Our journal adheres to national and international standards of research and publication ethics.
National Legislation
• Press Law
• Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works
• Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive
International Legislation
• Committee on Publication Ethics
• Directory of Open Access Journals

Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
ARTICLE 4 - (1) Acts against scientific research and publication ethics are as follows
• Plagiarism: Presenting the original ideas, methods, data or works of others as one's own work in whole or in part without citation in accordance with scientific rules,
• Forgery: Using non-existent or falsified data in scientific research,
• Distortion: Falsifying research records or data obtained, falsifying devices or materials that were not used in the research, falsifying or shaping the results of the research in line with the interests of the persons and organizations receiving support,
• Republishing: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
• Slicing: Inappropriately and inappropriately dividing the results of a research into parts in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and publishing them in more than one issue and presenting these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
• Unfair authorship: Including or excluding people who have not actively contributed, changing the author ranking in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of active contributors from the work in subsequent editions, using one's influence to have one's name included among the authors even though one has not actively contributed,

Click here to get information about other types of ethical violations in the Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics of Higher Education Institutions.

Appeals, Complaints and Ethical Violation Notifications
Readers can send an e-mail to jms@artuklu.edu.tr if they notice a significant error or inaccuracy in an article published in Artuklu Kurdology Journal or if they have any complaints about the editorial content (plagiarism, duplicate articles, objections, complaints, etc.). Objections, complaints and notifications to our journal will be evaluated in accordance with COPE principles.

ETHICS COMMITTEE APPROVAL
Our journal requires that the relevant ethics committee decision must be obtained for all studies in all disciplines that require ethics committee permission. In this context, information about the ethics committee approval (name of the committee, date and decision number) should be clearly stated in the text of the article. In case reports, the information that the informed consent form has been obtained should be included in the article.
In line with the regulations implemented by Ulakbim TR Index since 2020, studies that do not have ethics committee permission are not evaluated in our journal.

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
In our journal, researches that require ethics committee permission include the following studies:
• All research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that involve collecting data from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, experiments and interview techniques,
• Studies in which humans and animals (including materials or data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical trials conducted on humans,
• Scientific research on animals,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
In order for such studies to be included in the evaluation, the relevant ethics committee permissions must be obtained and these permissions must be clearly stated in the text of the article.
Note: Scientific research on humans and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE guidelines and must be approved by the relevant ethics committee. Studies without ethics committee approval are not evaluated in our journal.

Research Ethics Principles
Artuklu Kurdology Journal observes the highest standards in research ethics and adopts the international research ethics principles defined below. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the articles comply with ethical rules.
• The principles of integrity, quality and transparency should be ensured in the design, review of the design and conduct of the research.
• The research team and participants should be fully informed about the purpose of the research, its methods and possible anticipated uses, and the requirements and risks, if any, of participation in the research.
• Confidentiality of information provided by research participants and confidentiality of respondents must be ensured. The research should be designed to protect the autonomy and dignity of the participants.
• Research participants should take part in the research voluntarily and should not be under any coercion.
• Harm to participants should be avoided. The research should be planned in a way that does not put participants at risk.
• Research independence must be clear and explicit; any conflict of interest must be stated.
• In experimental studies with human subjects, written informed consent must be obtained from participants who decide to participate in the research. Consent must be obtained from the legal guardian of children and those under guardianship or with a confirmed mental illness.
• If the study will be carried out in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from this institution or organization that the study will be conducted.
• In studies with a human element, it should be stated in the text of the article that “informed consent” was obtained from the participants and ethics committee approval was obtained from the institution where the study was conducted.

Publication Ethics Principles

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editors may consider publishing a correction if they find minor errors in a published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations or conclusions. However, they may consider retracting the article if there are major errors or violations that could invalidate the findings and conclusions.
Editors may consider issuing a statement of concern if there is a possibility that the authors may have misused the research or publication, there is evidence that the findings are unreliable, and the institutions to which the authors are affiliated have not investigated the situation or the investigation appears inadequate or inconclusive.
In such cases of correction, retraction or expression of concern, our journal is based on the COPE guidelines.

