SAÜ’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture reserved student places for applicants with disabilities and published selection results. The Personnel Department’s 2025 work plan scheduled processing of the national employment entitlement for eligible people who received social care. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The Administrative Appointments Branch scheduled Law No. 2828 data entry in the national personnel system for 15–22 May and 18–30 September 2025. Its work plan lists May, September and December as processing months. The Ministry of Family and Social Services defines eligibility for this statutory employment route. [3, 4]
The Personnel Department publishes practical guidance for candidates placed under Law No. 2828. [15]
SAÜ accepted applications for its Article 4/B contract staff call from 8 to 25 September 2025. The Personnel Department published separate support-staff selection lists for women and men. It set 31 October as the deadline for principal candidates to submit documents and subsequently invited reserve candidates. [16, 17, 18]
The Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture reserved 10% of the places in each of three programmes for eligible applicants with disabilities. Applications for Painting, Ceramics and Glass, and Traditional Turkish Arts were open from 11 to 24 August. After the 3 September examinations, the faculty published disability-route rankings, including a main selection list for Painting and reserve lists for the other two programmes. [1, 2, 8]
The Institute of Natural Sciences publishes a special application route for applicants with disabilities and first-degree relatives of people officially recognised as martyrs. Article 6 sets a combined limit of one place per semester across thesis-based master’s programmes. [19]
In the 2025 YKS guide, 63 places across SAÜ bachelor’s programmes were designated for eligible women aged 34 or over. [20]
In autumn 2025 SAÜ publicised the ESPS scholarship call for eligible students under temporary or international protection. Student Affairs separately published the tuition-fee exemption for eligible students residing in Gaza for the 2024–2025 academic year. [21, 22]
The faculty published examination results for five candidates under the disability route in Painting and recorded one successful candidate on the main selection list. [30, 2]
Article 3(5) of the thesis-based master’s rules exempts eligible applicants to the specified Turkish-medium conservatory and fine arts programmes from submitting a foreign-language test score. Applicants document eligibility with a report from a state or state-university hospital. [9]
The Business School’s international recruitment strategy assigns the Dean’s Office and department chairs responsibility for identifying candidates in cooperation with International Relations. On 29 May 2025 the Senate approved its directive on employing and evaluating foreign-national academic staff (713/4). The 2025 Activity Report records 29 international academic staff in post at year end. [3, 5, 6, 7]
The Gender Equality Plan 2022–2025 provides for measures to improve women’s representation in decision-making bodies, equality in appointment and promotion, and women’s participation in research. The Senate approved the plan on 23 February 2023. [23, pp. 5, 8–9 and 13]
The University’s published Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy names refugee and asylum status among its protected characteristics. Its 2024 sustainability account describes an employment forum for people with disabilities held on 6 December 2024. [24, 25]
The Sustainability Report 2025 places this work within strategic objectives 4.3 and 4.4 on internationalisation and institutional capacity. The Rectorate had designated 2025 the University’s Internationalisation Year. The updated strategic plan also identifies a need for inclusive access to education, and the 2025 YKS registration notice directs incoming students with disabilities to the support office. The Faculty’s admissions records and the Personnel Department’s work plan identify the specific recruitment measures described above. [1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13]
In August 2025 the Faculty of Education announced funding for EDİM, a project designed to support the transition from special education to work experience with Hendek Municipality. [14]
A University report published on 4 June 2025 describes the Equality at Work session, where İŞKUR explained public-sector employment routes for people with disabilities. The University also reported staff training in Turkish Sign Language and work by its disability coordination office. These activities document awareness and support. [26, 27, 28, 29]
Figure 1. Personnel Department 2025 work plan, PDF p. 15. The full May entry identifies the unit responsible for processing the Law No. 2828 employment route. Source [3]
Figure 2. Personnel Department work plan, May 2025. The entry schedules processing under Law No. 2828 for 15–22 May. Source [3]
Figure 3. Special-talent examination guide, PDF p. 7. Item 11 reserves 10% of each department’s places for eligible applicants with disabilities. Source [1]
Figure 4. Institute of Natural Sciences special-conditions graduate admissions procedure, PDF p. 1. Source [19]
Figure 5. January employment proposal entry. The planned window is 1–31 January 2025 (PDF p. 2). Source [3]
Figure 6. Business School Strategic Plan, PDF p. 24. Strategy D2.3 assigns responsibilities for identifying and recruiting international academic staff. Source [5]
Figure 7. Institutional commitments on representation in decision-making. PDF p. 5. Source [23]
Figure 8. Plan objectives for women’s participation in research. PDF p. 13. Source [23]
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