If we were speaking in Japanese, we might call immigration law in Turkey a kind of ma – the structured space “in-between” home and abroad, belonging and not-yet-belonging. In Chinese, people often say a “crisis” (wēijī) is danger plus opportunity. That’s not linguistically perfect, but as a metaphor it fits immigration law very well: every […]
If you strip law down to its bones, contract formation in Turkish law is about one simple, uncomfortable question: “At what point does what you said become something you cannot walk away from?” Turkish law answers that question using a fairly classical civil-law structure: offer, acceptance, meeting of minds, capacity, form, and absence of defects […]
Mediation services under Turkish law are basically the legal system’s way of saying:“Look, going to court is slow, stressful and expensive – can we please try talking like adults first?” If you’ve ever been in a dispute in Turkey – with an employer, a tenant, a business partner, a neighbour – you’ve probably already heard […]
One may argue that Turkish Information Technology (IT) Law is not a single, tidy code, but a living ecosystem: scattered provisions, special statutes, Board decisions, court precedents and soft-law guidelines that together regulate how data, code and people interact. The core idea, however, is surprisingly simple: technology may evolve, but it does not float above […]
Work permits in Turkey are not just plastic cards or bureaucratic hurdles. They are the fragile bridge between a foreigner’s dream and the State’s demand for order. On one side, there is a person with a profession, a family, a story; on the other, a legal system that says: “You are welcome, but you must […]
Smuggling defense in Turkey is not only about articles, penalties and customs codes. It is about a human being standing alone in a courtroom, feeling the full weight of the State on the other side. Between them lies the law: sometimes cold as marble, sometimes the only warm shield a person has left. This article […]
Commercial contracts in Turkey live at the intersection of a Roman–Germanic civil law tradition and a fast-moving, trade-driven economy. On paper, everything starts with the Turkish Code of Obligations and the Turkish Commercial Code; in real life, it ends with emails, unpaid invoices, defective goods, and a dispute resolution clause that suddenly matters more than […]
Cross border data transfers from Turkiye KVKK Art 9 is no longer a niche topic for privacy lawyers only. After the recent amendments to the Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK), Article 9 has been reshaped into a more structured, but also more demanding regime. The old “just get explicit consent and send the data abroad” […]
Foreigners guide to Turkeys Consumer Arbitration Board is, in reality, a guide to something very practical: how a non-Turkish consumer can turn a bad purchase, a broken promise or an unfair contract into a binding, enforceable decision without immediately going to court. Turkey’s Consumer Arbitration Boards (Tüketici Hakem Heyetleri) are low-cost, fast and relatively user-friendly […]
Investing in Turkey’s pharmaceutical sector means stepping into a highly regulated, but strategically positioned market that serves as a bridge between Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. For foreign investors, Turkey combines a liberal foreign investment regime with a mature regulatory framework for medicines, a strong generics base and ambitions to become a regional […]