Work of Turkish citizens without a work permit

A Turkish citizen legally employed in the labor market of an EU Member State has the right to:

• after one year of legal employment, to renew a work permit for the same employer in the same position;
• after three years of legal employment and subject to the priority of workers from the Member States of the Community, acceptance, in the same profession with any employer, of a job offer under normal conditions and registered by the employment services of that Member State;
• after four years of legal employment, free access to any contracted job.

Source: 

Decision No. 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association Council of September 19, 1980 issued on the basis of  Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Turkey, signed on 12 September 1963 in Ankara by the Republic of Turkey on the one hand and by the EEC member states and the Community on the other (the Agreement was concluded, approved and ratified on behalf of the latter by a decision of the Council 64/732 / EEC of 23 December 1963 (Journal of Laws of 1964, 217, p. 3685).