016))
The following topics were discussed: the foreign policy with regard to the international bilateral agreements in academic frameworks, history and trends related to international students studying in the Turkish universities; impact of international students on developing international relations between Turkey and international students’ home countries in the world
Summary
The Republic of Turkey pursues a dynamic foreign policy with a view of direction-finding the development in a positive way through international strategies, which sought to promote Turkey’s international relations, global profile and international competitiveness in a region where the impacts of global changes with regard to the internationalization of higher education and cultural interest are great. Once a barometer of both university internationalization and presence of international students is a core part of the Turkish government bodies such as the Ministry of National Education (MoNE), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Prime Minister of the Presidency of Turk Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) for the leading support of higher education internationalization and welcoming students and academic researcher from overseas. The term international students can be defined as those students who have crossed borders for the purpose of study. "International students” defined as the mobile students who have physically crosses an international border between two countries with the purpose of participating in educational activities in the country of destination, where the country of destination for students is different from their country of origin (Chapman & Chien, 2014; OECD, 2016)).
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