Evaluate Professional and Amateur Athletes’ Social Insurances with Legal Aspects in Turkey

Abstract

With this study, we aimed to evaluate professional and amateur athletes’ social insurances with legal aspects in Turkey.In thisstudy -which was prepared by making use of descriptive analysis- related laws, regulations and literature were reviewed andthe recent situation was demonstrated by researching the obtained resources. It’s understood that professional and amateurAthletes’ contracts are a sort of service contracts, but neither group is subject to Labor Law No. 4857, therefore they cannotdemand severance pay, notice pay or annual leave; and that general and special provisions of Law on Debts No. 6098 wereimplemented for the athletes who signed a contract with a club; and it is also understood that state athletes, jockeys and foreignathletes were subject to the Law On Social Insurance and General Health Insurance No.5510; and that, amateur athletes whohave a contract with a club were evaluated in the scope of private health insurance, despite that, amateur athletes withoutcontract to any club aren’t subject to social insurance provisions.