The severe injury of 4-year-old Asiye Ateş as a result of an attack by 2 pit bulls has reignited long-standing concerns about street animals. […]

The Competition Authority, one of the independent administrative authorities that can be considered semi-public and semi-autonomous, opened an investigation against WhatsApp and Facebook. This investigation has been a hot topic in the public agenda for the past months due to the new privacy and data usage agreement imposed by the company on users. […]

Last week, the Ministry of Commerce of the Republic of Turkey published a guide aiming to align influencer marketing, one of the most current and popular marketing methods, with consumer law and advertising law principles adopted in the domestic legislation. […]

The Grand General Assembly of the Court of Cassation, with its united jurisprudence decision numbered 2019/2 Main 2020/3 Decision, published in the Official Gazette on 20.04.2021, resolved an issue that colleagues who have been practicing for years have been debating. In summary, the assembly decided by majority vote that when the notification to the known address is returned, it is sufficient to make the notification to the address in the address registration system in accordance with Article 21/2 of the Notification Law, and it is not necessary to make the normal notification to the registered address before. […]

The global COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected the whole world, has been ongoing in our country since March 2020, when the first case was detected. Like many countries in the world, the first method applied by the public authority in Turkey to prevent the spread was curfews. However, perhaps due to the urgency of the process, or perhaps due to political and economic reasons, curfew decisions were made contrary to positive law (i.e., existing legal norms). […]

The Republic of Turkey, on the night of March 19, 2021, separated from the "Istanbul Convention," officially known as the "Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence," with a presidential decree. […]