Funda

Assist. Prof.

With the Digitalisation Directive (EU) 2019/1151, many regulations have been made regarding company law to increase digital applications. The main purpose of the directive is to facilitate the formation and registration of companies within the borders of the EU by enabling the use of digital tools and methods in the field of company law. In particular, the aim is to reduce the cost of incorporating start-ups and small- and medium-sized businesses as well as their time and administrative burdens. The EU member state of Germany recently passed Gesetz zur Umsetzung der Digitalisierungsrichtlinie [Law Implementing the Digitalization Directive, or DiRUG] in order to transpose the directive’s provisions into national law and entered into force on August 1, 2022.The directive requires member states to ensure that the online formation of limited liability companies with cash capital may be carried out completely online without the need for applicants to appear in person before any authority. The decisions regarding whether online formation is possible for other kinds of companies and whether online formation can occur for limited liability companies with capital-in-kind are left to the member states. Meanwhile, member states are required to provide templates for the online formation of limited liability companies and make them available to citizens (or legal persons) of EU member states in order to facilitate the cross-border formation of corporations within the EU. The Directive has specifically pointed out certain issues that need to be regulated by member states in order to avoid some possible abuses and security breaches. However, the power to lay down detailed rules for the online formation of corporations has been absolutely left to the member states. German law provides the online formation only for limited liability companies with cash capital, while other types of companies and limited liability companies to be formed with non-cash capital are excluded from the scope of online formation. However, from August 1st, 2023, GmbHs that are to be founded with in-kind capital can also be founded online. New regulations in German law as created by DiRUG make it possible to handle the formation procedures completely online via video communication systems without applicants having to appear in person at a notary public. However, in cases where the notar [notary] is unable to perform their duties via the video communication system (e.g., if one of the parties cannot be identified or doubts exist about their legal capacity), the notary may refuse to carry out the transactions via the video communication system and require the physical participation of the person or persons concerned.In addition to the possibility of online formation, the directive also contains regulations regarding the online filing of documents and information to the commercial register. In this context, member states are obliged to ensure that the relevant documents are able to be submitted completely online, thus enabling the registration process to be carried out online without the applicant having to appear in person before the person or institution responsible for carrying out the online submission procedure. In order to comply with this directive, DiRUG regulates German law to require notary to also be able to electronically certify the qualified electronic signatures to be executed via the video communication system. This means the law recognizes the possibility to electronically transmit documents created via the video communication system directly to the register. However, German legislation has made an exception to this, regulating that the notary may refuse online certification and require the physical participation of the person or persons concerned so that the notary can properly conduct the business, such as may occur in the case of online company formation.Another innovation of the directive is the removal of the obligation to publish company documents and information with regard to disclosure. Instead, the register entries regarding the documents and information concerned are envisaged as being made directly accessible electronically/online. This regulation of the directive abolishes the dual disclosure system in German law, which had taken place via two separate internet portals in the form of online access to registration documents and separate disclosure of documents and information. Under the new system, only the entries in the register will be made accessible online, with the first retrieval of the entry in the commercial register via the electronic information and communication system being deemed a disclosure. The new system provides accessibility to the information entered onto the companies registers of member states, so that no difference will occur between the announced status and the recorded information. For this reason, the rule about the protection of confidence has been adapted to the new system, with the expression “confidence in the announced situation is preserved” being changed to “confidence in the registered situation is preserved.”

Online Formation, Online Filing of Company Documents and Online Disclosure in the Register according to the Digitalisation Directive (EU) 2019/1151 and the German Law (DiRUG)

Doruk

Assoc. Prof.

The voluntary refusal of inheritance is a legal process enabling one to remove the title of heir by not accepting the inheritance. However, sometimes in practice the heir is encountered to refuse the inheritance maliciously in order to deny goods to creditors. In such a case, the law has given creditors of the heir the right to file a lawsuit to nullify the refusal of inheritance.In order to file an action for annulment of denial of inheritance as regulated in Article 617 of the Turkish Civil Code, the following three conditions must be met:●	The assets of the heir refusing the inheritance should not be enough to meet the debt. The heir needs to have not had a certificate of insolvency for not paying the debt nor a bankruptcy decision in the heir’s name. The plaintiff creditor must be able to provide sufficient evidence to the judge by revealing that the heir who has refused inheritance has done this in order not to pay the heir’s debt, that the heir has unjustly rejected payment requests from the creditor prior to refusal, and that the heir has undergone enforcement proceedings.&nbsp;●	The heir must refuse the inheritance in order to harm the creditors. The presence of the intention of harm must be determined objectively in a concrete case.●	The creditors who have filed the action for nullity must not have had sufficient security for covering their receivables. The assurance can be given by the defendant or a third party before or after the nullity action filing has been introduced.&nbsp;The nullity action must be introduced to the Civil Court of First Instance located in the settlement of the legator within the peremptory time limit of six months from the refusal of inheritance. The case is opened by the bankruptcy administration in cases of heir bankruptcy, and by the willing creditors otherwise.Whom the action for nullity of refusal should be introduced against is disputable. One opinion says the case for the nullity of refusal should be introduced against the heir who has refused inheritance. Another opinion states the action should be brought against those benefiting from the refusal being requested for cancellation. According to the view adopted by the Court of Cassation, the refusal case should be introduced against the heir who has refused the inheritance and against all the people benefiting from the refusal of inheritance.At the end of the case, the first result of the court’s decision of annulment is the official liquidation. In case the testator has more than one heir and only the refusal of one of these heirs has been cancelled, whether the entire estate or only the inheritance share of the heir whose rejection has been canceled will be subject to official liquidation becomes open to dispute. In one opinion, the official liquidation can be realized in terms of the whole estate. According to another opinion with which the Court of Cassation has also agreed, only the inheritance share of the heir whose rejection has been canceled should be subject to official liquidation; otherwise, the heirs having accepted the inheritance would be damaged due to the official liquidation.&nbsp;Any money still remaining after the payment of the receivables related to these creditors has been paid gets distributed among the inheritors who would have received it had the refusal of inheritance remained valid. After completion of the official liquidation, the phase begins in which the heir whose rejection has been cancelled makes the payment toward the receivables due to the heir creditors. According to the order specified in the law, the receivables of the creditors who have filed an action for the annulment of the refusal should be paid first and foremost. In case the money at hand is insufficient for covering the entire receivables of these creditors, the creditors are to rest satisfied in the proportion of their receivables. If any money is still left after the payment of the receivables related with these creditors, the receivables of the other creditors of the heir whose refusal has been revoked who have not filed a nullity action are then paid. Thus, priority has been provided to the creditors who filed for the nullity of refusal over the heir’s other creditors. If the refusal is nullified as a result of a lawsuit filed by the bankruptcy administration and an amount falls to the share of the heir whose refusal has been nullified as a result of the official liquidation, this value is added to the bankruptcy table and becomes divided among the creditors registered to the bankruptcy office in proportion to their receivables due.If any value still remains after the payment of the heir’s debts to the creditors, this amount is distributed to the heirs who would have benefitted from it had the refusal of inheritance remained valid. The heir whose refusal of inheritance has been determined by the court to have been malicious is thus nullified and punished.

The Protection of Inheritor Creditors by Refusal of Inheritance Within the Context of Article 617 of the Turkish Civil Code

Musa

Res. Assist.

