Dear KU International Community, We would like to announce that we have reformatted our Weekly News for KU’s International Community. We have been creating, collecting content, editing, and publishing them weekly on KU Daily since April 1st, 2020. The outbreak of COVID-19 let us start such an initiative for the KU international community. The initial aim was to inform the community about the latest COVID-19 related news and to guide them to appropriate sources. Therefore, we started publishing our first issue as News Update. It then evolved to be an inevitable service of our office. We wanted to cover more topics related to our international community, news particularly from Istanbul that affects their lives. The name of our publication was then changed to Weekly News as of November 20th, 2020. The appreciation comments and suggestions helped us continue our service since they were of great motivation for us. By taking the feedback we received and our experience on publishing weekly news into consideration, we’ve decided to switch the format of the Weekly News and the platform we publish it.

Starting from January 15, 2021, the HES code will be an obligation for public transportation in Istanbul. The passengers must register their HES codes to their Istanbulkarts.

According to the latest update from the immigration authorities, those who apply for a residence permit should not depart from Türkiye until they are notified either by an email or an SMS regarding the evaluation of their applications. 

As COVID-19 cases are increasing in Türkiye, we wanted to remind the university management’s regulation on campus entries.

We are very pleased to welcome you to Koç University (KU) as the International Community Services Office.

According to the latest regulations, those who want to enter a public institution or to have intercity travel using public transportation (bus, plane, or train) in Türkiye are obliged to obtain a special code (HES- Hayat Eve Sığar- Code).

The Directorate General of Migration Management has announced that there will be no entry ban imposed on the foreigners who could not exit from Türkiye due to the Covid-19 epidemic for their violations of the legal right to stay between the dates of force majeure (in such a way to cover the dates from the date when the transportation is stopped to the date when it will return to its normal course).

We are happy to announce that we have launched our Instagram page, @icokocuniv. Please follow us to keep updated about our announcements, events, news, tips and more.

Depending on the transaction you want to proceed, you might need to register your address. Below you can find several transactions that require an Address Registration Certificate: