All you need to know about education in Turkey

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Alternatively, you can search for specific educational topics, institutions and more in Turkey in our databases.
A selection of websites from our database is provided below concerning the following topics:
- Springe zu: Overviews of the education system in Turkey
- Springe zu: Educational reports on and education statistics for Turkey
You will find further websites and literature on Turkey here:
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- Literature on Turkey
(German Education Research Portal)
Overviews of the education system in Turkey
Profiles Enhancing Education Reviews (PEER) - Unesco Education Profiles 
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The PEER portal is obviously the successor to the earlier Unesco Country Dossiers (see the Internet Archive). [...]
Eurydice National Education Systems: Turkey 
Turkey
Eurydice is the "Network on education systems and policies in Europe". Amongst others, it provides very comprehensive country profiles on on education systems in Europe (formerly know as "Eurypedia"). All areas of education are covered from early childhood to adult education, as well as overarching issues. Each country participating in [...]
Our publications - Ministry of National Education, Turkey [courtesy translation] 
Turkey
The Turkish Ministry of Education (‘Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı’) offers a list of its publications here. Under ‘Performans Programlari’ (Performance Programmes) you can find the education reports (‘Yili Performans Programi’ - annual performance programmes) from 2011 onwards, which are unfortunately only [...]
Educational reports on and education statistics for Turkey
Eurydice (National Education Systems, Comparative Reports, Interactive Publications) 
Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus, Republic of; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Switzerland; Greece [...]
Eurydice (formerly Eurypedia and Eurybase) is a network of national units based in all countries of the Erasmus+ programme. [Its] task is to explain how education systems are organised in Europe and how they [...]
Ministry of National Education / Turkey 
Turkey
This homepage is subdivided into the following parts: organization of the ministry, services for teachers and students, history of education policy in Turkey, qualitative developments in education, the educational system, objectives and strategies of education policy, management and inspection of the educational organisation, [...]
Profiles Enhancing Education Reviews (PEER) - Unesco Education Profiles 
Egypt; Ethiopia; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium [...]
The PEER portal is obviously the successor to the earlier Unesco Country Dossiers (see the Internet Archive). [...]
International Human Development Indicators - Country Profiles 
international; Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Armenia; Australia [...]
This page provides a country list with fact sheets on the Human Development Index (HDI). The index focuses on three measurable dimensions of human development: health, education and standard of living. The fact sheets are [...]
UNICEF Turkey: The Girls' Education Campaign 
Turkey
The web site portrays the Girls' Education campaign the Ministry of Education and UNICEF launched in June 2003 in order to augment the number of girls enrolled in primary schools in the Eastern provinces of Turkey. The site lists figures proving a gap between boys ' and girls' enrolment in primary schools, and barriers to girl [...]
Eurydice National Education Systems: Turkey 
Turkey
Eurydice is the "Network on education systems and policies in Europe". Amongst others, it provides very comprehensive country profiles on on education systems in Europe (formerly know as "Eurypedia"). All areas of education are covered from early childhood to adult education, as well as overarching issues. Each country participating in [...]
Education Encyclopedia: Global Education Reference 
Yemen; Sudan; Suriname; Zambia; Eswatini; Eswatini; Zimbabwe; Sweden; Switzerland; Syria; Taiwan; Tajikistan; Tanzania [...]
The site of the US American Directory of State Universities offers an online encyclopedia on education. The chapter "Global Education References" delivers statistical data and texts on education systems in different [...]
Turkish Statistical Institute 
Turkey
The Turkish Statistical Institute offers numerous data and publications on all important subject areas. The website also contains a database that enables users to compile data of their own choice.
Education Statistiks (Turkey) 
Turkey
The website offers data tables on formal education, non-formal education and education expenditures. Some of the publications are available as full texts.
Our publications - Ministry of National Education, Turkey [courtesy translation] 
Turkey
The Turkish Ministry of Education (‘Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı’) offers a list of its publications here. Under ‘Performans Programlari’ (Performance Programmes) you can find the education reports (‘Yili Performans Programi’ - annual performance programmes) from 2011 onwards, which are unfortunately only [...]
Educational Research in Turkey
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