“…Optional in-provincial appointment, extra-provincial appointment and excuse-based relocation requests of teachers in the public sector are carried out based on the appointment calendar determined by the Ministry of National Education. Teacher mobility in Turkey takes place from the countryside to the center, from the provinces in the East to the provinces in the West in terms of the geographical structure of the country and the current socio-economic conditions (Memişoğlu, Çelik, Yılmaz, İsmetoğlu, & Erbaş, 2015;Şahin, Beycioğlu, Sincar, & Çıkrıkçı, 2016;Atmaca, Toygur & Çamurcu, 2022). However, the fact that the schools in the provincial centers are full in terms of staff causes some difficulties for the teachers working in the provinces to come to the central schools (Şahin et al, 2016).…”