[5] The program was initiated in 1992 at the time of the mandate of the Turkish President Turgut Özal and was rebranded in its current form in 2012.

[6] Some developing countries such as Nigeria organize highly competitive national exams where in the Nigerian case in 2020 over 1000 students completed for 12 spots.

[8] Scholarships offered under this program are available to international students at associate, undergraduate, master, and Ph.D. level of higher education.

[11][12] Application materials for the scholarship can be submitted in Turkish, Arabic, English, French, Russian, Bosnian, Persian or Spanish language.

While the highest levels of higher education are open for candidates from almost every part of the world, undergraduate scholarships are regionally defined and include only explicitly mentioned countries.