The Bill on Amendments to Certain Laws and Decree Laws, including the regulation for increasing the minimum pension, was accepted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Planning and Budget Commission.
With the proposal, with the amendment made to the Civil Servants Law, the service period requirement, which is stipulated as 5 years, in order to be appointed to civil servant positions from the staff, positions and duties listed in table 2 of the Presidential Decree No. 3, which is subject to the decision of the President in terms of the appointment procedure but is not a senior public manager, will be increased to 10 years.
Regulations are being made in the Revolving Fund Law of the Ministry of Culture in order to ensure that cinema supports have a continuous and sustainable resource structure and to strengthen the support mechanism, without depending solely on the appropriations to be allocated from the general budget. Accordingly, cinema sector supports deemed appropriate by the boards and commissions within the scope of the Law on Evaluation, Classification and Support of Cinema Films are included in the usage area of the revolving fund of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
With another change made in the Law, the service fees to be collected from applications to be made to the Ministry within the scope of the Law on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Assets and the 2 percent shares to be deducted for the cinema sector from media service providers and internet platform operators providing conditional access will be recorded directly as income to the Ministry's revolving fund account.
With the provision created in the Law on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Assets, except for those requested within the scope of all kinds of plans, projects, constructions and similar works prepared by public institutions and organizations, the service fees in the Fee Tariff added to the regulation to be used in the execution of services to be carried out for the purpose of protecting cultural heritage will be collected from all kinds of document requests and objection and re-evaluation applications within the scope of the Law for which the Ministry of Culture and Tourism is authorized, and from requests and applications that require a special activity, research and examination by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The amounts to be collected as service fee will be deposited by the applicants to the relevant bank account of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Revolving Fund Enterprise Central Directorate. The amount collected in the account will be recorded as income in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Revolving Fund budget.
The service fees determined in the tariff will be increased and applied every year at the revaluation rate determined and announced in accordance with the relevant provision of the Tax Procedure Law for the previous year, effective from the beginning of the calendar year.
The procedures and principles regarding the applications to be made within the scope of the provision and the fees to be collected for the services to be provided will be determined by the regulation issued by the Ministry.
With the proposal, changes are made to the Highway Traffic Law in line with the annulment decision of the Constitutional Court. Accordingly, those who obtain a driver's license for the first time and those whose driver's license has been canceled for any reason and who are entitled to re-obtain a driver's license will be considered as candidate drivers for 2 years from the date of receipt of the document.
During the candidate driving period, if a violation requiring the temporary revocation of the driver's license within the scope of the Law is committed, 75 penalty points are exceeded, it is determined that the vehicle is driven with alcohol over 0.20 promil regardless of the vehicle type, and if any of the provisions in the Law regarding the turning rules, giving pedestrians the right of way and the obligation for drivers and passengers to use protective systems are violated 3 times, the candidate driver's license will be cancelled.
Candidate drivers whose licenses have been canceled will need to attend driving courses and obtain a motor vehicle driver's certificate by passing the exams in order to obtain a driver's license again. In order for these people to start training in driving schools, it will be mandatory to submit to the driving school a document showing that there is no obstacle to driving as a result of the psycho-technical evaluation and psychiatric expert examination they will be subjected to, all of the administrative fines imposed under the Law must be collected and, if any, the waiting period after cancellation or the retrieval period after temporary revocation procedures must have passed.
Candidate driver's license cancellation procedures will be carried out by traffic police whose duties and powers are specified in the Law.
With the proposed law, changes are being made to the provision titled "Rescue and assistance" of the Turkish Civil Aviation Law in order to comply with the International Civil Aviation Agreement. Accordingly, the Ministry of Transport will ensure that the necessary service is provided to the aircraft that has been in an accident, is in a difficult situation and is in danger. Law enforcement and other authorities will be obliged to help the aircraft, flight crew, passengers, rescue and assistance team that has been in an accident, is in difficulty or is in danger, to perform their duties.
