With an addition to the Law no. 657 on Civil Servants, Article 48, candidates now also have to undergo “security investigation and / or archive check” before becoming civil servants (Executive Decree 676 Article 74).
An addition was made to the Article 7 of the Executive Decree 399 on the Regulation of the Personnel Regime in the State Owned Enterprises and Abrogation of Certain Articles of the Executive Decree 233, such that “passing the security investigation and / or archive check” became a criterion for personnel to be recruited in the public sector (Executive Decree 680 Article 84).
In the first article of the Law on Security Investigation, Restitution of the Rights of Public Employees Dismissed for Certain Reasons and not Accepted to Public Duty, and Revision of the Law no. 1402 on Martial Law, the list of those to be subjected to security and archive check was changed from “military, General Directorate of Security” to “General Staff, Ministry of National Defense, Gendarmerie, General Directorate of Security, Coast Guard” (Executive Decree 694 Article 87).