Something I have learnt very quickly here is that the basic employment legalities that would be a given in the UK are more or less completely disregarded in Turkey. There is no such thing as a binding contract. Employment is transient and can be lost or gained within one day. In this city things are constantly shifting.
75% of the foreign teachers here do not have a work permit. I myself was told very early on that I should not expect one.You can imagine that this was at first slightly unnerving for an English girl used to everything being done by the book. However, despite my (and my mother's) initial anxieties, I have come to quite like the idea of living on the wrong side of the law...
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