Early performance describes the performance before due date that has been agreed upon by the parties in a contract. According to Article 96 in the Turkish Code of Obligations, a debtor can, as a rule, submit early performance on the debt before the due date. The debtor may render early performance by renouncing the beneficial aspects of the situation.The following exceptions to the possibility of early performance are stated in Article 96 of the Turkish Code of Obligations: (1) If the parties agree to terms prohibiting early performance in the contract, the debtor cannot render early performance. (2) Based on the nature of the contract, one may infer that early performance cannot be rendered. (3) In accordance with Article 96 of the Turkish Code of Obligations, circumstances may also prevent early performance.In accordance with Article 96 of the Turkish Code of Obligations, no discount is applied as a rule in case of early performance. Although the debtor renounces the benefits of the maturity, the debtor cannot force the creditor to renounce any part of the claim. This rule should also apply to debts accruing interest because the creditor in this case expects to benefit from interest income and the time of performance. However, Article 96 of the Turkish Code of Obligations regulates that discounts can be made in accordance with law, contract, or custom.In case of early performance, the parties may agree to pay early repayment compensation in order to compensate for the creditor’s loss of income due to the early repayment. The amount of early repayment compensation can be agreed upon in the contract. Meanwhile, the creditor may have the authority based on the contract to determine the amount of early repayment compensation. In this case, the creditor must act in good faith and adhere to the prohibition of rights abuse when determining the amount of early repayment compensation.Provisions are found regarding early performance in installment sales (Article 20), consumer credit (Article 27), and housing finance (Article 37) from Law No. 6502 on Consumer Protection. According to these articles, a consumer can give early performance for a debt. Provisions about early performance are also present in the regulations of a contract (e.g., Regulation on Installment Sales Contracts, Consumer Credit Contracts Regulation, and Housing Finance Contracts Regulation).Law No. 6502 on Consumer Protection states regarding early repayment provisions that, if the debtor pays his debt early, the debtor will be entitled to request an early repayment reduction. These provisions concerning early repayment reduction are intended to protect the consumer and are mandatory. How to calculate the reduction is explained in each contract’s regulations. If no provision is present in other regulations regarding this calculation, the relevant provisions in the Consumer Credit Contracts Regulation will be applied. If an early repayment is made on the installment date, the amount due for the installment is first subtracted from the total amount of the early repayment. If the repayment is made during the interim period, the amount of interest and additional expenses accrued since the due date of the previous installment is subtracted from the total amount of the early repayment. After subtracting these, the remaining amount is the early repayment of the capital. If the total amount of the capital is paid early, the early repayment reduction is the sum of the interest and additional costs that have not yet accrued. In case of partial early repayment, the interest and additional costs that will accrue for the part that have been paid early fall within the scope of the early repayment reduction.Article 37 of the Law on Consumer Protection concerning regulations on the early repayment provisions for housing finance states that the parties are given the opportunity to agree for the debtor to pay early repayment compensation in case of early repayment. In order to claim the early repayment compensation, the housing finance contract must be valid, and a fixed interest rate must have been determined in the contract. In addition, in this contract, the ability to demand early repayment compensation in case the debtor submits early performance should be clearly stated and agreed upon in this contract. The calculation of the early repayment compensation is regulated in Article 11 of the Housing Finance Contracts Regulation. When calculating the early repayment compensation, the early repayment amount corresponding to the capital is found first, then the early repayment compensation is calculated at no more than 1% of the early paid amount of the capital for cases where the remaining maturity does not exceed 36 months. Apart from this case, compensation is calculated at no more than 2% of the early paid amount of the capital for cases where the remaining maturity exceeds 36 months.

Early Performance in Consumer Contracts

Cüneyt

Hamza

The long-standing tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the South Caucasus have been a frozen conflict for many years due to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute and evolved into an armed conflict in the last months of 2020. This conflict is known as the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and lasted for 44 days. The war erupted after Armenia launched heavy artillery attacks on Azerbaijan, with Azerbaijan immediately responding to these unlawful acts on the grounds of its right to self-defense. This conflict resulted in heavy casualties for both sides and ended with the Armistice Agreement signed on November 9, 2020.The purpose of this article is to thoroughly address the historical development of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and to examine the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War as well as the Armistice Agreement of November 9, 2020 from the perspective of international law. Thus, the first section discusses the conflict with an emphasis on the significant events throughout its history, examining the previous ceasefire processes in this context. In the early stages of the conflict after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, certain states in the region made various attempts to resolve the problem. However, these diplomatic initiatives were unsuccessful for certain reasons. Therefore, the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) began showing interest in the conflict. The OSCE Minsk Group was established in order to resolve the conflict and offered three proposals to the parties at the end of the 1990s. However, the parties were unable to reach an agreement regarding any of the proposals. As a result of this failure, the OSCE Minsk Group proposed the Madrid Principles in 2007, which involved returning the occupied territories to Azerbaijan and providing an interim status for the Nagorno-Karabakh region. However, neither of the parties were able to endorse the Madrid Principles.The second section of the article discusses Armenia’s violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. During the war, Armenia deliberately fired heavy artillery and rockets at many densely populated Azerbaijani cities. While these attacks resulted in the death and injury of many civilians who were supposed to be protected under international humanitarian law, they also severely damaged hundreds of homes, historical buildings, and other civilian centers. As is known, all States shall abide fully to their obligations under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, additional protocols, and other instruments of international humanitarian law related to respect for human rights in armed conflicts. However, from the very beginning of the war, Armenia intentionally violated these rules. Therefore, Armenia’s international responsibilities and the relevant Armenian decision-makers’ criminal responsibilities due to these violations must be held to account.The third chapter examines the provisions of the Armistice Agreement of November 9, 2020, which ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. It first analyzes in detail the legal aspects of this agreement, concluding it to be an international agreement as per the criteria stipulated in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) and binding to both its parties. This situation is important for the future of the Agreement. Moreover, this article examines the rights and obligations that the Agreement brings to all involved parties. This section also considers the start time and area to which the ceasefire regime is applied in accordance with the Agreement and additionally discusses the most recent status of the Lachin Corridor and the Zangezur Corridor. The article debates other provisions in the agreement such as prisoners of war exchange and return of refugees to the Nagorno-Karabakh region from the perspective of international law and evaluates the status of Agdam, Kelbacer, and Lachin.The scope, duration, and other elements of the Russian peacekeeping mission in particular have been elucidated with certain references to the general concept of a peacekeeping force in international law. Last but not least, Turkey’s position in the conflict is also analyzed in accordance with the terms of the agreement. In fact, no provisions are present in the Agreement that directly concern Turkey. Upon examining the preparatory works (travaux preparations) of the Agreement, however, the parties are seen to want Turkey to be a part of the Joint Observation Center established in Article 5 of the Agreement.The article’s conclusion underlines the lack of any provision in the Agreement determining the final status of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Hence, the dispute is still an actual conflict that must be subjected to a resolution. Therefore, it is important to have the relevant actors, including Turkey, put effort into facilitating a final peace agreement regarding the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh region in order to prevent the reoccurrence of any other military conflict and establish a long-term peaceful settlement.

