With the decision of the Constitutional Court dated 22/02/2023 and numbered 2022/155 E., 2023/38 K., the first sentence of the Article 187 related to the woman taking her husband’s surname upon marriage of Turkish Civil Code Numbered 4721 has been annulled with the majority of votes due to being found unconstitutional. The decision will enter into force 9 months following its publishing in the Official Gazette. You can access the…

With the decision of the Constitutional Court dated 22/02/2023 and numbered 2022/155 E., 2023/38 K., the first sentence of the Article 187 related to the woman taking her husband’s surname upon marriage of Turkish Civil Code Numbered 4721 has been annulled with the majority of votes due to being found unconstitutional. The decision will enter into force 9 months following its publishing in the Official Gazette. You can access the…

“Law on the Amendment of Bankruptcy and Enforcement Law and Some Other Laws which includes new regulations in judiciary, was published in the Official Gazette dated 05.04.2023 and entered into force. The Articles 31, 34, 36, 37, 38 and 41 of the Law will enter into force on 01.09.2023.”

According to the amendment made in the communique; As of 28.02.2023, the arbitral awards rendered upon disputes under 15.000,00 Turkish Liras are final. The arbitral awards rendered upon objections regarding disputes over  238.730,00 Turkish Liras made to the Insurance Arbitration Committee can be appealed. In the application of monetary limits on remedies of objection and appeal, the monetary limits in force at the time of the award will be taken…

The decision to make payments of compensation and receivables due to the termination of the employment contract such as severance, notice and annual leave payments to the employee whose employment contract is ongoing through arbitrary meditation minutes results in contradiction. The payments made this way even though there is no termination process, will carry a nature of advance payment. Therefore the decision to annull the mediation report should be made.

Subsequent to the rejection of the request by the attorney of the creditor that the debtor’s previous (pasif) immovable records to be queried and recorded in the file, attorney of the creditor filed a lawsuit for the annulment of the relevant transaction. The court of first instance decided to reject the lawsuit, since the creditor’s attorney can request the investigation-query procedures for the collection of the receivable through the enforcement…

The Law on Amending the Income Tax Law and Other Laws and Decrees has been published in the Official Gazette dated 9 November 2022 and in the Provisional Article 2; it has been regulated that in the case of receivables subject to enforcement proceedings, which the enforcement amount is 2,000 Turkish lira or less, or which the enforcement amount is less than 2,000 Turkish lira as of 15.08.2022, if the…

In the Official Gazette dated 18.01.2022, the Tax Procedure Law General Communiqué (Serial No: 546) on the determination of the procedures and principles regarding information that taxpayers are obliged to notify within the scope of the Tax Procedure Law No. 213 which has been notified to the Ministry of Treasury and Finance in electronic environment by the Ministry of Commerce, being accepted as a notification made by taxpayers has been…

The Decision of the 3rd Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation, dated 29.06.2021, numbered 2022/6731 E., 2022/8532 K. Making a decision based on the Regulation on Private Education Institutions of the Ministry of National Education instead of applying provisions of Higher Education Law on a dispute about a foundation university, which is a public legal entity subject to the Higher Education Law numbered 2547 and established in accordance with…

The Regulation on the Procedures and Principles to be Applied to the Real Estate Sales Contracts Arranged by the Notaries has entered into force by being published in the Official Gazette dated 11.01.2023 and numbered 32070. In the relevant regulation, the procedures and principles to be applied to the contracts of sale of immovable property arranged by notary publics have been enacted and in this direction, applications for the arrangement…

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