With the proposed law, which also includes regulations on energy and social security, the Law on the Organization, Duties and Powers of the Gendarmerie is being amended, in line with the annulment decision of the Constitutional Court. Thus, the basic principles and framework regarding the qualifications to be sought for active-duty officer and petty officer candidates to be employed in the Gendarmerie General Command and the Coast Guard Command and the candidates to be admitted to faculties and vocational schools, and the procedures and principles of the examinations to be applied to the applicants are determined.
With the amendment made to the Vocational Education Law, the duration of the extension authority granted to the President in the state contribution to the wages given to candidate apprentices, apprentices, students receiving vocational training in enterprises, students who continue internship or complementary education will be increased to 15 academic and educational years, one academic year at a time. The President will be authorized to determine the procedures and principles regarding the implementation of state support. The regulation will enter into force on the date of its publication, effective from September 14, 2026.
With the amendment made to the Unemployment Insurance Law, the incentive given to provide additional employment and to support the employment of women, young people and unemployed people who have documents related to vocational and technical education that require special policies will continue until December 31, 2028, and the President will be authorized to extend the application until December 31, 2029.
In line with the annulment decision of the Constitutional Court, the Natural Gas Market Law is being amended. Floating LNG terminals may be allowed to leave their locations and provide services in other regions within a certain period and scope by the Energy Market Regulatory Board, with the opinion of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources.
All kinds of taxes, funds and shares that BOTAŞ must pay to the collection offices affiliated with the Ministry of Commerce between 31 December 2026 and 31 December 2027 will be canceled monthly by the Ministry of Commerce by offsetting, without associating them with the income and expense accounts of the central government budget, against BOTAŞ's assignment receivables from the Treasury and/or to be formed by the end of 31 December 2027, and accessory receivables related to all kinds of tax principals to be canceled will not be calculated.
BOTAŞ's accounting records and documents will be taken as basis in calculating the assignment fee subject to offset within the scope of this regulation. If the assignment fee calculated as a result of the examination carried out in accordance with the procedure stipulated in the Decree Law on Public Economic Enterprises is determined to be less than the cancellation amounts made by the Ministry of Commerce, the obligations will be fulfilled by BOTAŞ without interest and the said amount will be recorded as income to the General Budget.
Offset and cancellation transactions within the scope of this provision will not prevent the payment of assignment fees other than the amounts to be offset due to the cancellation decision. It will not eliminate the administration's authority to pay these fees or limit its time. Within the scope of this regulation, the Minister of Treasury and Finance will be authorized to determine the amount that BOTAŞ will receive from the Treasury for the assignment fee and to determine the cancellation procedures to be carried out by offsetting.
The amendment made to the Police Higher Education Law in line with the annulment decision of the Constitutional Court aims to provide a legal basis for the conditions to be sought for students to be admitted to police vocational schools, to bring the restrictions on the right to education and training in line with the principle of legality, to ensure legal certainty and predictability, and to ensure that the administration's regulatory authority is used within constitutional limits.
The Law on the Use of Renewable Energy Resources for the Purpose of Electrical Energy Production is being regulated. Accordingly, the allocation of renewable energy resource areas and connection capacities will be made through a competition. The scope of the competition, technical and administrative conditions, other information and which of the closed bidding, auction or auction methods will be applied in the competition will be specified in the competition specifications, taking into account the technical and administrative characteristics and connection capacity of the renewable energy resource areas.
If requested by the facility owner for facilities within the scope of unlicensed generation activity that have completed their 10-year period and have an electrical installed power of at least 750 kilowatts, if the hourly market clearing price in the electricity market during the license period is more than the current RES Support Mechanism price applied on the basis of facility type within the scope of the relevant provision of the regulation, licensed production activity can be started on the condition that the price difference and the license fee are paid as a contribution fee to the RES Support Mechanism. For applications within this scope, the license fee to be applied per megawatt, not to exceed 30 percent of the current unit investment amount based on the source determined by the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA), the license period and other issues regarding the transition to licensed production activities will be determined by EMRA.
With the proposal, temporary provisions are added to the Social Security and General Health Insurance Law. Accordingly, if the total accrual amount for the treatment services provided to the Social Insurance Institution (SGK) by public university health service providers, with whom a lump sum service purchase contract was made in 2026, within the scope of this contract until December 31, 2026, is lower than the lump sum contract amount, the difference will be cancelled. The canceled amount will be covered from the appropriation allocated to the Ministry budget for this purpose. The procedures and principles regarding this provision will be determined by SSI, taking the opinion of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance.
According to the regulation, the collection of all ancillary receivables such as unpaid general health insurance premiums and late payment fines and late payment interest dating back to before January 1, 2017 will be waived. Premiums paid for the periods in question until the date of publication of this provision will not be refunded or offset.
According to the proposal, the corporate tax to be applied to precious metal and oil refineries engaged in production activities, tobacco products and alcoholic beverage producers and institutions engaged in electrical energy production activities will be excluded from the reduced rate application. This provision will come into force from the date of its publication to be applied to the earnings obtained in 2027 and subsequent taxation periods, and to the earnings of institutions subject to the special accounting period, earned in the special accounting period starting in 2027 and the following taxation periods.
According to the amendment made to the Electricity Market Law, the fees to be charged per megawatt for electrical capacity increases made by production license holders based on wind or solar energy will be determined by TEİAŞ within the framework of the principles of ensuring supply security, not exceeding 50 percent of the current unit investment amount determined by the Authority on a resource basis. The determined fees will be collected by TEİAŞ in lump sum before the license amendment. The collected fees will be recorded as income to TEİAŞ.
A regulation is being made in the provision titled "Outsourcing services and applicable provisions" of the Law on Certain Investment Funds That Have Been Decided to be Liquidated. Accordingly, those who are assigned to work and transactions related to the Law, deposit banks and participation banks and development and investment banks that carry out liquidation or transfer and acquisition transactions in connection with these processes, and the persons they assign to carry out such actions and transactions, will not have legal, administrative and financial liabilities due to the decisions they have taken and the actions and transactions they have taken regarding their duties as of September 17, 2026, except for their criminal acts. This provision will enter into force on the date of publication of the regulation, effective from September 17, 2026.
