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Turkish Employment Agency (ISKUR for short), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, is a public institution working to increase employment throughout Turkey. One of the services provided by İŞKUR is to mediate the recruitment services of employers. Recruitment for Public Bodies Public institutions looking for personnel can submit their workforce requests...

Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) provides intermediary services for employers to find Turkish workers to take to work in jobs abroad. These services includes, meeting the labour demands of Turkish and foreign employers for employment in their businesses abroad; carrying out the procedures of job seekers who apply to work abroad; giving advertising permission to employers...

Unemployment allowance is one of the payments in the nature of social insurance made by the General Directorate of the Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) within the scope of the Unemployment Insurance Law No. 4447. Unemployment Allowance refers to the monetary payment made by İŞKUR to insured unemployed people for the period and amount specified in...

Unemployment allowance is one of the payments in the nature of social insurance made by the General Directorate of the Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) within the scope of the Unemployment Insurance Law No. 4447. Unemployment Allowance refers to the monetary payment made by İŞKUR to insured unemployed people for the period and amount specified in...

The Minimum Wage Support which is being provided to employers per employees who are getting wage up to a certain amount, is being determined and increased for the calendar year of 2014. The Act No. 7495 on Amendments to Unemployment Insurance and Certain Laws is being published in the Turkish Official Gazette dated February 13,...

Active Labour Programmes are one of the main tools of Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) for increasing employability of the unemployed and to ease their access to the Turkish Labour Market. Within this context, İŞKUR provides vocational training courses, on-the-job training programmes, programmes for the benefit of the society and other courses, programmes, projects and services...

Job placement services is being provided to the disabled unemployed in Turkey by the Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR). Turkish citizens, who document that they lack at least 40 percent of all body function losses according to their disability status, with a disability health board report obtained from authorized health institutions, can register as “disabled” status...

In Turkey, the public body which is responsible for supporting employment is Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR). İŞKUR employes Job and Vocational Consultant’s for supporting employment and recruitment needs of employers. Every Job and Vocational Consultant has an employer portfolio. Job and Vocational Consultants visit the employers in their portfolio and help them inform them about...

According to the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510, “students who were subjected to internship while studying in vocational high schools or during their higher education” are considered insured within the scope of subparagraph “b” of the first paragraph of the Article 5 of Law No. 5510, as subjected to Work Accident...

R&D is innovative activities carried out on a systematic basis in order to increase scientific and technical knowledge and the use of the resulting knowledge in new applications (products or processes). Innovation refers to a series of scientific, technological, financial and commercial activities aimed at transforming an idea into an improved, updated or new and...