Resignation in Turkish Administrative Law

Entering the public service is a political and constitutional right granted for every citizen. Each Turkish citizen freely has the right to enter public services within the framework of merit and equity principles. Persons have the right to enter public service, as well as the right to progress, promote and leave this public service. The right to leave the public service has been regulated as a way of resignation in the law. The resignation is expressed as both one of the situation of ending civil servant and as a right in Civil Servants Law No. 657, which is the basic code in terms of public personnel law. The resignation is public servants' leaving from civil servant duty in writing by their own will and desire. A resignation is a one-sided, non-consensual legal act and it is strictly bounded to personality right. Public officials can not be banned or forced to resign from their duties in any way. However, public officials use these rights within the framework of some rules required by the continuity of public services. This thesis study is mainly aimed to present the resignation institution specified in the Turkish Administrative Law in detail. In this regard, in our study, the definition, nature and types of resignation institution and its comparison with other similar terms under administration law is explained. Subsequently, some matters as to resignation of public officials such as procedure and legal results of the resignation, recantation, possibility of reinstatement are examined in detail.