Prof. Dr. Cahit Talas was one of the pioneers of the social policy discipline in Türkiye and served as Dean of Mülkiye and Minister of Labour. The Mülkiyeliler Union established an award in his memory. The results of the 2026 evaluation for this award, which has been presented since 2012 to doctoral dissertations in the field of social policy with contributions from the Tez-Koop-İş Trade Union, have been announced.

Dr. Göktan Görmezöz, an Internal Auditor at the Turkish Employment Agency, completed his doctoral research in the Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations at our Faculty under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Oğuz Karadeniz. Görmezöz’s dissertation, titled “The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Job Search Duration and Jobs Obtained in Türkiye: A Comparison Between Benefit Recipients and Non-Recipients,” was one of the two dissertations selected for the award by this year’s jury.

With this result, the Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations has received the Prof. Dr. Cahit Talas Social Policy Award for the eighth time.