Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Turkey)

Ministry functions

The Turkish Ministry of Tourism assigns inspectors who inspect tourism investments and enterprises. This includes inspecting safety measures.

One of the responsibilities of the ministry is the preservation of manuscripts, so they are available and accessible to researchers.

Trivia

In promoting the country, the ministry often created promotional films for the country. In 2015, the ministry gained controversy after axing a scene from a $4 million-dollar promotional involving Julianne Moore due to her allegedly "poor acting". Ruhsar Demirel, of the Nationalist Movement Party, asked social affairs minister Ayşenur İslam: "How reasonable do you find promoting Turkey with the body of such names and women? How do you find, as a woman, giving plenty of money to a Hollywood star to promote Turkey, as if it were the 19th century?", and other politicians criticised her for a "depressive persona".

In June 2018, the Ministry has sent a directive to the head of the excavations team in Turkey notifying them that according to a new regulation, 51 percent of archaeological excavation teams led by foreign crews should consist of Turkish nationals, the key posts in excavations such as archaeologist, anthropologist, art historian, restaurateur, architect, and photographer, should be reserved for Turkish citizens.

References

References

1. [http://dosim.kulturturizm.gov.tr/en/aboutus DÖSİMM page]
2. (2018-07-10). "İşte Erdoğan'ın açıkladığı kabine listesi". [[Cumhuriyet]].
3. "Turizm Yatırım, İşletme ve Kuruluşlarının Denetimi Hakkında Yönetmelik".
4. "Manuscripts".
5. (1 April 2015). "Julianne Moore cut from Turkey tourist board ad for 'poor acting'". The Guardian.
6. "Turkish Airlines Gets In On The YouTuber Film Trend With ‘Non-Transferable’".
7. (23 February 2016). "How Do You Make a Movie in Europe With Almost No Budget?". Huffington Post.
8. [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-regulation-imposes-turkish-majority-crew-rule-for-archeological-excavations-133598 New regulation imposes 'Turkish majority crew' rule for archeological excavations]