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Turkey’s Court of Appeal recently rendered an explanatory decision regarding the situations in which online game characters, items, and virtual money are displaced through wrongful acts or become inaccessible to the user. The Court of Appeal has been referred […]

Turkish Constitutional Court ruled that the applicant’s freedom of speech and freedom of the press are violated by the decision to completely block access to the website that the applicant is representative of. In the present case, 118 websites […]

Turkey’s Ministry of Treasury and Finance has published the Regulation Amending (“Amendment Regulation”) the Regulation on Activities to be Evaluated under Insurance Services, on Insurance Contracts Concluded in favor of the Consumer and on Distance Insurance Contracts (“Regulation”) in […]

Presidential Decree (“Decree”) numbered 2483 was published in the Official Gazette dated 30 April 2020 and numbered 31114 and entered into force on the same day. The Decree regulates the procedure and principles of services to be procured through […]

Within this scope, closely following up the potential competitive violations that such platforms may cause and the digital Turkish Competition Authority (“Authority”) underlined the followings with its announcement (“Announcement”) dated 8 May 2020: In parallel with the recent developments […]

In Presidential Government System, which was adopted on 9 July 2018 in Turkey, the President is entitled to issue Presidential Decrees on the matters related to executive power without the need for an enabling law. Presidential Decree, being a […]

Turkey’s Banking Regulatory and Supervisory Authority (“BRSA”) published the Regulation on Manipulation and Misleading Transactions in Financial Markets (“Regulation”) on 7 May 2020, entering into force on the same date. The Regulation sheds light on the recently introduced article […]

In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic and ensure the fast and uninterrupted supply of biocidal products which are in direct contact with the human body, the Turkish Medicines and Medical Device Agency (“Agency”) granted a three-month […]

Provisional article 13 regarding restriction of the distribution of profit has been added to the Turkish Commercial Code numbered 6102 (“TCC”) by the Law numbered 7244. The implementation procedures and principles of this article were published under the Communiqué […]

Turkey has extended the deadlines to file Income and Corporate Provisional Tax Return for 2020 1st Provisional Tax Period (January-February-March) and to pay the accrued taxes, from 18 May 2020 to 28 May 2020. Please see this link for […]