At a glance
Turkey offers Pakistani students two ways in: the fully funded Türkiye Scholarships programme, which also places you at a university, or direct admission as a self-funded student. Either way you enter on a student visa and then apply for a student residence permit — the ikamet — once you arrive.
The visa is rarely the hard part. The decisions that matter come earlier: whether you win a scholarship in a short annual window, whether the university and programme are sound, and whether the degree will be recognised by HEC — and, for medicine or dentistry, by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council — when you come home.
Most refusals come down to one of four
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Applying on the wrong visa is one of the quickest ways to a refusal, so read both lists before anything else.
Applying for Türkiye Scholarships
Students applying for Türkiye Scholarships at bachelor's, master's or PhD level.
Self-funded, with admission
Self-funded students with admission to a Turkish state or foundation (private) university.
After an English-taught programme
Students who want an English-taught programme, or are willing to learn Turkish first.
A family weighing the cost
Families weighing Turkey against costlier destinations further from home.
Document checklist
The base list for this visa. Your own checklist is built around your case — a salaried applicant and a business owner do not submit the same file.
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Step by step · with timings
In the order it happens. Each stage waits on the one before it, so the date you start decides the date you finish. Ranges, not promises — the mission owns the clock.
Türkiye Scholarships takes applications from 10 January to 20 February for study starting that September, with interviews between April and June and results in early August. Many students also apply directly to universities in case the scholarship does not come through.
Self-funded students apply to each university, which sets its own requirements — an entrance exam, international test results or a language score. Check whether your programme is taught in English or starts with a Turkish preparatory year.
HEC grants equivalence for foreign degrees; for medicine and dentistry, also check the university's standing with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council. Checking before you enrol costs nothing, while finding out afterwards can cost you the degree.
Apply through Anatolia, the authorised visa application centre for Turkish missions in Pakistan, with your original acceptance letter. Use only its own booking channels.
After you arrive, apply for the student residence permit on e-ikamet and hand in the documents through your university's international office, within your first month. Residence permit appointments are free, so ignore anyone who charges for one.
Once the permit is approved, register your address within 20 working days. If you move to a university in another city, you have 10 days to apply again.
Money
Fees are not quoted here because they change without notice. Each line says what a cost depends on and where the current figure is published.
Türkiye Scholarships covers tuition, accommodation, a monthly stipend, health insurance, a flight and a Turkish language course; the scholarship's own site sets out the current terms.
Self-funded tuition is set by each university, and state and foundation universities charge very differently.
The visa fee is set by the Turkish government, and Anatolia adds a service charge; the current amounts are on its website.
The residence permit card fee is published by the Presidency of Migration Management and paid before your appointment.
This is general guidance. Rules change, sometimes without notice, and your case will have specifics this page cannot know about. Check anything decisive on the official pages, or send us your situation and we will tell you where you actually stand.
Read before you apply
The grounds that come up most on files from Pakistan. Most of them can be dealt with before you submit.
An acceptance letter without a YÖKSİS ID, or a copy instead of the original.
Funding that does not cover your studies and living costs, for self-funded students.
A university or programme that cannot be verified, including offer letters the university itself did not issue.
Scholarship applications that are incomplete or weakly argued, which end the process before the interview.
Missing documents for the ikamet — no notarised rental contract, no student certificate, no health insurance.
Letting the visa run out before applying for the residence permit, which leads to fines and can bar you from coming back.
Send us the refusal letter before you do anything else. It states the grounds, and they decide whether applying again is worth it or would just cost you the fee a second time.
Send the letterStraight answers
What people ask us before they apply.
Once a year, from 10 January to 20 February, online. Interviews run from April to June, results come out in early August, and students travel in September.
Not for an English-taught programme. Many programmes are taught in Turkish, and Türkiye Scholarships includes a Turkish language course for students who need one. Daily life off campus is mostly in Turkish.
HEC grants equivalence for foreign degrees through its online e-services portal. Check that the university is recognised in Turkey before you enrol; for medicine and dentistry, check the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council's position too, because practising in Pakistan depends on it.
It is your residence permit. Students apply online on e-ikamet after arriving, usually with help from the university's international office. Apply in your first month, and never let your visa run out before you have applied.
Yes. Türkiye Scholarships applications are made by the student online, universities take applications directly, and visa appointments are booked through Anatolia. If you do use an agent, check that any offer letter they give you came from the university itself.
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