ABSTRACT

The right to social security has been accepted in most of the modern constitutions as a basic human right. The main purpose of the social security systems, which allows the use of the right to social security, is to protect individuals against social and economic risks. Especially, some of our citizens who went abroad to work since 1960s had no work in Turkey as subjected to any social security institutions. In addition, at the time it was thought that these people would surely return to Turkey after a certain time. As a result, the problems regarding social security of our citizens who went abroad as labour migration has increased over time. For these reasons, provision of social security of our citizens who are living abroad has become a significant problem. In order to solve these problems the solution of obtaining social security through service borrowing for the working periods which are spent working abroad has come to the agenda. Thus, the concept of “abroad service borrowing” has become regulating by laws, regulations and circulars. In our article, initially, the concepts of service borrowing and abroad service borrowing have been analysed, then the latest amendments on the abroad service borrowing system that are being done with Act No. 6552 of 11.09.2014, the judicial decisions and applications of the Social Security Institution SSI has been evaluated