The international students who participated in the “Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language” program organized jointly by the Yunus Emre Institute and Hacettepe University have obtained their certificates.   

This was the 38^th “Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language” program organized by the Yunus Emre Institute. Its participants were postgraduate students studying Turkish in Turkey as beneficiaries of Turkey Scholarships provided by the Presidency of Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB).    

The program was organized between 28 May-22 June 2018 at the Beytepe campus of Hacettepe University in cooperation with Hacattepe University’s Turkish and Foreign Language Teaching Practice and Research Center (TOMER).  27 students making post graduate or doctoral studies in the departments of  Turkish Language and  Literature, Turkish Language and Literature Teaching, Turkology, (Contemporary) Turkish Dialects and Turkish Teaching participated in the program.     

Journey from human to human

Speaking about the program, President of the Yunus Emre Institute said that the program is not only about language teaching, but also about a journey from human to human. He said they saw foreign students as members of the family of the Yunus Emre Institute, adding “We need our students from all parts of the world in our centers whose number continues to increase. That’s why we wish them to be employees or voluntaries of the Yunus Emre Institute”.       

17 of the 27 YTB Scholars who participated in the program are master students while the other 10 are doctoral students. They come from the following 19  countries:  Yemen, Bosna-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Macedonia, Iran, Romania, Ukraine,  Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Syria, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Iraq, Jordan, China, Azerbaijan and Egypt.