A development plan is an essential element in all construction projects which indicates how a building should be built. In a residential area, how a land should be used is determined by means of development plans made by municipalities and in some cases by public entities and ministries. Development plans can be divided into two...
Pursuant to Art. 35 of Turkish Constitution, every person is entitled to claim property and heirship rights and these rights can only be restricted for the purpose of providing public interest and with a law. Noone can use his property right to the disadvantage of the public. Either the building’s owner has the building constructed...
According to the articles 70/2 and 80/2, paragraph 9 of the Law of the Intellectual Property Rights, the owners of the intellectual or artistic work or the owners of the related rights or the assignees ( licensees) whose economic rights such as processing, copyright, distribution, representation, publication rights are violated can claim for the material...
The Law on Amendments on Land Register and Cadastral Law (Act No 6302, dated 3.5.2012) introduced significant amendments for real-estate acquisitions by foreigners. By this law, the 35th and 36th articles of the Land Register and Cadastral Law (“Law”) have been amended. Initially, some of the previous requirements had been cancelled. However, by the amendment...
The Turkish Code of Obligations Law No 6098 (Türk Borçlar Kanunu- it will be referred to as TBK) came into force on 01.07.2012 notwithstanding repealed the Law No 6570 on Property Lease. The repealed law had not recognized lessor’s right to terminate lease contracts for housing and roofed workplace except certain conditions were fulfilled. However,...
Regulation amending the Type Building Regulation for Planned Areas published and entered into force upon its publication date of 22.05.2004 in the Official Gazette numbered 29007. By the said regulation, the 6th provisional Article 6 amended as below which was regulated by the previous regulation dated 2.11.1985 in the Official Gazette numbered 18916. Provisional Article...
The regulation about occupational health and safety services support was published on the date of 24th December, 2013 in the Official Gazette numbered 28861. The regulation’s effective date was determined as the date of 1st January, 2014. The purpose of this regulation is to determine the procedures and principles regarding the support for the occupational...
The Consumer Protection Law (“Law”) numbered 6502 published on date of 28th of November, 2013 in the Official Gazette numbered 28835. The Law will entry into force six months after the date of publication. The previous Consumer Protection Law numbered 4077 dated 23/2/1995 will have been abolished along with this Law when it is entered...
Electricity Market License Regulation (“Regulation”) has been published in the Official Gazette numbered 28809 and came into force on the date of 2nd November of 2013. This Regulation has been regulated on based of the Code of Electricity Market and its purpose; to determine the procedures and principles about the pre-licensing and licensing implementations and...
By the reason of the contradiction to the 2nd and 38th Article of the Constitution, the subparagraph of (a) and (b) of article 65 of the Code of Protection of Cultural and Natural Properties (“Act”) numbered 2863 had been nullified by the Constitutional Court’s decision numbered 2011/18 that published in the Official Gazette dated 13th...
