Turkey’s efforts to bring nuclear energy into its energy mix dates back to the 1950’s. However, it was not until May 2010 that Turkey took its most concrete step towards nuclear power, signing an agreement with Russia for the construction of its first plant.
This has been followed by an agreement signed with Japan in May 2013 for the construction of a second nuclear power plant. The Turkish government is also working on different scenarios for the construction of a third…
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Introduction
In Communiqué 2015/5, the Ministry of Health recently announced the start of an e-pulse project which aims to provide:
improved health services (by reducing the length of diagnosis and treatment);
prevent the repetition of unnecessary examinations; and
reduce government expenditure.
The e-pulse project will in principle allow people to place their digital health data online.
When establishing the system, the Ministry of Health, among other things, referred to…
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In a decision rendered in January 2015, the Turkish Patent Institute (TPI) has recognised that the JAVA marks are well known in the software sector, and concluded that there was a risk that the application for JAXA (No 2013/97550) could take unfair advantage of, or be detrimental to, the reputation or distinctive character of the JAVA marks.
The application for JAXA, which covered all the services in Class 42 of the Nice Classification, was published in the Official Trademark…
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Every month. Lawyer Monthly’s In Profile: An Interview With … feature speaks to experienced lawyers to find out about their work. any recent changes within their practice area. what motivates them and the challenges they face. This month. we speak to Mehmet Gun from Gun+ Partners in Istanbul, Turkey.
You have recently published a book on Advocacy profession In Turkey. 500 copies of the first edition have already been finished. Congratulations! Apparently It Is the first of…
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1 LITIGATION
1 Preliminaries
1.1 What type of legal system has Turkey got? Are there any rules that govern civil procedure in Turkey?
Turkey’s legal system is based on civil law. Civil procedure is governed by the Code of Civil Procedure (“the CCP”) dated 01.10.2011 and numbered 6100. There are also some specific procedural rules regulated by the Turkish Commercial Code and the Code of Labour Courts, etc.
1.2 How is the civil court system in Turkey structured? What are the…
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A draft Turkish bill, inspired by the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, contains the building blocks for a privacy regime which would introduce such concepts as prior notification of data subjects, registration with the data protection regulator and restrictions on data transfers. In this article, Begüm Yavuzdoğan Okumuş, Bentley James Yaffe and Alp Turan, Senior Associate, Associate and Trainee respectively at Gün + Partners in Istanbul, discuss the relevant…
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