Turkey

In addition to the foregoing general directorates gathering upper secondary education institutions under their structure, the organizational structure of MEB also encloses General Directorate for Special Education Guidance and Counseling Services (Ozel Eğitim Rehberlik ve Danışma Hizmetleri Genel Mudurluğu). In principle, individuals in need of special education attend to special education institutions and/or other general, vocational and technical upper secondary education institutions for their upper secondary education by means of merger. The individuals in need of special education and graduated from primary education institutions and decided to be oriented to general, vocational and technical upper secondary education institutions are placed to these institutions as boarding students without being subject to any examination within the framework of cooperation with relevant units. The graduates wishing to educate as boarding students and decided to be oriented towards high schools implementing multiple curricula and vocational high schools are offered with sufficient quota upon evaluation of the possibilities of the nearest boarding schools. Boarding and/or day upper secondary education institutions implementing multiple curricula where merger application for the pupils in need of special education in the vocational and technical high schools to the extend of their interests, desires, skills and competencies are established. Furthermore, upper secondary education institutions offering education on fine arts, vocational and technical education or business training centers or business schools in upper secondary education system are established in order to allow pupils to be oriented towards higher education, business and profession proportional to their competencies (Ozel Eğitim Hizmetleri Yonetmeliği Article 28).