THE RIGHT TO WORK OF ALIENS UNDER INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION IN TURKEY

Abstract

As one of the most important fundamental rights, the right to work is supposed to be provided to all people. However funda mental rights and freedoms can be restricted to foreigners in ac cordance with international law and by means of laws in Turkish law as well as world practice. In this respect, the right to work of forced migrants in Turkey has been restricted from various aspects, too. Taking the fact that the Turkish geography has faced too many forced migrants in several years into consideration, the importance of labor market regulation considering those aliens has increased. That’s why there has emerged several new regulations including law and regarding by-laws. In this paper, the categorization of forced migrants in Turkey has been explained just after the legal basis for restrictions of the work of aliens in general set forth. Then the types of work permits for aliens in Turkey has been discoursed because aliens are supposed to have a work permit in general which in turn means they do not have a direct access to Turkish labor market. After that the paper focuses on the work of forced migrants for both international protection status holders including refugees, conditional refugees, secondary protection and temporary status protection holder. The paper has been concluded with the author’s personal opinions.