Plagiarism Check
Plagiarism is presenting the ideas, methods, data, practices, writings, forms or works of others as one's own work in whole or in part without citing their owners in accordance with scientific rules.
Our journal screens all submitted articles to prevent plagiarism. Studies submitted for review are checked for plagiarism using iThenticate software. The similarity rate is expected to be less than 20%. Studies exceeding this rate will be rejected at the preliminary review stage.
If plagiarism is detected in a study published in our journal or in the evaluation process, the following steps are meticulously applied:
• The plagiarism detection is officially notified to the university to which the author is affiliated and cooperation is made to initiate the necessary legal proceedings.
• The PDF copy of the relevant article will be removed from the journal's website and links to the article will be disabled. “Plagiarized Article” will be added to the title of the article and the violation will be publicly stated.
• The account of the author responsible for plagiarism will be closed and the author will be banned indefinitely from submitting any future articles to our journal.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Our journal is responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all published articles and the rights of the journal and the author(s) in cases where these rights are violated. In addition, our journal must take the necessary measures to prevent the content of all published articles from infringing the intellectual property rights of other publications.

Protection of Personal Information
All personal data submitted to our journal are protected in accordance with legal regulations and ethical rules.

Conflict of Interest
Authors should clearly disclose any financial or other significant conflicts of interest that may influence their findings or interpretations in their manuscript. Potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed include consulting activities, salaries and grants. Such conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.

Financial Support
Authors should clearly declare the financial support provided by any organization within the scope of their work in the text of the article.

Change of Author
Only the article is processed before acceptance. Authors are required to carefully review the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the exact list of authors at the time of original submission.

Use of Artificial Intelligence
The use of artificial intelligence in processes that do not affect the originality of the article, such as literature review or language control, is acceptable in studies submitted to our journal. However, the use of artificial intelligence should be carried out within the framework of ethical rules and should never be used for unethical purposes such as fabricated data and manipulation.
For studies involving the use of artificial intelligence, it is mandatory to inform our journal about this situation at the article submission stage. All responsibility for the use of artificial intelligence lies with the authors themselves.

Publication of Studies Based on Surveys and Interviews
1) For research in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval (ethics committee approval must be obtained, this approval must be stated and documented in the article.
2) In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) and in case reports, information on the signature of the informed consent form should be included in the article.

Publisher's Responsibilities
• Adhering to COPE and other international ethical principles, establishing the necessary policies to prevent plagiarism and ethical violations.
• To observe intellectual property rights and ensure the protection of personal data.
• To determine the journal policies and to carry out the necessary work to be included in international indexes.
• To work to meet the infrastructure and other needs of the journal.
Note: All decisions made by the editors working in the journal are independent from the publisher. The relationship between editors and publishers is based on the principle of editorial independence.

Responsibilities of Editors
• Ensuring that the publication process is conducted in an ethical, impartial and transparent manner.
• To evaluate the compliance of articles with scientific standards, manage the referee process, resolve conflicts of interest and identify situations that are not in compliance with publication ethics.
• To carry out correction or withdrawal procedures in case errors or violations are detected in the articles.
Note: Editors give fair consideration based on the intellectual content of the article, regardless of the author(s)' gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political affiliation.

Authors' Responsibilities
• To prepare their work in accordance with ethical and scientific rules.
• Ensuring that the data in the manuscript are original and accurate, and not plagiarized, fabricated data or manipulated.
• To clearly declare any conflict of interest, financial support or contributors.
• Conducting research on human or animal subjects in accordance with international ethical principles. To obtain approval from the relevant ethics committee for such studies and to include the information regarding the approval in the text of the article.
• To act in harmony with the editors and reviewers in line with international ethical principles during or after the manuscript evaluation process.

Responsibilities of Reviewers
• Accepting only papers that fall within its field of expertise.
• To evaluate articles impartially in accordance with scientific, ethical and academic standards.
• Maintain confidentiality of study data during the evaluation process.
• To declare conflicts of interest during the evaluation process and to make comments in an objective and constructive manner.
• Informing editors in case of suspected plagiarism, data manipulation or ethical violations.