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict from the Perspective of International Law and the Armistice Agreement Ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

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Melis

The US company and the German company, both operating in the field of telecommunications, decided in their contract that any disputes arising from the contract would be heard exclusively in the Bonn courts. However, as a result of a contractual dispute, the US company filed a lawsuit against the German company in the District Court of Washington. In this case, the US court gave a decision of lack of jurisdiction and dismissed the case for this reason. Thereupon, in the lawsuit filed in the Bonn court, a compensation for the damages arising from the litigation costs (the American rule of cost) and attorney fees due to the lawsuit filed in the US was requested. In the 2019 German Federal Court (BGH) decision, the claim for compensation for the damages arising from the breach of the choice of the court agreement was accepted within the framework of the German Civil Code (BGB) § 280.&nbsp;The 2019 BGH decision is quite innovative in terms of accepting the breach of the choice of court agreement, and leads to compensation liability in the field of substantive law (obligations law). The decision has the impact of setting a precedent both in terms of the legal systems in Continental Europe and Turkey. In addition, a clear jurisprudence was presented in the decision in terms of the legal nature of the choice of court agreement, the law applicable to the choice of court agreement and the interpretation of the choice of court agreement. The legal nature of the choice of court agreement was accepted as a substantive law contract in terms of the obligation not to file a lawsuit in the non-chosen court. Furthermore, regardless of the legal nature of the choice of court agreement, if the interpretation of the party wills indicates that the parties enter into an obligation of not to file a lawsuit against each other in a nonchosen court, the liability must arise.The court accepted that the liability for compensation would be subject to the BGB § 280, that regulates liability for compensation in the case of the breach of contract. In Turkish law, this issue is regulated in article 112 of the Turkish Code of Obligation (TCO). Therefore, the examination of the applicability of the legal grounds in the 2019 BGH decision in terms of Turkish law should be examined within the framework of this article. According to the conditions provided in article 112 of the TCO, the act of filing a lawsuit in the non-chosen court will constitute a breach of contract.&nbsp;The second condition provided by this article is the occurrence of damage. If the non-chosen court where the lawsuit was filed gives a decision of lack of jurisdiction, the litigation costs and attorney fees incurred must be calculated. However, if the non-chosen court, where the lawsuit was filed, found itself having jurisdiction and making decisions on the merits, revealing the occurrence of damage would be quite difficult. In accordance with the international comity, in this case, finding that damage has occurred and may constitute an interference with the sovereignty of the states. The third condition sought in article 112 of the TCO is the existence of a fault. The plaintiff will be liable for the damage incurred unless he can prove that he was not at fault in filing a lawsuit in the non-chosen court. The plaintiff cannot prove that he is not at fault by claiming that his lawyer recommended filing a lawsuit in the nonchosen court. The last condition sought in TCO article 112 is that there should be a causal link between the damage and the act of the breach of the contract.The compensation claim arising from the breach of the choice of court agreement is subject to a ten-year limitation period stipulated in article 146 of the TCO. This period will begin to run from the date of filing a lawsuit in the non-chosen court.&nbsp;&nbsp;

An Examination of the Liability for Compensation for the Breach  of Choice of Court Agreements: In the Light of the German Federal  Court Decision of 17.10.2019

Gaye

Erdem

In 2017, the Turkish Constitutional Court settled a decision involving collective labor agreement autonomy. Due to the splintered nature of the state personnel regime, many different rules apply to some that do not apply to others. According to the law ruling on the rights of the personnel of the Mesleki Yeterlilik Kurumu [Professional Competency Board], increasing these personnel’s wages beyond that of personnel in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security is forbidden. However, due to autonomy of collective labor agreement being prescribed in Article 53 of the Turkish Constitution, social parties are entitled to conclude the improvement of wages on their own. The problem of nuisance value was brought to Court of Accounts due to the wages being paid as concluded in the Collective Labor Agreement,. The authorities from the Professional Competency Board upheld the principle and constitutional right of autonomy of collective labor agreement and brought the problem before the Constitutional Court to determine if social parties have the right to breach a provision in a code under the pretext of the autonomy of collective labor agreement. The Supreme Court decided with a majority vote to limit this autonomy! The Court implemented the same principles, but concluded with a distractive solution in which social parties may not increase wages that are limited by a code and found this not to go against either Article 53 or 51 in the Constitution.The current article examines and critiques each principle of constitutionality, because limiting the autonomy of collective labor agreement is not permitted, even by codes. The Supreme Court appears to be trying to preserve public income, while stretching its own audit principles. This article first explains the right to collective labor agreement and autonomy of collective labor bargaining, because while the Constitution does not prescribe autonomy of collective labor agreement, Article 53 accepted its doctrine by giving social parties the right to conclude collective labor agreement and according them the right to autonomy of collective labor agreement. The decision this article has made its subject concerns when the Supreme Court first broadened the limitations on the right to collective labor agreement as prescribed in Article 53. Article 51 entitles citizens to establish and join a union, albeit with some limitations such as maintaining public order. Article 53, however, has no limitations.The Court stated in its decision that the limitations prescribed in Article 51 may be accepted as limitations on the right to conclude collective labor agreement and therefore on the right to autonomy itself. The current article must first criticize this broadened commentary due to the comment regarding the ruling on limiting fundamental rights. In addition, the Court also lowered the requirements for limiting fundamental rights in a democratic society. The Court stated that protecting public income and sources is important, that lawmakers as a result have the right to limit the autonomy of collective labor agreement in order to protect public resources, and that this is an acceptable requirement in a democratic society. Protecting public resources by only limiting the wages of one group of state personnel must be stated as being unnecessary in a democratic society while so many other more effective ways exist to protect it. Therefore, this limitation in code is not proportional to the aim because lawmakers have no right to limit the autonomy of collective labor agreement as prescribed in the Constitution in order to preserve public resources while so many more effective and legal ways can be found to do this than limiting the wages of a single group. This is why this article decided to examine this issue in order to criticize and analyze the Constitutional Court’s audit principles as well as the constitutionality of the right of voluntary collective bargaining and, as a result. autonomy. However, the problem is not caused by the Constitutional Court but the state personnel regime that rules over personnel in various groups. Therefore, changing the entire state personnel regime would be really extreme in order to prevent unconstitutionality and inequality and to provide labor, peace and public order.&nbsp;

