Access to rehabilitation services for people with disabilities is considered as a human rights issue in the Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities (CRPD). Along with the ratification of CRPD and implementation ...

Having established public pension schemes since the 1940s, Turkey introduced the voluntary private pillar in the early 2000s and launched the auto-enrolment in the private pension plan for all employees under 45 in 2016. ...

Labour market activation has emerged as a significant research area in the social policy literature due to the relevant policy developments of the last decades throughout the world. In Turkey, labour market activation ...

The city hospital program has been the latest example of the public-private partnership (PPP) paradigm in the Turkish healthcare system, which has transformed the role the public sector plays in public service provision. ...

Eight years ago, first flow of refugees started to cross the Turkish-Syrian border, fleeing a bloody civil war that started to tear their lives apart while looking for a fresh new start in a new country. Soon after, these ...

Since the 2003 Health Transformation Programme, Turkey’s health care system has been subjected to significant changes in financing, provision, and regulation. The diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) is among these regulations, ...

Turkey’s welfare regime has been undergoing a massive transformation under the auspices of the Justice and Development Party since 2002. The ratification of the Law on Disabled People in 2005 could be regarded as an important ...

The world of work has gradually fallen under the influence of the precarization trend, especially since the 1980s. One of the domains that this trend that can be observed is the changes in the judicial system and labor ...

A catalyst for the renewed focus on linking humanitarian and development aid has been the scale and protracted nature of the Syrian refugee situation. While policy and academic literature has emphasized the necessity for ...