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To prevent poverty, which is one of the main problems of disabled people, it is necessary to provide them with support in all areas they need, as well as to stand on their own feet, to ensure that they are employed or entrepreneurs to the extent their obstacles allow. According to the February data published by the Turkish Statistical Institute TÜIK; the unemployment rate in Turkey occurred at 14.7 to TÜIK, 2019. This is the highest unemployment rate in recent years. Increased unemployment will lead to a decrease in disabled rates and an increase in disabled unemployment. Another way to add disabled people to the business market is to make them employers. Therefore, as in the practice of many developed countries of disabled entrepreneurship, it is of great importance to support, encourage and facilitate it in Turkey. In recent years, different policies and programs are being developed in Turkey to support disabled entrepreneurship. In the Turkish Entrepreneurship Strategy and Action Plan, one of the actions defined among the strategic objectives of the general objective of "proliferating the entrepreneurship culture, creating a strong ecosystem and developing entrepreneurship" is also defined as "Supporting the entrepreneurship of persons with disabilities" Official Gazette, 2015: 5 . According to a 2010 survey conducted on disabled individuals registered in the national disabled database, 55.7% of registered disabled people want to work in heavy physical work and work that does not require strength. In addition, 28.7 percent of disabled people want to increase their job opportunities, 2011 . In Turkey, where at least one in every ten people are disabled, the head of the institutions that support the disabled to be entrepreneurs is the Employment. From the beginning of 2015, the "Administrative Penal Penal Fund" from the "Invalid and Former Unemployed Employed Employers" supports the projects to be prepared for professional training and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities and to ensure their adaptation to work and workplace and to establish their own business. The aim of this support provided by the workforce is to help disabled and former prisoners establish their own business, to recruit disabled persons through professional training and rehabilitation. The program is announced twice a year through the application guidelines published by the UNHCR and the disabled persons who provide sufficient conditions can benefit from the grant support of up to £50,000 if they are successful.In this study, within the framework of the UNHCR implemented Disabled Entrepreneurship Program, the aim is to study the support provided to disabled entrepreneurs, identify the problems experienced and develop the recommendations for these problems. Through the conversation method, which is the most commonly used method in quality research, the TR61 Level 2 in Antalya, Isparta, Burdur Region, has been conducted conversations with the applicants of the INF undertaking support program. As a result of the study, problems such as disabled people experience in participating in entrepreneurial training, the support of grants has not been increased for a long time, the workforce faces many problems, including issues such as tracking, payment, control, monitoring, adequate information and awareness work on the program have not been carried out by the workforce, the recommendations for the resolution of these problems have been made.

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