Every month. Lawyer Monthly’s In Profile: An Interview With … feature speaks to experienced lawyers to find out about their work. any recent changes within their practice area. what motivates them and the challenges they face. This month. we speak to Mehmet Gun from Gun+ Partners in Istanbul, Turkey.
You have recently published a book on Advocacy profession In Turkey. 500 copies of the first edition have already been finished. Congratulations! Apparently It Is the first of…
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1 LITIGATION
1 Preliminaries
1.1 What type of legal system has Turkey got? Are there any rules that govern civil procedure in Turkey?
Turkey’s legal system is based on civil law. Civil procedure is governed by the Code of Civil Procedure (“the CCP”) dated 01.10.2011 and numbered 6100. There are also some specific procedural rules regulated by the Turkish Commercial Code and the Code of Labour Courts, etc.
1.2 How is the civil court system in Turkey structured? What are the…
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A draft Turkish bill, inspired by the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, contains the building blocks for a privacy regime which would introduce such concepts as prior notification of data subjects, registration with the data protection regulator and restrictions on data transfers. In this article, Begüm Yavuzdoğan Okumuş, Bentley James Yaffe and Alp Turan, Senior Associate, Associate and Trainee respectively at Gün + Partners in Istanbul, discuss the relevant…
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Beril Yayla Sapan and Neslisah Borandı of Gün + Partners examine the Turkish International Arbitration environment.
November 20, 2014 saw the long-awaited Law on the Istanbul Arbitration Centre passed in Turkey, coming into force in early 2015. The law forms part of the government’s over arching plan to support the economy through financial reforms – all with the aim of promoting Turkey as an attractive international financial centre.
The new law establishes the Istanbul…
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If a party had followed such a strategy before a recent decision issued by the Re-Examination and Evaluation Board of the TPI, the opposition against the new application would most probably have been rejected by the TPI on the ground that the application was based on a valid earlier registration and that the TPI does not have any legal obligation to wait for the finalisation of a court action. Further to such decision, the party would probably have waited for the registration…
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1 Regulatory
1.1 Which government bodies/agencies regulate insurance (and reinsurance) companies?
The insurance regulatory agency in Turkey is the Insurance Undersecretariat of the Treasury (the “Undersecretariat”). As it is positioned under the Prime Ministry, it is not an independent body.
1.2 What are the requirements/procedures for setting up a new insurance (or reinsurance) company?
An insurance company in Turkey can only operate in the form of a joint-stock company or…
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