As of December 31, 2011, males 30 years of age or older will be entitled to apply for paid military service. They will have to pay TL 30,000 (€13,000) and will be exempt from 21 day-long basic military training. Are the employees who applied for paid military service entitled to …

Most of us become more active when we visit a new place as a tourist or live in a foreign country. We want to understand the new culture, meet new people, taste different dishes, listen to different music and languages. For these reasons, we see more expatriates’ involvement in social …

Japanese volunteers living in Istanbul held a gathering Monday to serve to raise funds for people affected by major quakes near the eastern Turkish city of Van last month and earlier this month. Several hundred people, including Japanese expatriates and locals, participated in the gathering, which helped deepen ties between …

The rapidly growing Turkish economy has to find new and sustainable financing instruments to support entrepreneurs to elevate the country’s competitiveness, the head of Turkey’s top business association said yesterday. “The biggest resource of the country may not be oil but its entrepreneurial spirit,” Rıfat Hisarcıklıoğlu, chairman of the Union …

Employment in Turkey is mainly governed by Turkish Labor Law and Trade Union Law. Under the new Turkish Labor Law, there are four different types of job contracts: a) Job contracts for “temporary” and “permanent” workb) Job contracts for a “definite period” or an “indefinite period”c) Job contracts for “part-time” …

Having spent over a year traveling around Southeast Asia, Nepal, and India, I was always on the lookout for a place where I might stop and settle down for more than a couple months at a time. Arriving in Turkey almost 3 months ago, I’ve discovered it has a unique …

One of New York’s most famous museums has opened a number of new Ottoman galleries, naming two of the new venues after the Koç family. “The New York ‘Met’ [Metropolitan Art Museum] is one of America’s top fine art institutions,” Rahmi Koç, the honorary president of Koç Holding, said at …

Turkey’s unemployment rate fell to 9.1 percent in the three months to August from 10.6 percent in the same period last year, official data showed on Monday, AFP reported. The number of jobless fell by 273,000 people to reach 2.509 million on a 12-month comparison, the statistics institute said on the basis …

Turkish Labor & Social Security Minister Faruk Celik supported a German draft law on integration and social participation. “This is a very important draft law,” said Celik, and expressed hope that it would become law soon. “North Rhine-Westphalia is the state where Turks had the highest population,” said Celik prior …

For most of us September is the month that marks the end of summer, start of new school year and hope for new work opportunities. Some of us act fast and begin job search right away, some others procrastinate and postpone looking for career opportunities until the weather feels winter-like …