The Directorate of Health, Culture, and Sports is a health institution, a service unit that meets students’ social, cultural, counseling and guidance, and sports needs, and at the same time an applied division where applications and research are carried out in the said areas to support education and teaching, whose duties and responsibilities are defined in Articles 46 and 47 of the Higher Education Law No. 2547, Article 32 of Decree Law No. 124 on the Administrative and Organizational Structure of Higher Education Institutions, and the “Implementing Regulation for the Directorates of Medico-Social Health, Culture, and Sports at Higher Education Institutions,” published in the Official Gazette No. 18301 on February 3, 1984.