The 11th Development Plan - International Cultural Cooperation Objectives

• Benefiting from the constructive role of culture in international relations by promoting our culture abroad, developing cultural diplomacy activities, ensuring coordination between cultural diplomacy activities carried out by public and civil society organizations,

• Increasing political, economic, social, cultural, and scientific relations with Islamic countries, the EU, other regional countries and regional formations, and making more effective use of multilateral and regional cooperation,

• Ensuring more effective use of regional cooperations such as ECO, Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), D-8 hosted or founded by our country,

• Actively supporting the work of organizations by completing the membership process to the ECO Science Institute and the ECO Institute of Culture,

• Encouraging academic studies that will contribute to the relations of our country with Islamic countries in the fields of politics, economy, trade, and culture,

• Developing political, economic, cultural, social, and scientific cooperation with the Turkish world,

• Continuing and increasing the contributions made to the cooperative efforts of intergovernmental organizations such as the Turkish Council and Türksoy,

• Deepening the political, economic, social, cultural, and scientific cooperation activities of our country with the countries of Asia-Pacific, Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean,

• Supporting the opening of Turkish language and literature undergraduate programs in selected countries within the scope of the promotion of Turkish culture,

have been among the main objectives of Eleventh Development Plan.