Turkey

As a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Turkey established a rights based legal framework for international and temporary protection, providing persons in need of international protection with a broad range of rights and entitlements (GFI).  Since 2015 PoCs have the right to work, however, as most opportunities are in the informal sector with the formal quota for refugees not to exceed 10 per cent of the total workforce per enterprise, and the requirement that refugees be employed only in their province of registration. For more details, please refer to the 'UNHCR Country Update - Turkey' below.