Africa
Turkey
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Essential: There are no legal restrictions on background checks under Turkish law. Under the Turkish Labour Code, the employer must keep a personnel file for each employee, though what the file must contain is not specified. Therefore, employers in Turkey generally keep employees’ criminal records, health reports, and so on, on file. The employer is not limited in requesting health or criminal records from the employee. It’s common to conduct employment references or education checks.
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Zinc's background check turnaround times
Please note these background check turnaround times are averages for the country. Actual check times may vary and depend on a number of factors including the resident country's process time as well as the candidate's document submission speed.
Financial (mins)
20
Criminal (days)
8
Media (mins)
14
Reference (days)
2
identity (mins)
140
Education (days)
2.942914144
Address (days)
2
Sanctions (mins)
25
Right-to-work rules
Rules apply for citizens as well as non-citizens working in the country
National ID Accepted?
Yes
Passport
Yes
Other passport accepted?
No
Any other routes (any type of citizen)
N/A
Body name
Ministry of Interior
Foreign Citizens
N/A
Natural citizens: Alternative routes
Birth cert. showing nationality of both parents
Country details
Birthrate
16.62
Population
84,872,123
capital
Ankara
GDP ($/capita)
6700
TLD
.tr
developed/developing
Developing
Currency
Turkish Lira
Net migration
0
Literacy(%)
86.5
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