The reflection of the educational policies of the european union to turkish education system in terms of turkey-eu integration

The European Union (EU), composed of twenty-eight European countries, is a developing regional integration in which member states solve their problems in common and evaluatetheir sources, information and technologies). Education which has an important role in enlargement and sustaining continuity of the European Union, plays a vital role in the success of the policies of the Union. Turkey, trying to get involved in such a Union, maintains the relations with EU by fulfilling the regulations required by EU in this process. Especially in recent years, Turkey with the name of a candidate country to the European Union, concentrates on various regulatory activities in the field of education. The purpose of the study is to examine EU education policies and put forward their effects on Turkish educational system. © IDOSI Publications, 2013.