A new amnesty law has been introduced in Turkey that allows for settlement of existing tax liabilities and immunity against a potential tax audit for individual taxpayers.Turkey’s Law number 6111 (referred to as the “Tax Amnesty law”) was published in the official gazette (Resmi Gazete) on 25 February 2011, and …
Read More »What the CEO Needs From Human Resources
How to help executives make well-informed decisions about the workforce Top Business Challenges for Today’s CEO The current economic environment has forced CEOs to focus almost all of their attention on revenues and profitability. They must be very aware of what competitors are doing— and competitors can be anywhere in …
Read More »Working in Turkey
There is a lot of paperwork to be done before you start working in Turkey. Work Permits are either obtained from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı) or from the Consulates of Turkish Republic abroad.
Read More »We Are All Scared of Making Mistakes… But Why? By Ela Erozan Gürsel
Whatever business we’re in, we have busy schedules. Sometimes we don’t even have much time to read a book, practice sports or even to enjoy lunch with friends. We need to rush from one engagement to another, complete tasks within deadlines and most importantly make no mistakes. If we make …
Read More »Social Media: The Personal at Work Can Be A Disruptive Mix
There are some companies that encourage employees to have a healthy work-life balance. A happy worker, so goes the thinking, is a productive worker.Yet, with the rise of social media, there is more personal information about individuals available on the web than ever before.As a result, the lines between work, …
Read More »Data mining: Analytics Can Improve Use of Money and Staff
“HR people tend not to be very analytical; they don’t do numbers.” This is how one consultant describes his relationship with a human resources director client.But although heads of HR are often respected for being “people people”, the job is increasingly analytical.HR departments already have access to significant sources of …
Read More »Human Resources Goes Technical
John Sweeney makes no bones about it. “Thirty years ago, HR was a backwater operation,” says the human resources veteran who now works at the Society for Human Resources Management near Washington.“It was totally paper-oriented. In the old days you used to put an [advertisement] in the paper, saying ‘we …
Read More »Details on Registering Property in Turkey
Standardized Property Property Value: TL 629,667.49 City: Istanbul
Read More »Do You Have An Idea? By Ela Erozan Gürsel
Have you heard of the new TV show ‘BirFİKRİNmiVAR? (Do you have an idea?) It is a weekly program airing on NTV that features entrepreneurs’ start-up ideas. There are trailers of each week’s contestants who vividly demonstrate their first prototypes in front of the jury, who in return challenges them …
Read More »Details on Starting a Business in Turkey
Procedure 1 Execute and notarize articles of association, signature declaration of the managers, copies of each manager’s identity card or passport and commercial books. Time to complete(days): 1 Cost to complete: Articles of Associations 900 TL.
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Turkish Labor Law