Turkey to stop sending students to the US

Turkey is to stop sending students to the United States for postgraduate studies and limit the number it sends to European and Asian countries, Yeni Safak newspaper quoted Turkish Deputy Education Minister Mustafa Safran as saying, reports Ahval.

NATO allies Turkey and the United States are embroiled in a diplomatic tussle over Turkey’s imprisonment of Americans that Washington says are being held as hostages. The United States last month imposed sanctions on two Turkish ministers and doubled tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminium imports. Turkey responded with sanctions of its own on some US goods.

Safran criticised postgraduate teaching in the United States and said the new policy would save the Turkish government the US$20 million it pays to US universities annually. Students would only be sent to European and Asian countries for postgraduate studies in a limited range of subjects.
Full report on the Ahval site