The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) has adopted the development and distribution of information in an impartial and respectful manner. During the publication process, the authors expect readers, researchers, publishers, referees and editors to comply with the principles of ethical rules. According to the open access guidelines published by Higher Education Institutions (YÖK) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), these stakeholders should pay attention to the standard general and specific ethical rules and responsibilities shared below.

1. GENERAL ACTIONS AGAINST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS
a) Plagiarism: Presenting the ideas, methods, data, practices, writings, figures or works of others as their own work, in whole or in part, without attribution, in accordance with scientific ethical rules,
b) Fraud: To produce data that is not based on research, to edit or change the presented or published work on the basis of untrue data, to report or publish these, to present an unstudied research as if it has been done,
c) Distortion: To falsify research records and obtained data, to present methods, devices and materials that are not used in the research as if they were used, not to evaluate the data that are not in accordance with the research hypothesis, to manipulate the data or results in order to fit the relevant theory or assumptions, in line with the interests of the people and organizations that receive support. falsify or shape research results,
d) Duplicate Publication: To present more than one work containing the same results of a research as separate works in associate professor examination evaluations and academic promotions,
e) Slicing: Presenting the results of a research as separate works in certain exam evaluations and academic incentives and promotions by dividing the results of a research in a way that violates the integrity of the research, by dividing it into parts inappropriately and by making multiple publications without reference to each other,
f) Unfair Authorship: Adding people who do not have an active contribution to the article authors, not including those who have active contributions among the authors, changing the order of authors unjustifiably and inappropriately, removing the names of those who contributed actively from the work during publication or in subsequent editions, using their influence even though they have no active contribution. to include his name among the authors,
g) Other Types of Ethical Violations: Not clearly stating the supporting persons, institutions or organizations and their contributions to the research in the publications of supported research, not following the ethical rules in research on humans and animals, not respecting the rights of patients in their publications, to share the information contained in the work with others before it is published, to misuse the resources, places, facilities and devices provided or reserved for scientific research, to accuse completely baseless, groundless and intentional ethical violations (YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, Article 8).

2. STAKEHOLDER RESPONSIBILITIES
a) Editors' Responsibilities
The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) editor and assistant editors, Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (COPE) published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors) will provide the following ethical duties and responsibilities. :
- Editors are responsible for every publication published in The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS).
- Editors have the responsibility and authority to accept or reject articles. He has to use this responsibility and authority appropriately and on time.
- Editors should not have a conflict of interest regarding the articles they accept or reject.
- Editors should accept original articles that will contribute to the field.
- Editors should reject incomplete and erroneous research that does not comply with the journal policy, publication rules and level without any influence.
- Editors should allow incorrect, incomplete and problematic articles to be withdrawn before or after the referee's report, or to be published after they have been corrected.
- The editors ensure that the articles evaluated by at least two referees are evaluated according to the double-blind refereeing system and keep the referees confidential.
- Editors continue their business processes without compromising intellectual property rights and ethical standards.
- Editors take responsibility for plagiarism status of articles and unpublished original research through the “Turnitin and/or Ithenticate” plagiarism program.
- Editors take into account the knowledge, skills and experience that all readers, researchers and practitioners need.
- Editors take care that the published issues contribute to the reader, researcher, practitioner and scientific field, and that they are original.
- Editors ensure that all members of the advisory committee advance the processes in accordance with publication policies and guidelines.
- Editors inform the members of the advisory board about the publication policies.
- Editors allow advisory board members to evaluate their work independently.
- Editors can contribute to new advisory board members and make decisions accordingly.
- Editors should submit works that are appropriate to the expertise of advisory board members for consideration.
- Editors interact with the advisory board regularly.
- Editors hold regular meetings with the editorial board for editorial policies and journal development.
- The relationship between the editors (Editor and Associate Editors) and the publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. According to the written agreement between the editors and the publisher, all decisions of the editors are independent of the publisher and the journal owner.

b) Responsibilities of Authors
- All data in the article must be declared as true and original.
- Plagiarism, errors, suspicious situations and suggested corrections must be made as a result of the preliminary evaluation or the referee evaluation. If it will not be done, the reason should be given in a consistent manner.
- The "References" of the article or research should be prepared completely and in accordance with the spelling rules of our journal.
- Plagiarism and fake data should be avoided.
- The research should not be allowed to be published in more than one journal.

c) Responsibilities of the Referees
The management of our journal is committed to the successful execution and improvement of the refereeing process within the framework of ethical publishing rules. We welcome the stakeholders and readers of the studies to report plagiarism, duplicate publications, inaccuracies, suspicious content or situations they see in the reviews published in the The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) to tullisjournal@gmail.com. Informs the relevant parties about the data and results obtained on the subject and follows up. It is based on the referees' compliance with the following principles.
- Evaluations should be made impartially.
- There should be no conflict of interest between the reviewers and the stakeholders of the article.
- It should be pointed out that other articles, works, sources, citations, rules and similar deficiencies related to the article should be completed.
- Articles that have been evaluated based on the double-blind refereeing system or their referees are not disclosed.

