After the student has fulfilled their obligations for graduation under the YÖK (Council of Higher Education) and GTU Regulations Governing Graduate Education and Training, and GTU Senate Regulations Governing Graduate Education and Training, they must complete the requirements for dissertation submission until the date specified in the respective Academic Year semester. The student completes the dissertation submission within the specified period by completing the following forms and taking note of the descriptions in them.

The student has their Advisor and Dissertation Monitoring Committee approve the DR.04-01 Dissertation Monitoring Committee Article Release Approval Form with the article attached, and then attaching it to DR.04 Article Review Committee Resolution, has it signed by the Article Review Committee, which consists of the Head of Department, Institute Director, and the Vice Rector.

2 DR.01 Dissertation Submission Forms: 1 copy must be delivered to the Office of Student Affairs after approved by the Advisor and the Student Affairs. Upon the approval of the Program Coordinator, the other copy must be delivered to the Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences Aby the Related Department via Electronic Document Management System (EBYS) with the following attachments:

> 1 YL/DR.02 Dissertation Defensibility and Originality Declaration Form: After signed by the student and the advisor, with the advisor-approved Academic Plagiarism Prevention Form (web link about Urkund),

> 1 YL/DR.03 Dissertation Jury Proposal Form: After approved by the advisor and the program coordinator,

> 1 YL/DR.03-1 Dissertation Submission Report Delivery Commitment Form: After signed by the student,

> 1 DR.04 Article Review Committee Resolution: After signed by the respective committee members,

> 1 Dissertation: As a PDF file prepared in compliance with the Thesis Writing Format,

2 YL/DR.06 Dissertation Jury Joint Evaluation Report: After signed by the jury members, 1 copy must be handed to the student, the other copy must be delivered to the Institute via Electronic Document Management System (EBYS) by the related Department within 3 days of the defense.

The student must complete the dissertation submission procedure within 1 month of the defense. The deadline to submit to the Institute may be extended for up to 1 month upon request.

The image of the defense must be submitted and the introduction of the dissertation must be made after the dissertation defense.

Other Steps to Complete: 

YL/DR.09 Dissertation Writing Compliance Report: The print-out of the dissertation prepared in compliance with the Thesis Writing Format is delivered along with this report to the Institute office staff for a final check, after it is approved by the related department's staff responsible for checking the dissertation.

> YL-DR.08 Dissertation Jury Personal Evaluation Report: (should the faculty members assigned as a defense jury member desire to fill in one),

> 1 YL-DR.09 Dissertation Writing Compliance Report,

> 1 YL-DR.10 Discharge/Exmatriculation Form: After approved by the related divisions,

> 1 Dissertation Data Entry and Publishing Permission Form: With the student's e-state password and the print-out of the YÖK Thesis Center data entry form signed by the student (the "Field of Science" part must be left blank when filling out the form),

> 3 Bound Dissertations,

> 2 CDs: The reduced image of the dissertation cover must be printed on the CDs, and the YÖK (Council of Higher Education) must be written on the CDs themselves. In the CDs: