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The following article gives a summary of the communiqués by the Ministry of Trade regarding the prevention of unfair competition in imports, made between 1 November 2019 and 30 November 2019. Investigation Announced into Imports of Textiles Woven of […]

The Court of Justice of the European Union(“CJEU”) has rendered its long-awaited decision on the process started in 2016 with Austrian Green Party member Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek’s request from Facebook to remove the posts offending her. The CJEU’s decision adds […]

Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism (“Ministry”) has published the Regulation on Filming Permissions and Co-Productions (“Regulation”), on 15 October 2019, entering into effect on the same day. With this Regulation, the Regulation on Cinematographic Co-Productions and Local and […]

The Regulation Amending the Regulation on Commercial Advertisement and Unfair Commercial Practices (“Amendment Regulation”) was published in Official Gazette number 30916 on 12 October 2019. The Amendment Regulation revises and clarifies certain articles of the Regulation on Commercial Advertisement […]

The Turkish Constitutional Court has invalidated certain provisions of the Employment Law numbered 4857 (“Employment Law ”) for being against the principle of equality. The sixth paragraph of article 112 of the Employment Law prevented public institutions to recourse […]

Turkey’s Central Bank has updated discount interest rates for commercial papers with expiry periods of three months or more. The revised rates are 17.25% for rediscount transactions and 18.25% for advance transactions. The interest rates were announced in Communiqué […]

Considering the recent developments in information technologies, Turkey’s Revenue Administration (“Administration”) issued the General Communiqué on Tax Procedural Law numbered 509 (“General Communiqué”) aiming to establish unity with regards to electronic document practices and to ensure that the parties […]