3. PLAGIARISM POLICY
As of June 2016, The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) has started to check the studies submitted for publication through plagiarism programs (Turnitin or iThenticate). The author should also send the document showing the plagiarism rate with the work. Studies with a plagiarism rate of more than 15% (excluding references) are not evaluated and returned to the author. If a work published in the journal is found to be plagiarism, the Editorial Board reserves the right to take various actions, including retracting the article, reporting the issue to the department head, dean and/or relevant institutions in the institution where the author works.

4. OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) provides open access for the continuous and free use of its content in order to increase the global exchange of information and produce beneficial results for humanity. In this context, all articles published in the journal are accessible at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tullis/archive
The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) has adopted an open access policy with its publication. Open access increases the global exchange of information, resulting in beneficial results for humanity. The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) also supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative, adopted on 12 September 2012.
In this context, open access policies adopted by the editorial board of The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) are available at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-translations/turkish-translation.
All articles published in the The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) are licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative 4.0 International License". This license; grants the right to reproduce, share and disseminate all published articles, data sets, graphics and attachments on data mining applications, search engines, websites, blogs and all other platforms, provided that the source is cited. Open access is an approach that facilitates interdisciplinary communication and encourages different disciplines to work with each other. The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) provides added value to its field by providing more access to its articles and a more transparent evaluation process.
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The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) recommends that libraries include the content of the journal in the library catalog records within the scope of its open access policy.
The publisher of The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) undertakes not to charge subscriptions or fees for accessing electronic articles published from any library or reader.
As The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS), our DOI Number registration, provided by Crossref, has been started on January 3, 2018. All articles to be published in our journal will now have a DOI number. In this way, confusion has been avoided in the citations to all articles to be published in our journal, and you can access your articles uninterruptedly, precisely and easily whenever you want.

5. PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
The editors ensure the protection of personal data related to the subjects or images included in the evaluated work. Those who contribute to the journal (editors, authors and referees) are given documents showing their contributions upon request.

6. ETHICS COMMITTEE, HUMAN AND ANIMAL RIGHTS
Editors ensure the protection of human and animal rights in the reviewed works. The editors have the responsibility to refuse the study when there is no approval of the ethics committee on the subjects used in the study and there is no permission for experimental research. In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the method section and also on the first/last page of the article. In case reports, it is necessary to include information that the informed consent/consent form was signed in the article.

7. POSSIBLE ABUSE AND FRAUD MEASURES
Editors take precautions against possible abuse and misconduct. In addition to conducting a rigorous and objective investigation regarding the detection and evaluation of complaints regarding this situation, the responsibilities of the editor share the relevant findings with the competent authorities.

8. ENSURING ACADEMIC PUBLICATION INTEGRITY
Editors ensure that decisions that include errors, inconsistencies or misleading in the works are corrected quickly.

9. PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Editors are obliged to protect the intellectual property rights of all published articles and to defend the rights of the journal and authors in case of possible violations, and to take the necessary measures to ensure that the content of all published articles does not violate the intellectual property rights of other publications.

10. CONSTRUCTION AND DISCUSSION
Editors take into account the criticisms to be made against the works published in the journal and display a constructive attitude towards these criticisms in line with the purpose and scope of the journal. The authors of the criticized works have the right to reply. Studies with negative results are rejected.

11. COMPLAINTS
Editors are responsible for carefully reviewing complaints and responding to authors, reviewers or readers in an enlightening and explanatory manner.

12. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL CONCERNS
The owner of the journal, its publisher and no other political or commercial factor can influence the independent decisions of the editors.

13. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Editors assure and assure authors and reviewers that the publication process of the journal will be maintained independently and impartially.

14. PRIVACY STATEMENT
Personal information such as names and e-mail addresses entered in the journal management system of The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) will only be used for the scientific purposes of this journal. This information will not be used for any other purpose or department and will not be shared with third parties.

15. ARCHIVING POLICY
Metadata and full texts of all articles published in the The Journal of Turkic Language and Literature Surveys (TULLIS) are stored in XML and .pdf formats on a 3rd party cloud server in an inaccessible manner. In addition, all articles are stored and presented in .pdf format on ULAKBİM servers through TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Journals Database (DergiPark).

16. JOURNAL SECTION POLICY
Research Paper
+ Open Submissions + Indexed + Peer-reviewed
Review Article
+ Open Submissions + Indexed + Peer-reviewed
Compilation
+ Open Submissions + Indexed + Peer-reviewed
Translation
+ Open Submissions + Indexed + Peer-reviewed
Conference Paper
+ Open Submissions + Indexed + Peer-reviewed
Book Review
+ Open Submissions + Indexed + Peer-reviewed
Review Letter
+ Open Submissions + Indexed + Peer-reviewed
Interview
+ Open Submissions + Indexed - Peer-reviewed
Scientific News
+ Open Submissions + Indexed - Peer-reviewed
Opinion
+ Open Submissions + Indexed - Peer-reviewed
from the editor
- Open Submissions + Indexed - Peer-reviewed