May The Constitutional Court Limit Collective Labor Agreement Autonomy

Abdurrahman

Protection of minority shareholders is one of the fundamental issues in corporate law. In this regard, three questions are of critical significance. First, whom exactly does corporate law protect as “minority shareholders?” Second, why does corporate law protect minority shareholders? Third, how does corporate law protect minority shareholders? This paper seeks to answer these questions by analyzing the protection afforded to minority shareholders under the Turkish Commercial Code (TCC).Part I of the paper explains the scope of this analysis and lays out the assumptions that the analysis will be based on. Corporate law protects minority shareholders vis-àvis two agency problems. The first agency problem is the managerial agency problem and the second one is the controlling shareholder agency problem, which arises in corporations with a controlling shareholder (CSH). Since most Turkish corporations are private corporations shares of which are not listed on a stock exchange, the latter of the two is the more important one when it comes to minority protection in Turkish corporate law. Therefore, this paper analyzes minority protection in corporations: (i) which are close and non-listed; (ii) which have a CSH; (iii) in which there is a personal relationship between the CSH and minority shareholders; (iv) in which minority shareholders are not protected by non-TCC means (i.e., the charter or a shareholders’ agreement); and (v) in which it is difficult for the minority shareholder to sell their shares for fair value.&nbsp;Part II focuses on the concept of “minority.” The TCC refers to shareholders representing 10% (5% for public corporations) of the share capital as minority shareholders in several provisions. These shareholders are considered as minority shareholders in provisions where a right is bestowed upon the shareholders meeting that threshold. However, a thorough analysis shows that this use of the word minority is not consistent within the TCC, as there are instances where the term is used without there being a threshold or where the term is not mentioned despite there being a threshold of 10% of the share capital. Nevertheless, most scholars define minority shareholders as shareholders who satisfy the aforementioned threshold(s). Notably, defining minority shareholders as such excludes shareholders with a stake less than 10%. Therefore, this definition fails to accurately reflect the type of shareholders protected by the TCC protects as the minority. This paper argues for a more functional definition and offers a definition based on the minority’s positions vis-à-vis the CSH.&nbsp;Part III seeks to answer these two questions: Why do minority shareholders need protection and why does this protection need to be in the form of mandatory norms? The first question is answered through examples that demonstrate how minority shareholders are vulnerable to several legal and financial risks. The paper then explains why minority protection should mostly be afforded through mandatory norms instead of default ones. It answers the second question in two parts. First, during the stage of investment in a minority stake, informational deficiencies as well as the fact that there is, as assumed by this paper, a personal relationship between the CSH and minority shareholders can result in investors waiving their statutory rights. Second, the majority principle, which allows the CSH to amend the charter in the general assembly, implies that any protective mechanism that is not mandatory can be wiped out by the CSH at the post-investment stage. This explains why norms that aim at protecting investors should, in principle, be mandatory.In the final part, this paper offers a new taxonomy of the TCC’s minority protection mechanisms. It classifies the mechanisms into five categories, building upon the voice and exit taxonomies already prevailing in the US literature. The first category is voice, which refers to mechanisms that allow minority shareholders to influence corporate decisions and transactions. The second category, exit rights, enables minority shareholders to exit the corporation through a free or safe exit. The right to a free exit means that shares are freely transferable without any restrictions. Since a free exit is unlikely due to legal and financial restrictions, a safe exit allows minority shareholders to sell their shares to the corporation or CSH at fair value. The other three categories, which are concepts first developed in this paper, supplement the first two. Foundational rights are mechanisms such as informational rights and antidilution norms that ensure proper exercise of voice and exit rights, while gap-filling principles are abstract norms that supplement the more concrete rules in previous categories. Finally, protective walls are legal mechanisms that aim at protecting the very system that protects minority shareholders, such as the doctrines of nonwaivable and acquired rights as well as the principle of mandatory norms regarding charter provisions.&nbsp;

Minority Shareholder Protection in Corporations: Protection for Whom, Why, and How?

Şirin

The relationship between genetic, social and legal paternity in family law is worth examining. As surrogacy and egg donation are not accepted in our law the distinction between genetic and legal maternity is not a feature in the establishment of parentage between mother and child. However, for historical reasons, the relationship between father and child, has always been controversial. As in many jurisdictions, the establishment of legal paternity between father and child under Turkish-Swiss law is not directly based on genetic ancestry.&nbsp;As the determination of genetic paternity was not possible when the Civil Code was initially adopted in Turkey, it was necessary to distinguish between genetic ancestry and legal paternity based on external factors. Although with today’s scientific advances, especially developments in DNA analysis techniques, the determination of genetic paternity has become very easy. Nevertheless, under Turkish law, as in many countries, genetic paternity alone is not enough to establish legal parentage, since presumptions accepted in law, for a number of reasons, are preserved. In particular the presumption of a husband’s paternity.As a result, within the framework of legal regulations, there are many situations where legal paternity is separated from genetic ancestry in the establishment of the paternal relationship between father and child. This separation is primarily due to the presumption that the husband to whom the mother was married at the time of birth is legally regarded as the father of a child, even if there is no genetic ancestry (TCC art. 285). As long as paternity, based on this legal presumption is not annulled the husband in the marriage remains the legal father, although he may not be the genetic father. It is accepted that in order to protect family unity the legislator has given priority to the moral/social paternal relationship over genetic ancestry.Legal paternity and genetic ancestry are also separated when establishing legal paternity through recognition. Therefore, it is possible to establish legal paternity between a child and a father through recognition without a genetic relationship to the child. However, if the recognition is challenged before the courts and it is proven&nbsp;that the recognizing person is not the genetic father, the legally established paternity can be annulled. Unless such recognition is annulled, the recognizing person is legally registered as the father even if he may not be the genetic father. In addition, in establishing a legal paternal relationship through court decision, the lawmaker has deemed it sufficient that the probability of the defendant being a genetic father is equal to another man (TCC art. 302/III)1 . In all these cases, there may be differences between genetic ancestry and legal paternity.Generally Turkish law allows a legal paternal relationship between the child and the genetic father to be established by marrying the mother, recognizing the child and/or by a court declaration. However, in cases where the establishment of such a legal paternal relationship is prevented despite the request of the genetic father, for example due to the fact that the child has a legal paternity with another male, the issue of establishing the legal paternity of the genetic father with the child is problematic under our law, as it is in many legal systems. In such cases, since the child can only establish a legal paternity with one single male, the existing legal paternal relationship must be annulled first in order to establish a legal paternity between the child and his genetic father.In this respect, the role of the genetic father should also be examined. Under Turkish law, it is generally accepted that the genetic father has the right to file a challenge of recognition (TCC art. 298). In addition to this, the genetic father is also granted the right to challenge the presumption of husband’s paternity. The Turkish legislator, following the modern trend, has given the genetic father the right to file a lawsuit for annulment of the paternity of the husband under certain conditions (TCC art. 291/I). There is no such regulation in Switzerland and thus, the Turkish legislator’s granting of such a right has been extremely innovative in terms of Turkish-Swiss law. Innovative because under Turkish-Swiss law, a third party’s claim that he is the father of a child born in wedlock was considered a violation of the personal rights of the mother and husband. However, it has been concluded that this newly introduced provision does not adequately protect the genetic father’s right to challenge legal paternity and also does not take into account the interests of the child and the family. For this reason, it needs to be revised.

