Hotel employees are exempt from the curfew between midnight on Thursday 30 April and midnight on Sunday 3 May
Executive Summary: A curfew has been declared by the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of the Interior between midnight on Thursday 30 April and midnight on Sunday 3 May, and hotel employees are exempt from the ban.
CIRCULAR NO: 20/61 Istanbul, 29.04.2020
Relevant Unit: Chairmanship of the Board of Directors, General Management, Human Resources
Subject: The curfew will not apply to Hotel employees on 01-03 May
Reference: Ministry of the Interior letter dated 28.04.2020
Executive Summary: A curfew has been declared by the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of the Interior between midnight on Thursday 30 April and midnight on Sunday 3 May, and hotel employees are exempt from the ban.
Dear Member,
Pursuant to the relevant letter of the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of the Interior, between midnight on Thursday 30 April and midnight on Sunday 3 May, with the exceptions specified in the letter, all citizens within the borders of the 30 metropolitan-status provinces (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Aydın, Balıkesir, Bursa, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Hatay, İstanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kayseri, Kocaeli, Konya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mersin, Muğla, Ordu, Sakarya, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Tekirdağ, Trabzon, Van) and Zonguldak will be subject to a curfew.
Hotels and accommodation facilities will continue their operations, and the managers, staff and employees there have been exempted from the curfew.
In this context, in order for the personnel who will work at hotels to be assessed within the scope of the exemption, their full identity details, along with the drivers of the shuttle vehicles and the vehicle license plates, are required.
Our members located in Istanbul must update the dates in the MS Excel format, a copy of which is attached, and send the information in question MOST URGENTLY to the Istanbul Police Department Personnel Branch Directorate at istanbulpersonel@egm.gov.tr, the Tourism Branch Directorate at istanbulturizm@egm.gov.tr and the Provincial Directorate at the e-mail address yatirimisletmeler34@ktb.gov.tr; our members operating outside Istanbul must send it to the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism to which they are affiliated.
*It is recommended that a copy of the relevant notification be kept with the personnel.
Given the importance of the matter, we bring it to your attention.
Respectfully,
TÜROB - The Association of Turkish Hoteliers
Müberra ERESİN
Chair of the Board of Directors
ATTACHMENTS:
1-Ministry of the Interior letter dated 28.04.2020