According to the article titled "Obligation to comply with prevention instructions and land", which was enacted with the amendment made to the Law, if civil aircraft flying in Turkish airspace act against air traffic rules or violate the airspace, they will be obliged to comply with the instructions given within the scope of prevention activities carried out by aircraft authorized upon the request of the relevant air traffic control unit and to land when deemed necessary. In the implementation of this provision, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure will cooperate with the Ministries of National Defense, Internal Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Trade when necessary.
Civil aircraft flying in the airspace of foreign states, registered in the Turkish Civil Aircraft Registry or operated by Turkish operators will be required to comply with the prevention instructions given by the competent authorities of the states recognized by the Republic of Turkey and to land when deemed necessary.
In order to be effective in ensuring that aviation enterprises fulfill their responsibilities, to prevent violations, and to ensure a safer and more sustainable situation in the sector, the lower and upper limits of the administrative fines stipulated in the provision of the Law titled "Behaviours constituting misdemeanors" will be applied as 5 times for legal entities.
According to the amendment made to the Unemployment Insurance Law, the Ministry of Industry and Technology and its related and affiliated organizations will continue to implement incentive and support programs in order to protect employment in the manufacturing sector in 2025, 2026 and 2027. The period for covering the resources of the support programs implemented in line with employment protection-oriented policies from the Unemployment Insurance Fund will be extended from 31 December 2026 to 31 December 2028.
According to the provision added to the Law, within the scope of the Tourism Encouragement Law, in private sector accommodation facility workplaces that have the Ministry of Culture and Tourism tourism business certificate, the number of premium payment days of the insured, who are declared subject to long-term insurance branches within the scope of the relevant provision of the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law, with the summary and premium service declaration submitted in the relevant month/period, limited to the months/periods in which the facility operates, from May to December of this year. The amount to be found multiplied by 116.67 TL will be covered from the Unemployment Insurance Fund by deducting from the insurance premiums that these workplaces will pay to the Social Security Institution (SGK).
In cases where withholding tax and premium service declarations related to the workplace are not submitted within the legal period, premiums are not paid within the legal period, and there is a debt of premiums, administrative fines and related delay penalties and delay interest to the Social Security Institution, the support specified in this provision will not be available. However, employers who defer and restructure their debts of premiums, administrative fines and related delay fines and late payments to the SSI in accordance with the relevant provision of the Law on the Collection Procedure of Public Receivables, or in accordance with other relevant laws, as long as this installment or structuring continues, can do this by closing an existing business and opening it under a different name, title or business unit, shifting employment between companies with direct or indirect partnership relations in a way that retains management and control, changing business ownership in sole proprietorships, or If it is understood that a collusive transaction has been established in order to benefit from the support provided within the scope of this article, the amount covered from the Fund will be collected from the employer together with the delay penalty and delay interest in accordance with the Social Security and General Health Insurance Law.
The amount covered by the Fund will be taken back, together with the delay penalty and late payment interest, from the workplaces that are found to have not declared their employees as insured or have not actually employed the declared insured, and from the workplaces that have been found to have not reported or underreported the premium-based earnings of the insured to the SSI, as a result of the investigations and examinations carried out by court order or by the officers in charge of inspection and control for the months/periods of May to December this year, and the provisions of this regulation will not be applied to these workplaces. However, if it is determined that an incomplete premium-based earnings notification has been made in the relevant month in an amount not exceeding one-tenth of the monthly gross minimum wage for the months/periods of May to December 2026, the provisions of this regulation will continue to be applied to workplaces that correct the deficiency within a 15-day period upon the notice to be issued by SSI. The provisions of this regulation will not be applied to employees subject to social security support premiums, foreign national insured people and insured people working abroad.
If the workplaces benefiting from the support within this scope benefit from other insurance premium incentives, supports and discounts in the same month/period, the support amount to be provided in accordance with this provision cannot exceed the insurance premium amount that must be paid to SSI for the month/period in which the support is benefited after these incentives, supports and discounts are applied. The amounts covered by the Fund in this context will not be taken into account as income, expense or cost element in income and corporate tax applications. The procedures and principles regarding the implementation of this provision will be determined by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, after taking the opinion of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
This provision will enter into force at the beginning of the month following the publication of the regulation.