The editors of the OURNAL OF ORIENTAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH are responsible for the publication, rejection, or return of manuscripts in accordance with academic values or criteria.

- Editors may decide to send a manuscript to a referee or to reject it without sending it to a referee.
- Editors may consult with the editor and advisory board members regarding the publication process.
- Authors are subject to evaluation based on academic criteria without discrimination in terms of race, religion, language, ethnic origin, gender, political opinion, title, institutional affiliation, etc.
- In case of conflict of interest, the author, referee and editor are responsible to each other. In cases where there is a competition of interest between the author, editor and referee, the parties are obliged to state this situation.
- Board members other than the editors cannot have information about the identity of the author. This information is not shared with third parties.
- Articles published in the journal can be shared, copied and distributed provided that references are given. However, it cannot be used for commercial purposes.
- If there is a published article, table, picture, quotation, etc. in the article, the author must obtain written permission from the owner of the publication right and indicate this.
- The articles must comply with scientific and ethical rules and the responsibility lies with the authors.
- Journal of Şarkiyat does not have any pricing policy for article submission, evaluation and access.
- Journal of Şarkiyat strictly adheres to international ethical rules.
- Plagiarism check is carried out for the articles sent to the journal

CODE OF ETHICS
- Separate ethics committee approval must be obtained for research in all disciplines, including social sciences, and for clinical and experimental human and animal studies that require ethics committee approval, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article.
- Researches requiring Ethics Committee approval are as follows:
o All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques
o Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
o Clinical research on humans,
o Research on animals,
o Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data,
o In addition, in case presentations, stating that the "informed consent form" has been obtained, obtaining and indicating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others, stating that copyright regulations are complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used.
- Journal of Şarkiyat is committed to fulfil ethical duties and responsibilities on the basis of Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

REFEREE PROCESS
- Submitted articles are firstly evaluated by the editors.
- Journal of Oriental Studies uses a two-sided blind review method.
- Since the copyright of the articles sent to the referees for review belongs to the authors, the referees and editors cannot publicly discuss, copy, disseminate or share the article.
- At the editorial stage (before the referee process):
o Articles that are not within the scope of the journal
o Not considered sufficient in terms of language and expression rules
o Contains scientific errors
o Manuscripts that do not comply with the publication policies of the journal are rejected.
- Rejected manuscripts may be resubmitted if there are requests for correction after these requests are met.
- Manuscripts deemed suitable for evaluation are sent to two referees who are experts in their fields. The referees report their evaluations through the system.
- If one of the two referees reports a negative evaluation, the manuscript is sent to a third referee.
- If 2 out of 3 referees give positive approval, the article is published.
- The duration of the referees is 15 days.
- Referees review the manuscript
o Can refuse
o Can request major/minor correction
o May accept.
- Referees are determined according to their expertise and interests.

Author Obligations
- The manuscripts submitted by the authors are expected to be original and of scientific value.
- Authors are required to cite and quote correctly.
- The person or persons who do not contribute to the content of the text should not be indicated as an author.
- Conflicts of interest, if any, should be disclosed during the application.
- Authors must have the rights to use the data and the necessary research permissions. It should be undertaken that the studies have ethics committee approval and permissions for experimental research and this should be stated in the text. Otherwise, it is accepted that the study may be rejected.
- Authors cannot submit their work to more than one journal at the same time.
- A published study cannot be submitted to Hafıza again.
- Requests for changes such as adding new authors, removing authors, changing the order after the evaluation process has started cannot be accepted.
- Papers should not be presented as a paper in meetings, symposiums or congresses.