The Position of Genetic Father under Turkish Paternity Law

Zeynep

Article 305/A of the Code of Civil Procedure (Law No. 6100) was enacted pursuant to the Law on Amending the Code of Civil Procedure and Other Laws (Law No. 7251). According to the article, “within one month from the notification of the judgment, each party may request a supplementary ruling from the court for matters left undecided partly or as a whole, even though they were asserted or ought to be resolved ex officio. Appellate remedies are available against these rulings.” This is, in fact, an adaptation of article 437/4 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which allows this procedure in arbitration.If a deficiency is found in the judgment, it can be eliminated through the completion of judgment. In other words, a supplementary ruling may be requested from the court to avert any omission in the judgment if a claim in accumulation was left unresolved or if such judicial costs as the attorney’s fee were not decided upon.This legislation serves the principle of procedural economy and the realization of more effective legal protection. However, because completion of judgments is a new institution in the civil judiciary with an ambiguous nature, several problems that arise in the finalization and enforcement of judgments must be addressed. They can be classified into two categories: the possibility of contradictory judgments due to separate appellate remedies for both rulings, and the question of whether these judgments may be executed separately and, if so, whether they may be joined in the enforcement procedure.Considering the identified problems, this study reaches the following conclusions:Because of the separate appellate remedies for both rulings, the first and the supplementary rulings are also finalized independent of each other. In this context, if separate appellate remedies are applied against both rulings, it would be appropriate to join them in the remedies procedure. If appellate remedies are not applied against the first ruling but they are applied against the supplementary ruling, the first ruling constitutes the final judgment for the supplementary ruling. In the opposite case, if appellate remedies are not applied against the supplementary ruling but the first ruling is reversed as a result of the appellate remedy review, the conclusion must be reached by making a binary distinction:On the one hand, if the supplementary ruling is independent of the first ruling, it is not possible for the judgments to affect each other, and there is no problem with the finalization of the judgment.On the other hand, if the first and the supplementary rulings affect each other, with the finalization of the supplementary ruling, a final judgment occurs in terms of the merits of the legal relationship. Therefore, in the appellate remedies against the first ruling, the first ruling cannot be reversed. However, if the first ruling is reversed by disregarding the final decision, and this ruling becomes final, there are two final judgments that contradict each other in terms of the merits of the legal relationship, and a retrial of the second final judgment should be resorted to. However, if the supplementary ruling is only about judicial costs or attorney’s fees, the appellate remedies against the first ruling also affect the supplementary ruling.In our opinion, it is possible for the first and the supplementary rulings to be executed separately. These judgments are separate final decisions, which are finalized separately and have separate appellate remedies. However, if the supplementary ruling is related to judicial costs or an accessory of the subject of the case that cannot be executed before it becomes final, enforcement is not possible before the first ruling is finalized.If both rulings are executed separately, the joinder of enforcement procedures might be requested. However, even if these enforcement procedures are joined, they are independent enforcements.The issues explained above must be clarified in the Turkish legislation.&nbsp;

Effect of Completion of Judgments on Finalization and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil Procedure Law

Liability expresses the responsibility individuals have to fix the damage they have caused to others. This responsibility may arise from a contract or tort, as well as from the law. One of the crucial problems of determining a debtor’s liability is whether it should be assessed by evaluating only external factors or by also evaluating internal factors. When taking objective factors into account, the liability of the debtor is a strict liability. However, to consider subjective factors means that liability is based on fault.Different types of liability were practiced in Roman law, which lasted almost 1,300 years. Initially, the rule generally was strict liability. Afterwards, first in tort law and then in contractual law, fault liability occurred. In the period of Justinian I, however, fault liability became the rule.Beginning in the middle of the Regnum period, the evolution toward fault liability commenced by means of intent, as sought for in tort law. In the Laws of the Twelve Tables, only intent was sought for liability in murder. With the Lex Aquilia adopted toward the end of the 3rd century BC, negligence was also considered sufficient for the existence of liability in the field of wrongful acts resulting in damage to property.The idea of being careful and not harming others originated in Greek philosophy and was seen to be effective in the transition from strict liability to fault liability, which developed as a measure of responsibility. The owner and father of the family (pater familias) was considered responsible for the wrongful acts and damages caused by the slaves and members of the family (filius familia) as well as the pets owned.With Lex Aquilia, negligence being accepted as adequate for the existence of liability resulting in damage to property also affected liability as understood in contract law, and the transition to fault liability began.The rule of “Uti lingua nuncupassit ita ius esto (as he declares orally, be that law)” which emerged in the old legal period regarding giving loans and was present in the Laws of the Twelve Tables, states that strict liability also applies to contracts. With the pre-classical legal period, the concepts of dolus and culpa began to find places for themselves. However, the concept of strict liability did not come to an end and continued to be in practice. With regards to debts imposed upon parties,&nbsp;the differences contracts had in their structure prevented the application of a single liability criterion for all contract types. For this reason, different liability criteria were in put into practice together, as had been the case in the pre-classical legal period when the transition first commenced. One criterion of liability current in that period was custodia (supervisory) liability. After this, diligentia can be mentioned as the first milestone of fault liability and utilitas as a special application of diligentia. In the era of Justinian I, the prevailing principle was omnis culpa liability, which expresses responsibility for all faults.Custodia liability was usually practiced in contracts when the debtor held property belonging to the creditor for his own benefit. As the prevailing principle throughout the classical period, custodia liability included unexpected situations (casus fortuitus), and thus also calls to mind guarantee liability. As a rule, a debtor was not liable for force majeure (vis maior) except in cases of default where the debtor’s liability expanded to include vis maior.Starting in the post-classical period and based on slight negligence, diligentia liability was accepted by taking into consideration the care that a good head of household (pater familias) should show. Diligentia liability is the subjectivation of custodia, which expresses objective liability. Later in the post-classical period, the importance Christianity attached to will greatly impacted the acceptance of fault lability. Being based on culpa (negligence), diligentia liability was objectified by seeking out the attention and care (culpa in abstracto) that a good pater familias should show. This objective liability, in terms of some obligatio, could also be combined with subjective elements by seeking the attention and care that the debtor should show in his own affairs. This criterion was expressed as culpa in concreto and constituted the lightened version of diligentia. During the reign of Justinian I, culpa liability became properly clear. Failing to show the attention and care that anyone is able to show was expressed as culpa lata (gross negligence) and considered equal to intent. In this period, the benefit obtained from the contract was taken into account in order to determine the degree of liability of the debtor, and the attention and care a debtor should show increased if the debtor had more benefits. However, some relationships such as mandatum (mandate) and negotiorum gestio (acting without authority) placed the care and attention required by the debtor who had no interest at the highest level.Due to the changes that took place in technology and social life with the Industrial Revolution, fault liability has become insufficient for eliminating the damages individuals suffered. Increased employment rates and expansion of activities and businesses that pose grave dangers to the people and environment have led to a return to strict liability. In this context, certain persons such as those who employ others,&nbsp;who have animals and are the heads of households, or who are owners of building facilities are held responsible for the damages suffered by others under certain conditions, even if they are not at fault. To accept all these responsibilities, rules similar to those in Roman law have been accepted, and the principle of strict liability was put into practice once again as it had in the past.Some of these liabilities appear to be based on aggravated versions of diligentia liability, while others are based on hazard, and others still are just simply based on the causation principle.Fault liability also means responsibility arising from all kinds of fault, especially intent, just as it had been in late Roman law. Utilitas is also a principle of Roman law that is currently used to determine liability in today’s modern law. Modern law has deemed vis maior to be a reason that interrupts the causal link and accepts it as a case that prevents the emergence of liability. Concordantly, the debtor who is under the fault liability will also be accepted as liable for unexpected situations in case of default.&nbsp;

The Process of Transforming Strict Liability into Liability for Fault in Roman Law, and the Effect This  Transformation Has Had on Modern Law

