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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

◊ University Academic Personnel

In 2016, the Council of Higher Education, together with together with the Chief
Advisor for Migration and Humanitarian Aid of the Prime Ministry established the
Foreign Academician Information System (YABSIS) to create a continually updated
database of researchers and foreign academicians who were forced to leave their country
and migrate to Türkiye because of war and internal disturbance and to give them the
opportunity to work in Turkish higher education institutions. As of January 2017,
1,637 Syrian academicians and researchers were registered in the Foreign Academician
Information System. However, within this number, only around the number of PhD
holders, assistant professors, associate professors, and professors in the total number of
these applications is only around 20%.

According to the information provided by the Council of Higher Education, as of
August 10, 2017, 14 professors, 14 associate professors, 93 assistant professors, 124
teaching assistants, 4 doctors, 1 research assistant, 79 lecturers and 5 Syrians with the
title of expert were already working in vocational colleges, state, and private foundation
universities established by Law 4702. A significant portion of the Syrians working as
academic staff in Türkiye are theology scholars (217) and Arabic lecturers.
VIII. HEALTH

Health services for Syrians under temporary protection started when they first entered
Türkiye’s Hatay province on 29 April 2011. The health services provided are primarily
governed by Circular No. 2013/8 issued by AFAD. The responsibility of coordination
between institutions is given to AFAD for the services presented by the “Services to
be Provided for the People Under Temporary Protection” section by entering into force
of the Temporary Protection Regulation, and it has been arranged that the service
expenses will be covered by AFAD.

The same regulation places health services under the control and responsibility of
the Ministry of Health. According to the aforementioned regulation, the Principles
Regarding the Health Services to be Provided for People Under Temporary Protection,
those who have Temporary Protection Identity Cards, those who have not yet been
registered by DGMM, those who were wounded when they crossed the border, and
those who have been accepted for temporary protection can benefit from health
services. These services consist of emergency health services, primary, secondary, and
tertiary care.

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