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Turkey has introduced The Regulation on Registration, Production, and Marketing of Local Varieties (“Regulation”) aiming to protect field crops, vineyard/garden plants and other plant varieties and to prevent genetic erosion for those. The new Regulation outlines procedures and principles […]

Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) decided to conduct an investigation to Turkish Pharmacists’ Association for violation of article 4 (restrictive trade practices and concerted practices) of the Law number 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Law”). As a result of […]

Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency has amended the Regulation on Licensing of Medicinal Products for Human Use with regards to the suspension of licenses. Under the Regulation on Amendment of the Regulation on Licensing of Medicinal Products for […]

Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) has extended the deadline for registration with the Data Controller Registry System (“VERBİS”) to 31 December 2019, for certain data controllers. As stated in our previous article, data controllers which employ 50 or […]

Turkish Constitutional Court stated that the municipality’s refusal to return the ownership of the property assigned for public interest following the revision in the zoning plan violates the right to property. In the concrete case, After applying to the […]

Turkey made amendments in the Communiqué on the Financial Reporting Principles of Investment Funds and the Communiqué on Real Estate Investment Funds, regarding the share groups and the transaction price constituting the basis for the purchase and sale of […]

The General Assembly on the Unification of Judgments of the Court of Cassation (“Assembly”) decided that penal clause due to early unjust termination of a labor contract is valid only for the time period stated in the contract, if […]

Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) decided to conduct an investigation to Anka Mobil Tedarik A.Ş. and D-Market Elektronik Hizmetleri ve Ticaret A.Ş. (hepsiburada.com) for violation of article 4 (restrictive trade practices and concerted practices) and article 6 (abuse of dominance) […]

Turkey’s Ministry of Trade introduces amendments for price tags, amending the Regulation on Price Tags (“Regulation”) and the Communiqué on the Use of Domestic Manufacture Logo on Price Tags effective as of 27 July 2019. Notable amendments are as […]

Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (“RTSC”) and Information and Communication Technologies Authority (“ICTA”) have jointly published the Regulation on Submission of Radio, Television and Voluntary Broadcasts through the Internet (the “Regulation”) on 1 August 2019 entering into effect […]