Hotels are exempt from the curfew under the LGS and YKS Measures Circular...

Dear Member,

Under the following Circular issued by the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Türkiye, a curfew will be imposed within the scope of the LGS and YKS Measures Circular, and Hotels are exempt from this measure.

In this context, in order for personnel who will work at hotels to be assessed under the exemption, their full identity information as well as shuttle vehicle drivers and vehicle license plates are required.

Our members located in Istanbul must send the relevant information, updating the dates in the MS Excel format, 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 yatirimisletmeler34@ktb.gov.tr, while our members operating outside Istanbul must send it to the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism to which they are affiliated, MOST URGENTLY.

For your information,

Respectfully,
TÜROB-Headquarters

ATTACHMENT: Circular of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Türkiye
https://www.icisleri.gov.tr/81-il-valiligine-lgs-ve-yks-tedbirleri-genelgesi

Our Ministry sent a circular on the subject of LGS and YKS Measures to the Governorships of all 81 provinces. The circular stated that, from the moment the novel coronavirus outbreak emerged, numerous measures were decided and implemented in line with the recommendations of the Ministry of Health and the Scientific Committee and the instructions of our President Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with the aim of managing the risk the outbreak poses to public health and public order, ensuring social isolation, maintaining distancing, and keeping the rate of spread under control.

In this framework, it was stated that certain measures needed to be taken so that the High School Entrance Exam and the Higher Education Institutions Exam to be held in the coming days could be conducted under the most appropriate conditions for public health.

The measures taken in this context were listed as follows:
1- High School Entrance Exam (LGS); In order to reduce the congestion and risk of transmission that may arise before and after the High School Entrance Exam (LGS), whose first session will begin at 09.30 and end at 10.45 and whose second session will begin at 11.30 and end at 12.50 on Saturday, 20 June 2020, and to ensure that the exam is conducted without problems;

On Saturday, 20 June 2020, between 09.00 and 15.00, with the exception of those specified below, our citizens within the borders of all 81 of our provinces will be restricted from going out.

2- Higher Education Institutions Exam (YKS); In order to reduce the congestion and risk of transmission that may arise before and after the Higher Education Institutions Exam (YKS), whose first session will begin at 10.15 and end at 13.00 on Saturday, 27 June 2020, whose second session will begin at 10.15 and end at 13.15 on Sunday, 28 June 2020, and whose third session will begin at 15.45 and end at 17.45 on Sunday, 28 June 2020, and to ensure that the exam is conducted without problems;

On Saturday, 27 June 2020, between 09.30 and 15.00, and on Sunday, 28 June 2020, between 09.30 and 18.30, with the exception of those specified below, our citizens within the borders of all 81 of our provinces will be restricted from going out.

3- Should candidates who will take either the LGS or YKS exams travel to the exam building by public transport, in addition to themselves one relative, and should they arrive by private vehicle, the vehicle driver together with one relative, will not be subject to the curfew.

4- In order to receive Republic of Türkiye Identity Card applications of candidates who will take the LGS and YKS exams, all provincial/district population directorates will be kept open;
Until 20.00 on Thursday, 18 June 2020 and Friday, 19 June 2020, which fall just before the LGS exam,
Between 07.00 and 13.00 on Saturday, 20 June 2020, the day the LGS exam will be held,
Until 20.00 on Thursday, 25 June 2020 and Friday, 26 June 2020, which fall just before the YKS exam,
Between 07.00 and 13.00 on Saturday, 27 June 2020, the day the YKS exam will be held,
Between 07.00 and 16.00 on Sunday, 28 June 2020, the day the YKS exam will be held.
5- On the days the LGS and YKS exams will be held, in order to avoid any disruption in urban public transport (bus, minibus, shared taxi, taxi, etc.) primarily for the candidates who will take the exam and their relatives as well as the exam officials, the necessary measures will be taken by the Municipalities and the number of services will be increased according to demand.

6- Those who have ticketed on intercity public transport vehicles (plane, bus, train, ferry, ferryboat, etc.) will not be subject to the curfew.

7- Workplaces, Businesses and Institutions That Will Be Open

a) On the days and hours when the curfew will be applied; bakeries and/or licensed bakery-product workplaces where bread is produced, along with the dealers of these workplaces that sell only bread, markets, grocery stores, greengrocers, butchers, nut sellers and workplaces where confectionery is produced/sold (our citizens, limited to meeting their essential needs and on the condition that they do not use a vehicle (excluding our disabled citizens), may go to and from the bakery, licensed bakery-product workplace, market, grocery store, greengrocer, butcher, nut seller and confectioner nearest to their residence.),

b) Workplaces carrying out activities related to the production, transport and sale of medicines, medical devices, medical masks and disinfectants,

c) Public and private health institutions and establishments, pharmacies, veterinary clinics and animal hospitals,

ç) Public institutions and establishments and businesses necessary for sustaining essential public services (Airports, ports, border gates, customs, highways, nursing homes, elderly care homes, rehabilitation centers, Population Directorates, Emergency Call Centers, AFAD Units, Vefa Social Support Units, Migration Administration, PTT, etc.),

d) Fuel stations,

e) Tire repairers in numbers to be determined by Governorships/District Governorships (to be designated by lot), one for every 50,000 inhabitants for residential centers and one for every 50 km on the intercity highway and, if any, the motorway passing through the provincial borders,

f) Large facilities and businesses operating strategically in the natural gas, electricity and petroleum sectors (such as refineries and petrochemical facilities and thermal and natural gas combined-cycle power plants),

g) Drinking water bottling facilities and companies that distribute drinking water, newspapers and kitchen gas cylinders,