Publication Policies
• All processes and transactions of our journal are carried out through the DergiPark platform and there is no other website of our journal.
• The studies submitted to our journal should not have been published before and should not have been simultaneously submitted to another journal for evaluation.
• The submitted manuscripts should be in accordance with the purpose and scope of our journal and the spelling rules should be followed. Studies that do not meet the specified criteria will be returned to the authors at the preliminary review stage.
• Research articles, review articles, translation articles and book reviews are published in our journal.
• At most one work by one author can be published in the same issue.
• Studies prepared in Turkish, Kurdish and English are accepted for evaluation in our journal.
• All articles published in our journal are published as open access under the CC-BY-NC license and can be accessed free of charge from our archive page.
• Double Blind Reviewing is applied in the refereeing process. Authors and reviewers do not know each other's identities. Board members from within the journal (such as editors or editorial board members) who submit articles are suspended from the journal until the process is completed and are prevented from seeing the process.
• During the manuscript evaluation process, care is taken to ensure that the referees are experts in their field, hold at least a PhD degree, and do not work at the same institution as the author. In order to maintain double blind reviewing, our journal board members do not serve as reviewers.

Special Issue Publication Policy
Special issues can be published once a year in our journal in line with the decision of the Editorial Board. Articles submitted for special issues go through the same evaluation processes as the articles in our regular issues. These articles must comply with the journal's Editorial Guidelines and Ethical and Editorial Policies.

1- Special Issue on Classical Kurdish Literature
“Classical Kurdish Literature Special Issue” of our journal was made available to our readers on 20.10.2023. This issue was published under the editorship of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet KIRKAN. Please click here to access our special issue.

2- Zazaki and Zazas; Literature, Culture and Language
Our journal, “Zazaki and Zazalar; Literature, Culture and Language” was made available to our readers on 31.12.2020. This issue was published under the editorship of Chief Editor Dr. Şehmus KURT and Issue Editor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet KIRKAN. Please click here to access our special issue.

Price Policy
The publication of articles in the journal and the execution of article processes are not subject to any fee. No processing or submission fee is charged for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication.

Advertising Policy
Our journal does not accept sponsorship and advertising in accordance with its publication policies. All expenses of our journal are covered by Mardin Artuklu University.

Open Access Policy
The articles published in our journal are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. The full text of all published articles can be accessed free of charge at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/artuklukurdology/archive. Click here for detailed information.

Copyright Policy
The authors own the copyright of their works published in our journal and their works are licensed as CC BY-NC 4.0. Click here for detailed information.

Archiving and Data Distribution Policy
All works published in our journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS. Click here for detailed information.

Article Evaluation Process
The article evaluation process in our journal consists of 4 main titles as preliminary review, referee process, revision and publication. Click here for detailed information.

1- Preliminary Review
• The manuscript is reviewed by the editor for compliance with the journal's editorial guidelines, academic writing rules and APA 7 citation system, and is scanned for plagiarism using the iThenticate program. The similarity rate must be less than 20%. Manuscripts exceeding this rate are returned to the authors at the preliminary review stage.

2- Referee Process
• For manuscripts that pass the preliminary review stage, the Double Blind Review process is initiated. Within the scope of this process, the manuscript is sent to two referees who are experts in their fields for evaluation. During the refereeing process, the identities of the referees and authors are kept confidential and the process is carried out within the framework of the principle of confidentiality. In order for a study to be published in our journal, both referees must give a positive opinion. However, if one of the referees gives a positive opinion and the other a negative opinion, the manuscript is sent to a third referee for a final decision.

3- Revision Process
• If revisions are requested by the referees, authors should mark the changes in red. Revisions made in line with referee requests are evaluated and checked first by the editor and then by the referees.
• The manuscripts whose referee process is completed are reviewed by the language editors of our journal. If deemed necessary, language and spelling revisions are requested from the authors. Revisions made by the authors are reviewed and approved by the language editors.

4- Publication Process
• After undergoing technical, academic and linguistic reviews, the articles are typeset and edited, made ready for publication and published in the next issue.