Barış

This study describes the fiscal law order in Turkey during the period of the 1921 Constitution and analyzes the effects of the change in the constitutional order on the fiscal law rules. The main source for the study is the official minutes of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA), which is responsible for discussing fiscal law issues and creating rules. The data obtained from this source were generalized by induction, and the observed change was analyzed in comparison with the data in the previous and subsequent periods.The 1921 Constitution resulted from a republican political program against the Ottoman monarchy and the Istanbul government and from a nationalist political movement against both the Allied Powers and some ethnic groups in Turkey that supported their occupation. This program ultimately prevailed and manifested itself in the two constitutional concepts—national sovereignty and unity of forces (the supremacy of the assembly)—distilled in the text of the 1921 Constitution. Therefore, in the first part of this study, an answer is sought to the question of how the concept of national sovereignty was created with fiscal legislations in this period. The second part, however, focuses on the various effects and consequences of the change in the use of the budgetary authority, which embodies the concept of parliamentary supremacy.With respect to the first issue, the authority to impose fiscal burdens, given to the legislature under the 1876 Constitution, but not generally implemented at this time, was radically embraced by the TGNA during this period. The sharpest reaction here was directed at fiscal transactions in the form of decrees that were followed by the Ottoman government. Under the influence of the policy of national sovereignty, financial regulation was left solely to the law. Undoubtedly, legality is not just such a formal choice. It also functioned to replace Ottoman domination with the sovereignty of the TGNA and to provide a legal basis for de facto actions. Second, it became the basis for both the control of the executive and for the executive’s rejection of demands made against it. Thus, legality constitutes the basis of legal boundaries and the new regime for all power centers.Regarding the second issue, the effect of the period on the use of budgetary power reveals a more unusual picture. Despite the ongoing inability to make a regular budget that it inherited from the Ottoman legal order, the TGNA used its budget-making power through the Budget Commission that directed the ministries. Nevertheless, to judge by the performance of the budget and final account laws, the TGNA seems to have been relatively unsuccessful as a legislative body. One of the main reasons for this is the absence of a disciplined party structure. However, for the first time, the parliament decided that the ministers should pay compensation to the treasury on the grounds that they harmed the state, based on the legal responsibility of the ministers. At the same time, as an example of political accountability, ministers held responsible for acting arbitrarily or ignoring the will of the Assembly were dismissed through a vote of no confidence. Likewise, the 1921 budget was the first to be rejected by the TGNA.In sum, the period of the 1921 Constitution shows an extraordinary interim character in which the political structure, being incompatible with national sovereignty, was partially liquidated through the implementation of the constitutional fiscal rules. Fiscal conflicts played a role in shaping the government system, and some of those that were inherited from the previous period remained to be resolved in the next (1924) constitutional period. The 1921 Constitution, however, provides no automatic and instant formulas in this fiscal regime change. In fact, the Assembly’s ability to use its fiscal powers is a product of a political change, rather than legal change. In other words, the legal adoption of financial issues in this period resulted from the national sovereignty policy rather than from the adoption of the 1921 Constitution.&nbsp;

The Reflections of the 1921 Constitution on Turkey’s Fiscal Law Order

Erkan

As a rule in criminal law, each act that constitutes a crime is punished independently. In this context, the punishment of an act as a rule does not affect the criminal liability arising from another action the same offender performed prior to or after that act. In some cases, however, a very close relationship exists between more than one action committed consecutively by the same offender. This relationship becomes more visible when the offender in particular violates the same or similar legal values with acts that are committed in the same context and that become more and more serious. In such cases, legal doctrine states that the offender should be punished only for their posterior act, and this has given rise to the concept of unpunishable prior acts. Which legal basis this concept is based on is a highly controversial issue. The conclusions from this discussion aim to determine the conditions and scope of this concept.This study will approach the concept of unpunishable prior acts as well as its legal foundations, conditions, and consequences. In this context, the doctrine must first be said to consider this concept mostly within the scope of the principles of ideal concurrence of offenses (or improper joinder of offenses). However, under which principle of the ideal concurrence of offenses this concept should be addressed is controversial. While some authors have tried to explain the concept according to the principle of subsidiarity, others have attempted to explain it according to the principle of consumption. Some authors have also made a distinction and referred to both principles in terms of acceptable categories.Despite multiple acts being found under the concept of unpunishable previous acts, each of which gives rise to a different crime, close links exist among them. This is because these acts are committed under the same context, against the same victim, and on the same subject while violating the same (or another closely related) legal value. Thus, although multiple acts are found, each of which constitutes a crime, these acts are the subject of a single normative-social valuelessness judgment due to the connections among them. Within the framework of this valuelessness judgment, the offender is punished only for the more severe posterior act, and as such, punishment for prior acts becomes unnecessary. For this reason, the norm violated by the posterior offense exhausts the previous one. In this respect and according to this study’s opinion, unpunishable previous acts are based on the principle of consumption.This legal basis also establishes the circumstances under which previous actions cannot be punished: First, more than one crime must have occurred. The concept of impunity for previous acts will not need to be applied for the occurrence of a single act or crime. In addition, previous and posterior actions must be against the same victim, committed on the same subject, and violate the same (or another closely related) legal value. In addition, the previous and subsequent actions must be processed in the same context, and the posterior action must cause greater unjustness. Lastly, the posterior act must be punishable.Crimes that meet these conditions can be classified under various categories. The first category involves the offender committing another crime in preparation for or as a precursor to the posterior crime before it is committed. The production or purchase of instruments to be used in the crime of counterfeiting money prior to the act of counterfeiting money can be given as an example of this (Turkish Penal Code [TPC] Arts. 197 &amp; 200). The second category involves the offender first starting to commit a crime, whether intentionally or negligently, and then stopping it. However, within the framework of the offender’s new purpose that emerges immediately afterward, this time they commit a more severe crime. The case where the offender first injures a victim, whether intentionally (TPC Art. 86) or negligently (TPC Art. 89), and then intentionally kills the victim (TPC Art. 81) can be given as an example of this. In the third and last category, the offender commits a negligent crime. However, immediately afterwards, the offender commits a more severe negligent crime against the same victim. The case where the offender first injures the victim negligently (TPC Art. 89) and then kills the victim negligently (TPC Art. 85) is an example of this.In all these cases, the offender is punished only for their posterior act. The offender is not punished separately for their prior actions, and these prior actions are not taken into account while determining the penalty.&nbsp;

Unpunishable Prior Acts

Ümmühan Elçin

This paper proposes a paradigm shift in the international refugee regime. It defends that burden sharing must shift from state-centrism and security concerns to the human rights and international community perspective. Furthermore, it makes proposals to fill normative gaps regarding temporary protection and refugee burden-sharing.The right to seek and enjoy asylum in other countries for a person who is faced with persecution is a human right. However, it does not constitute an international obligation for states. According to the present refugee regime, refugee admission is within the exclusive sovereignty and entirely at the discretion of the host states. States usually avoid admitting refugees due to various concerns regarding security, their social and economic situation, and the like. As a result, the refugee burden is placed on the shoulders of just a few states. In fact, it should be shared by all.We see some burden-sharing mechanisms proposed in theory or arising in practice. Offering compensation to the host state, providing safe havens for refugees, applying quotas, exercising the state of origin liability, and sharing responsibility among a certain region or group are possible examples. These solutions, however, clearly do not work in real life.The study is based on Friedmann’s thesis on the everchanging international community and, thus, on an understanding of international law.The paper advocates placing the burden of refugees, including the burden of temporary protection, on the international community as a whole. This argument concerns which refugee burden-sharing is a jus cogens from which the international community as a whole benefits. It argues that jus cogens entails erga omnes obligation for the entire international community. In fact, erga omnes obligations may arise even if refugee burden-sharing is not accepted as jus cogens under international law.While discussing refugee burden-sharing, the study uses the logic of collective action and prisoner’s dilemma. Olson’s theory of the logic of collective action can be&nbsp;summarized as follows: Groups of individuals with common interests are expected to act in their common interests; however, single individuals often act in their own interests. Although the international community as a whole will benefit from refugee burden-sharing, states prioritize their national interests and refrain from admitting refugees.Tucker’s prisoner dilemma theory is a zero-sum game theory based on cooperative behaviour. It concerns two persons, jointly charged with violating the law, who are held separately by the police. These persons fail to cooperate, which leads to the worst result for both of them. Failure to cooperate in sharing the burden of refugees leads the international community to the worst outcome for both refugees and states.This paper also contends that states that participate in refugee burden-sharing have special rights to claim from other states. This argument is inspired by Hart’s theory of “mutuality of restriction.” Hart expresses his theory as follows: “when a number of persons conduct any joint enterprise according to rules and thus restrict their liberty, those who have submitted to these restrictions when required have a right to a similar submission from those who have benefited by their submission.” Accordingly, the refugee burden-sharing obligation for all states has its roots in international cooperation.Furthermore, this study notes the normative gaps in the international law on temporary protection and refugee burden-sharing from a human rights perspective and the insufficiency of institutions related to the subject matter such as the UNHCR. It focuses on normative gaps to start a discussion on the legal obligations of states. The article suggests the following: to make universal legal arrangements, which overlap with obligatory characteristics of the jus cogens norm and erga omnes obligation, increasing the effectiveness of international institutions, interstate cooperation, and spreading the responsibility to the international community as a whole.&nbsp;

