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Işık Özdoğan has been recognized as one of the world’s Top 250 Women in IP by Managing Intellectual Property in its 2016 edition. Işık leads Moroğlu Arseven’s 13-person intellectual property team and she is the only Turkish practitioner noted in the […]

Online sale of over the counter (“OTC”) pharmaceutical products is banned in Turkey because the legislative framework does not specifically address this market segment. Rather, local legislation deems OTC products to be effectively the same as pharmaceuticals, which can […]

The Turkish Patent Institute (TPI) opened the Draft Industrial Property Law for public consultation and that period closed on March 4. The draft law contains provisions on trademarks, patents, industrial designs and geographical indications, all of which are currently […]

The Turkish Competition Authority has published a report on movie cinemas, outlining competition law-related conditions in different aspects of the sector, such as production, distribution and screening (“Report”). The report has been updated to include information about the recent […]

Turkey has amended and clarified the requirements for collecting public receivables. Changes particularly apply to obtaining documents to show an overdue debt, calculating the limitation period, as well as deleting records. Further explanatory information is also provided for existing […]

Turkey’s Capital Market Board (“Board”) has amended regulations for investment enterprises and intermediary institutions. Additional website information disclosures now apply for investment enterprises. Further changes apply to disclosures about customer profit/loss distribution for leveraged transactions by intermediary institutions, as […]

Turkey has introduced regulations outlining principles and procedures for financial arrangements between health care service providers (“Service Providers”) and the Social Security Institution (“Institution”), including supplementary arrangements. In particular, the new requirements for the agreements or protocols aims to […]

Turkey’s Tobacco and Alcohol Market Regulatory Board (“Board”) has introduced an associability check, comparing registered names, trademarks, emblems, or logos for tobacco companies, against companies in other sectors. The Board will gradually complete associability checks, evaluating certain criteria. The […]

The value thresholds for total assets and net annual sales which trigger an obligation to obtain an independent audit have lowered in Turkey. The primary change is that companies with total assets of more than TRY 40 million or […]

Q: As a dispute resolution expert, what trends have you noticed in terms of methods of dispute resolution over the last year? There is an increase in commercial cases before courts across Turkey. The business which could not cope […]