Although the days of declaration of premiums are in relation to the days
spent in employment, articles 41, 46 and provisional article 4 of the Act No. 5510 present various cases which may be indebted as service periods under the long-term social security schemes. Although the periods referred to in these articles are periods spent outside employment, they can still be taken into account in calculating the days of premium declaration, provided that the individual pays the relevant premiums corresponding to those periods.
These periods are as follows:

• Periods spent in legal unpaid maternity leave and up to two years after the birth of the child during which the mother does not actively work. This possibility is limited to three births.

• Periods spent in recruitment in the army as a private or in the reserve officer schools

• Unpaid leaves of civil servants

• Periods spent in doctoral education or specialization in medicine, provided that the individual is not otherwise insured under the social security system

• Periods spent in legal internship as a precondition for becoming licensed attorneys

• Periods spent in detention or arrest, provided that the individual is acquitted from all accusations

• Periods spent in strikes and lock-outs

• Voluntary assistantship of medical doctors

• The inactive period of civil servants who resigned from their posts in order to run for
elections
• The remaining hours of part-time workers to be deemed full-time workers
• The period spent as an official student abroad over the age of 18, provided that they are sent under the 1416 numbered Act and have successfully completed their education and their compulsory service upon returning
• The successful education period in the higher education institutions of those who were later appointed to specified positions either in the Turkish Armed Forces or the Turkish National Police, provided that the education was received at their own expenses
• Periods set forth in provisional article 4 of the 5510 numbered Act