The "2027 Active Officer Recruitment Announcement" of the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was published in the Official Gazette.
According to the announcement, 135 active-duty officers, who will be recruited to be assigned to the Gendarmerie General Command headquarters and affiliated units and institutions, will receive training at the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy.
APPLICATIONS WILL END ON 26 OCTOBER
Applications will start on October 12, 2026 and end at 23.59 on October 26, 2026. Candidates will be able to apply only by logging into the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy Personnel Recruitment System via e-Government. Applications made by mail or in person will not be taken into consideration.
Candidates whose applications are accepted and who qualify to participate in the selection exams, as well as the application principles, centers and dates of the exams, will be announced in the Personnel Recruitment System.
UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATION AND AGE REQUIREMENTS
Candidates must be citizens of the Republic of Turkey and graduate from at least four-year undergraduate departments or programs specified in the application guide, or from higher education institutions abroad whose equivalence is accepted by the Council of Higher Education. Candidates who can graduate by January 2027, which is stated as the possible temporary registration date, can also apply.
According to the uncorrected population registry, as of January 1, 2026, there is a requirement to be 27 years old for undergraduate graduates or candidates who can graduate until the provisional registration date, and 32 years of age for candidates who have completed their postgraduate education. Accordingly, those born on or after January 1, 1999 in the first group, and those born on or after January 1, 1994 in those who have completed their postgraduate education will be able to apply.
The requirements include having a positive security investigation and archive research, not being pregnant, and meeting other conditions specified in the application guide.
QUOTAS BY BRANCHES
79 quotas were allocated for the gendarmerie branch, 11 for fortifications, 10 for communications, 7 for maintenance, 4 for law, and one each for supply and veterinary. Two officers will be recruited each in the branches of finance, civil engineering, medicine and dentistry.
In teaching branches, three quotas were determined for physical education, four each for law and English, and one quota each for guidance, Italian and French.
Of the total quota, 116 were reserved for male candidates and 12 for female candidates. In addition, in the gendarmerie branch, places were reserved for 6 male and 1 female candidates within the scope of "martyr or duty disabled quotas".
THERE IS NO KPSS AND ALES REQUIREMENT FOR DOCTORS AND DENTISTS
In the score table of the announcement, KPSS P3 and ALES equal weight scores were stated as 65 for the branches of gendarmerie, engineering, communication, supply, maintenance, finance, civil engineering, physical education teaching, guidance teaching, law teaching and veterinary.
In the branches of English, Italian and French teaching, there were 65 points for KPSS P3 and ALES for equal weight, and 85 points for YDS. In the law branch, KPSS P4 and ALES equal weight scores were determined as 70. KPSS and ALES requirements will not be required in medical and dentistry branches.
Undergraduate departments and programs that can be applied to and other conditions will be included in the application guide. The guide will be published on the public announcements page of the Gendarmerie General Command, the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy, the Presidency of Strategy and Budget, and the Career Gate.
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