In recent years, European Union takes decisions that are devoted to define disabled individuals, to prevent discrimination towards them, to ensure equal opportunity and to increase their level of employment. These decisions guide the Member States and they make arrangements related to the referred decisions. In addition to the discussions on “ disability “ concept, many studies take place on the prevention of discrimination towards disabled individuals, ensuring of equal opportunity and the increase of employment in Turkey, However, the multiplicity and complexity of the regulations and the lack of cooperation and coordination between the related institutions cause many problems. In this article, general “disability definition “, regulation and implementations in EU Member States is dealed. It is aimed to attract attention to the problems in our country and to share knowledge to form opinion about the following adjustments.

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