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After an attempted coup on 15 July 2016, Turkey’s Council of Ministers introduced a nationwide State of Emergency. The State of Emergency ran for three months, starting from 1 AM on 21 July 2016. With a recent decision, the […]

Turkey has introduced principles and procedures for management of intellectual property rights owned or shared by the Scientific and Technological Research Council (“TÜBİTAK”). The Regulation introduces provisions for protecting intellectual property developed by TÜBİTAK staff, or within related grant […]

An overview of notable decrees by the Council of Ministers and communiqués by the Ministry of Economy regarding prevention of unfair competition in imports, made during October 2016. Anti-Dumping Duty on Metallised Yarns Will Continue Without any Amendment The […]

Turkey has updated technical details of the regulatory regime for measuring instruments, including their use and market-entry. The updated rules apply to meters for electricity, gas, heat flow, water and taxis, as well as weighing instruments, among others. These […]

Turkey’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources has introduced details for operation, investments and licence procedures regarding large-scale renewable energy resource areas (“Investment Areas”). Investment Areas can be located on public or private property and are intended to promote […]

Turkey has introduced principles and procedures for investors to claim payments for capital market instruments which have been transferred to the Investor Compensation Center (“Centre”). The compensation mechanism applies to circumstances where a capital market instrument is dematerialized. In […]

Turkey has tightened the legal regime for open chequing accounts, along with criminal sanctions for issuing dud cheques. Dud cheques were regularly issued in bad faith under the prior legislative regime. However, legislative amendments go a significant way towards […]

Turkey’s Tobacco and Alcohol Market Regulatory Authority (“Authority”) has updated the items which are prohibited from being used when manufacturing tobacco products. Manufacturers which are currently using the newly prohibited items must apply to the Authority, stating that non-compliant […]

Turkey has amended expropriation requirements and procedures, tightening requirements for the contents of agreements for expropriated immovable property, while also expanding the scope of immovable property which is open to expropriation. Under the amendments, immovable property, resource rights and […]

Turkey’s Ministry of Economy has temporarily expanded government incentives to also include solar panel imports made within solar energy power investments. Incentives are temporarily available to solar panel imports supplied or loaded for shipping before 25 June 2016 in […]