Propositions to Fill for Normative Gaps on Temporary Protection and Refugee Burden Sharing

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has caused a pandemic and is a zoonotic virus that has spread from animals to humans. Studies show that the virus most likely emerged from a wet market in China where wild animals are kept and traded under poor conditions. SARS-CoV-2 has been categorized as a bat-derived virus in the coronavirus family. Scientific research has indicated that an intermediate host should have occurred for the virus to have transferred from bats to humans. Pangolin is a species unique to Asia and has been identified as the probable link in this process. The species is highly demanded and illegally traded at a large scale. The pangolin species has been listed as a species of concern by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and its international trade is subject to strict rules.CITES is a comprehensive global convention regulating wildlife trade regarding endangered species. The convention was first enacted in 1975 and now has 182 parties. The convention’s aim is to regulate the trade of endangered species in order to limit their exploitation. In this process three appendices have been established. Appendix I specifically restricts the trade of endangered species. Appendix II protects species that may be threatened with extinction by requiring their trade to be controlled. Appendix III prevents species that may be facing excessive consumption at the request of a party already involved in the trade of said species that need assistance in preventing other countries from exploiting them. The implementation of the convention depends on the cooperation of the Convention Secretariat, the parties, and international organizations such as INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization. The convention works through a licensing system across borders to identify illegal trade. The exporting and importing states parties in this structure have different obligations regarding the monitoring of trade.The possible link between SARS-CoV-2 and endangered species (i.e., the pangolin) has raised several questions regarding CITES. If the illegal trade of endangered species plays a role in a zoonotic disease, is this because of CITES being insufficiently implemented? If so, can CITES or its mechanisms be strengthened to tackle this problem? Lastly, can CITES help prevent future global zoonotic diseases such as SARS-CoV-2? This article aims to answer these questions.Since the establishment of CITES, various reforms and proposals for amendments to it have been suggested by NGOs and scholars. The most assertive approaches involve banning wildlife trade altogether and developing CITES to intervene in domestic trade. However, these approaches might actually harm CITES. Keeping in mind developing countries’ inability regarding controlling and monitoring wildlife trade, any strict regulations or prohibitions may move the trade to the black market.A recent proposal from Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime is an amendment to CITES that will establish a new list (Appendix IV) containing the species that pose a threat to public and/or animal health. However, creating a new list may take years and might not provide the intended results, because CITES lacks the funding mechanism to implement new regulations like these.Another issue of debate involves considering illegal wildlife trade as a serious international crime. The Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime suggests regulating illegal wildlife trade under organized crime through new protocol within the framework of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC). However, this would leave personal offenses out of the structure. States’ willingness to add a new binding protocol may additionally be another challenge.Illegal wildlife trade is a threat to both public and animal health. To tackle this problem, scholars propose regulations for protecting species that are transported and providing standard care for captured species and rules for breeding. These suggestions may help deal with zoonotic diseases. Having the CITES system adopt standards would be easier and is achievable through decisions made at a Conference of the Parties.The overall main purpose of CITES is to regulate and protect endangered wild species. Statistics show that CITES as one of the oldest environmental protection conventions has actually been successful in combating illegal trade. The long-term observations of wildlife show that, once a species is listed in CITES, their population tends to increase in numbers. For this reason, all suggestions for amendments and revisions should be made by taking into account the achievements of the Convention.&nbsp;

CITES as an International Instrument Against Pandemics that Threaten Human Life

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Ayşe

One of the principles that Civil Procedure Law based on is the “dispositional control of the parties principle”. Under this principle, parties’ have the right solve private law disputes according to their dispositions. Under the principle, dispute parties are free to decide choose or not to choose litigation as way of resolution. Principle also covers to end the dispute by an settlement (in principle). One of the dispute ending options under the principle is the parties settlement agreement. Settlement agreement, generally, is an agreement in which parties agree to ending the dispute with mutual compromise. In other words, it can be also defined as an agreement in which parties completely or partially ending the dispute mutually. Settlement agreement, regulated as an stand alone regulation for the first time in the Article 313/1 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) numbered 6100. Under the Article, settlement agreement means that the parties agreement on to ending the dispute completely or partially in an outstanding case. This definition only covers the in-judicial settlement. Because the definition requires a settlement in front of the court. Out of judicial/court settlement is not regulated under the CCP. Because, this kind of settlement fall in the area of the Turkish Code of Obligations. Out of judicial settlement is an agreement out of the court in which the parties agreed to end the dispute completely or partially at mutual interest point they considered. There is no necessity of an outstanding ongoing case process at this point. Additionally, an ongoing trial process would not affect the out of judicial settlement. It is needed a transformation of the out of judicial settlement to an in-judicial settlement to affect an ongoing trial at the same dispute. Out of judicial settlement is an substantive law agreement. This agreement is fall in the provisions (General Provisions) of the Turkish Code of Obligations. Out of judicial settlement agreement is not be need to be made in written because of the “freedom as to form” principle of the Turkish Code of Obligations. If the out of judicial settlement transformed to an in-judicial settlement it could affect an ongoing trial at the same dispute. Parties convey the out of judicial settlement to the court and then court get in record the agreement. After that moment, out of judicial settlement is evaluated as an in-judicial settlement. It is not needed that the whole provisions of the out of judicial settlement to get in recorded in the trial documents. Article 315/1 of the CCP regulates the provisions on effects and solutions of settlement agreements. Under this provisions when the out of judicial settlement transformed to an in-judicial settlement it would has the same legal power and&nbsp;solutions of it. The first solution of this transformation is the ending of existing dispute, in other words ending of the existing court trial. The second important outcome of the in-judicial settlement agreement is that it would have the same legal effect of final court decision. In-judicial settlement has an important another legal effect that it would has the power of the final court decisions under the Enforcement and Bankruptcy Code Article 38. If the out of judicial settlement transformed to an in-judicial settlement it would has the same affect as well.

