Business in Turkey

Providing employees with gold as a social aid is a controversial issue in practice as regard to accounting treatment of it (i.e. tax and social security liability).   Many companies treat it as a cost item and directly record into expenses. In fact the gold aid should be treated as …

As a rule foreign nationals have the same right to establish companies as accorded to Turkish citizens.Pursuant to Article 3 of the Law on Direct Foreign Investments, foreign investors are free to make foreign direct investments in Turkey, and shall be subject to equal treatment with domestic investors. However foreign …

One of the most important and legally necessary instrument that should be created and maintained by personnel departments are the personnel files of employees. Although the documents and records kept in the file may vary as regard to qualification of employee and nature of business, some of them are essential. …

Governing Legislation: The Law on the Work Permit for Foreigners, No. 4817 The Law on the Foreigners and International Protection, No. 6458 Turkish Citizenship Law number 403 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Law No. 4875     Law on Fees, No. 492 GENERAL RULES Obligation:Foreigners are obliged to get permission before they …

As per the Labor Law, No: 4587, Article 41, works which exceed forty-five hours a week are defined as overtime. Employer may request employees to work overtime, not exceeding 270 hours per year. Further, the employee’s consent shall be required for overtime work, in January each year. In Turkey one …

Dr. Mehmet Ozan Uzkut, the President of MOBDER, the Association to Fight against Mobbing, declared that big companies are using mobbing as a tool not to pay compensation to their employees. Uzkut added that there have been 3,000 mobbing complaints and 600 were concluded as mobbing cases. PARTICULARLY HIGH MOBBING …

By Klaus Jurgen Measuring the quality of life in any city or town is a complicated scientific task. While necessary, over-focusing on questions such as “Are you happy?” will not automatically lead to making correct assumptions about a town’s range of amenities or infrastructure development! While some argue that the …

By Ela Erozan Gursel Flexible work has become the norm in England due to the economic recession. The work conditions of the flexible work are determined by zero-hour contracts widely preferred by employers. These contracts favor the employers over employees by paying only the hours worked. There is neither guarantee …

The overall objective of the project that is implemented by ILO and the Turkish Employment Agency, IŞKUR, is to contribute to women’s empowerment in Turkey by providing decent work opportunities through capacity development of relevant institutions, active labour market policy (ALMP) interventions and enhancing awareness on gender, women’s human rights …

‘Karagöz,’ a critical aspect of Turkey’s collective past, will be in the archive. The Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry is forming an archive of public culture with 172,435 documents including notes, gramophone records, photos, videos, ethnographic tool and Karagöz depictions. Scientific works that started in 1910 in the field of …