Türkiye Maternity and Paternity Leave Calculator

How to use it

1. Under Status, choose the status of the person who takes the leave: employee (private or public), civil servant, 4/B contract staff or self-employed (Bağ-Kur).
2. Under Leave, choose maternity, paternity or adoption leave, or the father’s leave after the mother’s death.
3. For maternity leave, enter the date your doctor gave in Expected birth date; if you do not know it, use the due date calculator. After the birth, fill in Birth date.
4. Under Pregnancy, choose one baby or a multiple pregnancy. If you worked before the birth with a doctor’s approval, fill in Weeks worked before the birth.
5. For paternity leave, Birth date is required. For adoption, enter the Handover date and the child’s birth date.
6. For half-time work, choose Birth (or child) order and Child born disabled.
7. Press Calculate.

Formula

leave before the birth = (weeks before the birth − weeks worked) × 7 days

leave after the birth = weeks after the birth × 7 + weeks worked × 7 + unused days

paternity leave = birth day + paternity days − 1

adoption leave = handover day + adoption weeks × 7 − 1

day back at work = last day of leave + 1

• Weeks before the birth: 8 with one baby, 10 with a multiple pregnancy. Weeks after the birth: 16.
• Weeks worked: with a doctor’s approval one can work until 2 weeks before the birth.
• Unused days: after an early birth, the days of leave before the birth not used. When the birth comes before the leave starts, the whole period before the birth; for civil servants and contract staff also the days from the birth to the planned start.
• Days: calendar days. The birth day is the first day of the leave after the birth.
• Nursing leave: for employees, 1.5 hours a day until the child is 1. For civil servants and contract staff it starts at the return to work and is longer in the first 6 months.

Worked example

The example on this page is an employed mother with an expected birth date of 1 December 2026, and the baby comes that day. The leave before the birth starts on 6 October 2026 and ends on 30 November 2026: 56 days. The leave after the birth runs from 1 December 2026 to 22 March 2027, 112 days. The day back at work is 23 March 2027. The total is 168 days, 24 weeks. An employed father of the same baby is on leave from 1 to 10 December 2026.

Notes and limits

Before 1 May 2026 the leave after the birth was 8 weeks; the calculator applies the rules of the days the leave runs. It covers employees and civil servants from 2005, the self-employed from 1 October 2008 and 4/B contract staff from 14 May 2018. Every period and status is on the Turkish maternity leave periods by year page.

Half-time work is optional: for employees, unpaid leave for half the weekly hours; for a first, second and later birth, 60 / 120 / 180 days; +30 for a multiple birth; 360 for a disabled child. For civil servants, half the daily hours, given in months. Contract staff and the self-employed have none.

When the mother dies at or after the birth, the father takes the rest of her leave after the birth. For civil servants and contract staff the law says “as long as the period provided for the mother”; the employer can give the whole period.

The law sets the minimum: a collective or individual employment contract can give more. Staff with their own personnel law (armed forces, judges and prosecutors) should check that law. For the self-employed, the calculator shows the rest periods SGK pays the maternity benefit for. Unpaid leave and part-time work are not in the result; SGK pays the benefit, and the calculator does not work out the amount. The maternity leave guide explains the rules.