ğ) Animal shelters, animal farms and animal care centers,

h) Businesses/firms carrying out urgent construction, equipment, etc. activities aimed at increasing the capacity of health services,

ı) Facilities where the production of basic food items such as pasta, flour and flour products, milk, meat and fish is carried out, and facilities where hygiene materials, primarily paper and cologne production, and the raw materials needed for the production of these materials are produced, provided that permission is granted by the Provincial/District Public Health Board of the place where they are located,

i) Firms engaged in domestic and international transportation (including export/import/transit passages) and logistics,

j) Hotels and accommodation establishments,

k) Production facilities that supply packaging to sectors such as food, cleaning and pharmaceuticals,

l) Large construction projects and mines whose construction or work continues with workers staying at the site located in the construction/mining area (Under this article, permission is granted if the construction and accommodation are within the same site area; workers from elsewhere are not permitted to arrive and those staying at the site are not permitted to go elsewhere. The work area is limited solely to the construction area/mining sites.),

m) Newspaper, radio and television organizations and newspaper printing presses,

n) Workplaces and facilities producing goods, materials, products and equipment subject to export that have previously been contracted/committed and must be produced within the specified period (provided that they prove their existing obligations and comply with the aforementioned conditions),

o) Agricultural Credit Cooperatives where fuel is sold for agricultural purposes,

ö) Businesses selling agricultural production products such as agricultural pesticides, seeds, seedlings, fertilizers, etc., to be determined by lot according to the need to be identified by Governorships/District Governorships,

p) Wholesale vegetable/fruit markets,

8- Persons Covered by the Exemption

a) Managers, officials or employees in the “Workplaces, Businesses and Institutions That Will Be Open” listed under heading (7) of this Circular,

b) Those tasked with ensuring public order and security (including private security officers),

c) Those serving at Emergency Call Centers, Vefa Social Support Units, the Red Crescent and AFAD,

ç) Those tasked with funeral and burial procedures (religious officials, hospital and municipal officials, etc.) and those who will attend the funerals of their first-degree relatives,

d) Those tasked with maintaining transmission and infrastructure systems that must not be interrupted, such as electricity, water, natural gas and telecommunications, and with repairing their faults,

e) Those tasked with the transport or logistics of products and/or materials (including cargo), domestic and international transportation, storage and related activities,

f) Employees of social protection/care centers such as elderly care homes, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, children's homes, etc.,

g) Those with “Special Needs” such as autism, severe mental retardation and Down syndrome, and their parents/guardians or companions,

ğ) Those tasked with the sections that must be operated as a necessity, such as the high-grade ore/mineral smelting furnaces and cold storage warehouses of workplaces operating in sectors such as iron and steel, glass, ferrochrome, etc.,

h) Employees of the information processing centers of institutions, establishments and businesses with a widespread service network across the country, primarily banks (provided that they are at a minimum number),

ı) Those working in the production, irrigation, processing, spraying, harvesting, marketing and transport of plant (rose, tea, fruit, grain, cut flowers, etc.) and animal (milk, meat, eggs, fish, etc.) products,

i) Those who graze small and large livestock, those carrying out beekeeping activities,

j) Members of the Animal Feeding Group established within the scope of our Circular dated 30.04.2020 and numbered 7486, and those who will feed stray animals,

k) Those going out to meet the essential needs of their pets, limited to the front of their residence,

l) Those with a mandatory health appointment (including blood and plasma donations to be made to the Red Crescent),

m) Those tasked with meeting the basic needs required by those staying in communal places such as dormitories, hostels, construction sites, etc.,

n) Employees for whom leaving the workplace is risky due to occupational health and safety (workplace physician, etc.),

o) Veterinarians,

ö) Technical service employees, provided they document that they are outside in order to provide service,

p) Those who continuously guard workplaces during the hours/days when the workplaces are closed,

r) Personnel who will work on the weekend to carry out the public transport, cleaning, solid waste, water and sewage, spraying, firefighting and cemetery services of municipalities,

s) Those working in the manufacture and logistics of explosives used in mining, construction and other large investment projects,

ş) Those who will establish personal contact with their children within the framework of a court decision (provided that they present the court decision),

t) Independent accountants and financial advisors, sworn-in financial advisors, and members of these professions and those who work with them,

It is essential that all our citizens other than those in the specified exemptions stay in their homes.

Decisions concerning those covered by article (ı) of heading (7), “Workplaces, Businesses and Institutions That Will Be Open,” of this Circular will be taken by the Provincial/District Public Health Boards by no later than 13.00 on Friday, 19.06.2020 for the LGS exam, and by no later than 13.00 on Friday, 26.06.2020 for the YKS exam.

It will be ensured that the necessary decisions regarding the measures in question are taken promptly by Governors/District Governors in accordance with the relevant legislation, that no disruption is allowed in implementation, and that no grievance is caused.

Citizens who do not comply with the decisions taken will be given an administrative fine pursuant to Article 282 of the Public Health Law. Depending on the nature of the violation, proceedings will be carried out pursuant to the relevant articles of the Law, and the necessary judicial proceedings will be initiated within the scope of Article 195 of the Turkish Penal Code regarding conduct that constitutes a crime.