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Turkish Constitutional Court, ruled that the dismissal decision adopted by the first degree court rendered due expiry of the time period of application commencing from tax payment date in correction requests for declaration-based taxes miscalculated due to the applicant’s […]

Turkish Constitutional Court has recently published its decision in which it evaluated the expert report’s positive proof qualification upon the finalization of the court decision. As a result, the court decided that the acceptance of the objection to the […]

Turkish Constitutional Court (“CC”) ruled that it is unconstitutional not to apply the favorable criminal provision within the scope of the law change that occurred during the judgement process. An investigation was conducted against the applicant company with the […]

Turkish Constitutional Court recently ruled that imposing a preliminary injunction on the applicant’s immovable property for 19 years violates the right to property. The decision relates to an application in which the applicant alleged a violation of the property […]

Turkish Constitutional Court ruled that the applicant’s right to fair trial is violated due to Turkish Counsel of State’s failure to unify discrepancies between precedents in tax litigation in a reasonable time. In the present case, Tax administration requested […]

Turkish Medicine and Medical Devices Office (“TITCK”) has updated Guideline (“Guideline”) regarding the Regulation on the Sale, Advertising and Promotion of Medical Devices  (“Regulation”) on 20 October 2020 and introduced new provisions regarding the process of examination of the […]

Capital Markets Board of Turkey has made amendments on several issues regarding venture capital funds, including new rules on activities of fund, representation of the fund, principles on investment companies and venture capital investments and new requirements for public […]

On 6 November 2020, Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority published a summary of a decision dated 10 September 2020 and numbered 2020/791 on its website regarding the processing of the mobile phone number of a data subject by an […]

The Law on Restructuring of Certain Receivables and Amendment of Certain Laws (“Law”) was published in the Official Gazette dated 17 November 2020 and numbered 31307. Various receivables, administrative fines, and tax penalties which are subject to the provision […]

We provide a guide to copyright protection in Turkey, answering some commonly asked questions about protection, creation, duration and enforcement. How is copyright protected in Turkey? Copyright protection in Turkey is provided through the Law on Intellectual and Artistic […]