For companies entering the Turkish market, creators monetizing original content, and investors building brand-driven or technology-based businesses, understanding Turkish IP law is no longer optional. Türkiye has a mature and increasingly active intellectual property system built around specialized institutions, modern legislation, international filing routes, and practical enforcement tools. The country is also a major filing […]
Inheritance lawsuits in Turkey do not follow a single procedural path. What people casually call an “inheritance case” may actually be a non-contentious probate-type application such as obtaining a certificate of inheritance, opening a will, recording a rejection of inheritance, or requesting protective measures for the estate. It may also be a fully contentious civil […]
Digital wealth is no longer theoretical. Many people now hold part of their economic life in exchange accounts, self-custodied crypto wallets, online investment interfaces, domain names, monetized channels, cloud-based business records, and other digitally controlled assets or claims. In Turkey, however, succession law did not develop as a separate “digital estate code.” The current legal […]
The role of the executor in Turkish inheritance law is far more important than many families realize. In Turkish practice, succession does not become simple merely because a will exists. After death, the estate may need to be protected, the will may need to be formally opened by the civil peace court, heirs may disagree […]
Children born outside marriage are not excluded from inheritance under Turkish law. The modern Turkish Civil Code does not treat a child born outside marriage as a second-class heir merely because the parents were not married when the child was born. The real legal issue is not the child’s social status, but whether filiation (soybağı) […]
Unmarried partners do not have the same inheritance position as spouses under Turkish law. This is the single most important starting point for anyone asking about cohabitation, long-term relationships, fiancés, religious-only unions, or partners who shared a home and life without a valid civil marriage. The Turkish Civil Code gives inheritance rights to the surviving […]
Family businesses in Turkey are often built around more than capital. They usually combine ownership, management, family expectations, and long-term control over assets such as factories, shops, contracts, real estate, goodwill, and voting rights. When the founder or a key shareholder dies, the legal problem is therefore not limited to “who inherits.” The real question […]
Lifetime gifts and equalization in Turkish inheritance law is one of the most important and most misunderstood areas of succession practice. Families often focus on the estate as it exists on the date of death, but Turkish law does not ignore what the deceased gave away during life. In some situations, an inter vivos transfer […]
When people think about inheritance law in Turkey, they often begin with a simple question: does a husband or wife still inherit after the marriage breaks down? In practice, that question is much more complex than it first appears. Turkish law draws sharp distinctions between a final divorce, a judicial separation, a pending divorce case, […]
Turkey has a structured and statute-driven inheritance system. In many families, people assume succession will be simple if everyone already “knows” who the heirs are. In practice, Turkish inheritance law is more formal than that. The inheritance opens automatically at death, but wills may need to be delivered and opened by the civil peace court, […]