09 Feb Regarding the condition of hiring 5 Turkish employees for every foreign employee and the company’s capital must be 100,000 Turkish liras as a minimum

There were no criteria in issuing work permits before the former Minister of Labor, Mr. Omar Dincer. Permission to work was rejected with unclear statements due to “inappropriate economic conditions”. The lack of clarity in these statements has opened the door to carrying out actions through relationships network in a manner that is not appropriate for our country.

We had the opportunity to suggest directly to the Minister to

Amend the legal regulations in this regard, aiming to regulate this problem, and after a short period of time, certain criteria have been defined. And it was started to grant work permission to the foreign employee in the company whose capital is 100,000 TL.

And it employs 5 Turkish employees for every single foreign employee. He also started doing all procedures via the Internet.

According to this situation he started to put clear reasons for the rejected work permit, for example: “rejected because requirement of 5 Turkish employees didn`t achieved “