YÖK Ulusal Tez Merkezi — Turkish National Thesis Search

YÖK Ulusal Tez Merkezi (the Higher Education Council's National Thesis Center) is the single mandatory repository for every Turkish graduate thesis — yüksek lisans (master's), doktora (doctorate), tıpta/diş/eczacılıkta uzmanlık (medical/dental/pharmacy specialty), and sanatta yeterlik (art proficiency). It is the authoritative source for two faculty workflows this skill serves:

1. Literature discovery — finding existing Turkish dissertations for a review, by topic, danışman (advisor), university, or year.
2. Pre-proposal özgünlük (originality) checks — before a supervisor approves a student's thesis topic, scanning whether the same work already exists or is embargoed-but-registered.

This skill is discovery + metadata harvesting + citation, not bulk full-text download (full text is online-view-only — see access model below).

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