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Foreigners with an indefinite-term work permit are required to renew their work permit documents every five (5) years as of the start date of the permit, in accordance with the fourth paragraph of the 28th Article of the Implementing Regulation of International Labour Force Law, which was being published in the Turkish Official Gazette dated...

In the Turkish Social Security Regime, alternative solutions have been developed in order to include those who are not actively in the working life within the scope of the social security system. One of these solutions is “optional insurance (voluntary insurance)”. Optional insurance is the insurance that allows individuals to be subject to long-term insurance...

The issue of “those who are waiting for retirement age” has recently been one of the most vivid topics in the Turkish labour life. Three major reforms were made in the Turkish social security regime in 1999, 2002 and 2008, consecutively. With each of these reforms, retirement conditions for social insured were made more and...

What is Turkish Cash Repatriation Peace (Asset Peace)? The Turkish Cash Repatriation Peace is the legal and administrative regulations that ensure that assets in the form of money, gold, foreign exchange, securities and other capital market instruments and real estate owned both abroad and domestically but not registered inside Republic of Turkey are registered and...

Turkey is a country that has made an extensive Pension Reform in the year 2008. With the Turkish Pension Reform of 2008, significant changes were made in the Turkish social insurance system, and the retirement conditions and ages of the insured were redefined dramatically. Retirement conditions for the people insured after 1 October 2008 (which...

Turkey is a country that has made an extensive Pension Reform in the year 2008. With the Turkish Pension Reform of 2008, significant changes were made in the Turkish social insurance system, and the retirement conditions and ages of the insured were redefined dramatically. There are some special conditions applied to old-age pension in Turkey...

Notification of occupational injuries is one of the liabilities of employers in the Turkish Social Insurance Laaw. According to the Article 13 of the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Code No. 5510; occupational injury (work accident) is an event that occurs in the following situations and causes physical or mental disability to the insured...

According to the Turkish Labour Code No. 4857, which is the main law of the Turkish Labour Law, the worker has the right to terminate the employment contract with justified cause due to violation of the rules of ethics and goodwill by the employer. The following situations are considered as employer’s violation of the rules...

The social security of lawyers working under an employer in Turkey varies depending on whether the lawyer works in the public sector or the private sector. Lawyers working under the Civil Servants Code No. 657, if they started to work in the state before the 2008 Social Security Reform, are subject to the Law No....

The social insurance of agricultural employees in Turkey who are working with an employment contract and who are permanent employees in agricultural activities continues as before the 2008 Social Security Reform and their insurance is considered within the scope of service contract social insurance status. Their notifications must be made by their employers and their...