Following the system change that came with the June 24th elections, state archives like many institutions were linked to the presidency. Since 1987, the expert staff who work in the Ottoman Archives Department and who have been collecting, summarizing and cataloging documents for many years have been taken from their duties by saying "Need is more". The 30-year-old proficient archival staff, left to the civil servant pool, learned from the information desk of the State Personnel Presidency on August 11th that they were assigned to different institutions. The staff, who underwent a huge shake under the name of 'saving', expect to return to this mistake as soon as possible.
In the long-neglected state archives, in 1986 a large sorting activity was undertaken. The Ottoman-speaking personnel graduated from the history, literature, and theology departments of universities were selected by examinations and a contractual basis was initiated. Since 1987, documents have been sorted, culled, summarized, and cataloged by extracting documents from the stack. The documents have been successfully restored. Up to today, 45 million documents have been classified.
Yüksel Baycar, President of the Turkish Archives Association, said in a statement to the relevant journalist, "We learned that at the 11th Presidential Decree, we were left in the pool while waiting for the statement" that the State Archives personnel are connected to the Presidential Office in connection with this. " Baycar said, "I can not remember clearly when I am passing a different assignment on our minds. May 13th. We learned that approximately 250 people were sent to different institutions on the information screen of the State Personnel Department. Such as the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, the Treasury and the Ministry of Finance. Of course we all have had a very serious shock. There are 30-31 years of people here. There are 2 year old people, but everybody is here with the exams taken. Staff trained in Ottoman language. Some of us have been specially trained in restoration. Personnel specially trained in original document repair. We are not institutionalized anyway. Why we were all sent to a great confusion." he said.
Baycar, "As the Turkish Archives Association, we announced the situation to the public and said it was wrong. Because the real mistake is that we are not the people who are out of the bosom. If we can not find a job to give us there, we will come to the people who come to us from other institutions and sit idle. But that's not true. Because we are the staff who knows Ottoman. Instead of sitting idle in other institutions and getting an empty salary, we have to hire our own agency and do our own work. Our state was suffering from the loss, we took note of the issue for this. I think there is a possibility that this mistake is going to turn around." he said.