About Us

The School of Foreign Languages affiliated to Trakya University, located in Edirne, was established with the decision of the Council of Ministers dated 30.09.2005, and started to operate since the 2006-2007 academic year with the decision to gather the compulsory and optional English and German preparatory classes within the School of Foreign Languages. In the same academic year, to meet the need for specialists who speak more than one language, German and English Departments of Translation and Interpretation were established, and 20 students were admitted to each.

The border neighborhood of the Thrace region and Edirne province with the Balkan countries has brought with it the opening of two programs in German and English, as well as programs highlighting the languages of neighboring countries. In this context, as a second step, the Department of Translation and Interpretation Bulgarian and Balkan Languages Albanian, Bosnian, Romanian, Greek Departments and since it is the most widely used language in the Balkans, Russian Department were opened, and student admission has begun since the 2007-2008 academic year. These departments were later attached to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with the decision of the General Council of Higher Education dated 07.02.2008, and the Department of Croatian Language and Literature was added to the existing programs in the 2009-2010 academic year. In addition, with the Higher Education General Assembly Decision dated 03.09.2008, it was decided to establish the Department of Foreign Languages within the School of Foreign Languages and the Department of Armenian Language and Literature within this department.

Today, the School of Foreign Languages, which provides preparatory education in German, Bulgarian and English, was accredited by "Pearson Assured", an international independent and impartial authorization body, on 11 December 2018.

Trakya University School of Foreign Languages, which was accredited for the first time in 2018, has been re-accredited by "Pearson Assured" for one year as of May 4, 2021.