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THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE

In order to conduct an on-site examination on the claims of the subject veterinarian, the
Ombudsman Institution assigned experts; accordingly, it was identified, as was already
expressed by the applicant, that the allocated office was located outside the laboratory
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block in a two-roomed building, which was used to be a masjid and that in the room,
where a heating system was not installed, there was only an old desk along with an old
file cabinet. After the visit of the experts, Acting Director of the Institute convened
the veterinarian and expressed his discomfort about this visit’s having been carried out
without authorisation. Upon the quarrel started after the veterinarian response that he
exercised his constitutional right; a disciplinary action was started by the Acting Director
of the Institute. The investigator assigned by the Acting Director recommended that
the veterinarian be sent away from the workplace on the grounds that the veterinarian
broke the peace, and the acting director appointed the veterinarian, who was working
in the Foot-and-Mouth Diseases Institute, to the District Directorate of Agriculture
and Forestry and inflicted disciplinary punishments even without waiting for the result
of the investigation.

Considering the fact that the unfair practices that the veterinarian suffered before
applying to our Institution and while the examination was in progress spread over
a long period and the systematicity of these practices, it was concluded to issue a
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Recommendation to remove the disciplinary punishment of the applicant, to appoint
him to his former workplace, Foot-and-Mouth Diseases Institute, and to start an
investigation against the parties to the mobbing.

Upon the investigation carried out by the Directorate for Guidance and Inspection
under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry following the Recommendation issued
by the Ombudsman Institution, the Director of Foot-and-Mouth Diseases Institute,
who was also the Acting Deputy Director in the Directorate General of Food and
Control, was suspended from his duties and sent to Disciplinary Board of the Ministry
of Agriculture and Forestry so that necessary evaluations would be made relevant to
his behaviours considered to be against the code of ethics. Veterinarian returned to his
work in the Institute.
SERVICES PROVIDED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Our Institution received many applications in 2019 in the field of services provided by
local governments. The subject matters of these applications were mainly as follows:
Procedures and practices relevant to zoning and public works, permission procedures,
infrastructure services, urban transformation, proceedings relevant to natural gas,
financial services, water services, public transportation, parking services, landscaping,
ensuring traffic order and pedestrian safety, solid waste management, community
policing, funeral and burial services, fire services and other matters relating to services
provided by local governments
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19 Recommendation dated 28/02/2019 on the application no 2018/17444

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