Out of Judicial Settlement and Its Effect on Trial

Involvement of persons with disabilities in business life is extremely important – just as much as in their access to education and health services - and in their enjoyment of social protection because unemployment makes individuals becoming unemployed feel like they are useless. Involvement of persons with disabilities in business life, and pursuing the same eliminates the social effects caused by the risk of unemployment. In addition, working persons with disabilities benefit from social insurance protection based on their work, and thus a decrease occurs in the expenses made for persons with disabilities from the social security budget. While the policies relevant to persons with disabilities started with passive policies such as protecting persons with disabilities, today they have transformed into active policies such as ensuring the complete participation of persons with disabilities in employment. In Turkey, the number of persons with disabilities recorded on the National Database on Persons with Disabilities is 2.461.828 for the first half of the year 2019. And the rate of participation of persons with disabilities in employment is 22.1 percent. When compared with the data for the EU and OECD, this number is very low. Thus, increasing the participation in employment of persons with disabilities is also among the objectives relevant to business life. When the legal regulations in Turkey are examined, it can be observed that rules relevant to the protection of persons with disabilities have taken place in Constitutional Law for the first time. According to Article 17 of Constitutional Law, everyone has the right to live, and to preserve and improve their material and moral presence. And, according to Article 49 of Constitutional Law, working is everyone’s right and obligation. The government takes the required measures to increase the standard of living of employees, protect the unemployed, and support working. The government’s actualization of this obligation is especially important in terms of persons with disabilities who are experiencing many difficulties in involvement in business life. For this reason, it is required that the government should take special measures for persons with disabilities, and to provide the work environment for them. Hence, in Article 50 of Constitutional Law, it has been emphasized that no one could be employed in works not conforming to their strength, and the rule of “the ones having physical and psychological insufficiency are distinctively protected in terms of working conditions” has been established. And the most basic law regarding persons with disabilities is the Law on Persons with Disabilities no 5378. This law intends that persons with disabilities should benefit from fundamental rights and freedoms, and to ensure their participation in social life under equal conditions with other individuals. Article 30 of Labour Law no 4857 regulates the details relevant to the liability of employers to employ persons&nbsp;with disabilities. Article 30 was regulated again in 2008, and new principles were established regarding the employment of persons with disabilities. In accordance with this, employers employing fifty or more employees in the workplace have to employ a specific number of persons with disabilities. When Article 30 of Labour Law is examined, it is observed that the straightforward quota method has been adopted regarding the employment of persons with disabilities. The quota determined within this scope is three percent for workplaces in the private sector, and four percent for workplaces in the public sector. It is required that the following conditions are present for liability of the employer to employ persons with disabilities to arise : i) The workplace’s inclusion in the scope of Labour Law, or Maritime Labour Law, ii) Employment of fifty or more employees in the workplace. In case of the presence of these conditions, the employers are required to employ persons with disabilities whose rate of disability is at least 40 percent. Persons with disabilities should be employed through the Turkish Employment Agency. But the employer may also employ a person with disabilities through his own means. In this case, it is required to inform the Turkish Employment Agency, and to have the person with disabilities recorded at the Agency. An administrative fine is imposed on the employer acting against the liability of employing persons with disabilities. Another method regarding the employment of persons with disabilities is the concept of sheltered employment. Briefly, this method is ensuring the employment of persons with disabilities – for whom it is difficult to bring them in business life - within the frame of special conditions. In this system, there are sheltered workplaces where the working environment is specifically arranged in order to ensure the employment of persons with disabilities. In Turkish Law, the principles of this subject have been regulated in the Law on Persons with Disabilities, and in a certain regulation issued on this subject. That Regulation first came into force in 2006, and it was renewed in 2013. Persons with disabilities who will be employed at sheltered workplaces, are not only persons with physical disabilities but persons with mental and psychological disabilities. In terms of acquiring the status of a sheltered workplace, some conditions have been sought by the Regulation. Above all, it is required that the workplace is one which holds the qualifications determined by the Regulation, and where at least eight persons with disabilities are employed. In addition, the ratio of the number of persons with disabilities who will be employed at a sheltered workplace to the number of total employees shouldn’t be less than seventy five percent. In the Regulation, the physical conditions and equipment that the sheltered workplace has to have (safety, traffic safety, fire protection etc.) were also specified. A specific part of the remunerations&nbsp;of the persons with disabilities being employed at sheltered workplaces is paid by the government. In Turkish law, amendments made in time in Article 30 of Labour Law being the basis of the liability of employing persons with disabilities, and especially the increase in incentives for the employers in private sector are deemed as proper regulations. Again, allowing the employers to find workers who will be employed by their own means is also among those steps which would facilitate employment. Certainly, considering the measures ensuring employment as incentives rather than a quota and fine method would be a more constructive approach.

The Liability of the Employer to Employ Disabled Employee

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Ayşe Ledün

Night work has been the subject of many discussions due to its contradictory nature to the biological structure of the human body. This attribute of night work requires that night work and day work should not be handled in the same way in the legal order. The developments in the field of Occupational Health and Safety Law, and the researches regarding the effects of night work on the human health, constantly demand the review and improvement of the regulations regarding night work. In this regard, the most important protective provision regarding the workers working at night could be the limit on the night working time. In accordance with the Article 69 (I) of the Labour Law No. 4857, “night” is defined as the period starting at the latest at 20.00 in the evening, and lasting at the earliest until 06.00 in the morning, which in any case lasts maximum eleven hours. Furthermore, in accordance with Article 69 (III), night work shall not exceed seven and a half hours. However, significant exceptions have been recently adopted to this rule. The amendment, enacted in 2015, allows employers in some sectors (private security, tourism and jobs related to healthcare) to demand night work in excess of seven and a half hours by obtaining written approval from the worker. It should be noted that the regulations concerning night work are particularly important regarding the work carried out by shift work. Taking into consideration the need for governing special procedures and principles on this subject, a regulation specifically on shift work has been issued, and exceptions to the rule on the limit of the night working time are also included in this regulation. In my opinion, the propriety of this change amendment is highly debatable. It can be argued that the service should continue uninterruptedly in the sectors mentioned in the Article (private security, tourism and jobs related to healthcare). However, the employment of the workers for longer periods is not the only way to ensure the continuity of the service. Although written approval of the worker enabling the night work in excess of seven and a half hours is stipulated, the worker-protective approach of the Labour Law which protects the workers even from themselves, especially on the issues regarding occupational health and safety should not be disregarded. It should also be noted that the Regulation on shift work also includes a statement which is not included in the text of the Labour Law. In the Regulation; it is prescribed that the workers employed by the subcontractor in the workplaces, where private security, tourism and health services are carried out, also fall under this scope. If the letter of the statement is followed; it could be concluded that all workers employed by the subcontractor in the health, tourism and private security sectors may be employed at night for more than seven and a half hours. However, it is clear that such an interpretation would be incompatible with the exception regulated in the Labour&nbsp;Law. The provision of the regulation should be interpreted in a manner to cover subcontractor workers who are employed in the sectors referred to in the Labour Law, specifically in cases where subcontracted work is carried out with respect to these sectors. It has been concluded that the recent changes in the field of night work constitute a reversal in terms of workers’ rights. It is clear that the continuity of the services without disruption can be also maintained by increasing the number of shifts. Furthermore, I would like to draw attention to the fact that the regulations regarding night work are quite disorganized. In this regard, it may be suggested that all the rules regarding night work should fall into a single regulation. As a result, it may be stated that there is a need for the review of the regulations on night work in our legislation.

Night Work and The Evaluation of the Amendments Regarding the Limit of Night Work Period

Cemile

This article deals with multi-tier dispute resolution clauses incorporating both mediation and arbitration together under Turkish Law. I use the terminology of “med-arb” not only for the situation where the mediator acts as an arbitrator, but rather in a general meaning covering all instances where the arbitration is commenced following an unsuccessful mediation. The purpose of this article is to discuss the validity of the med-arb agreements, the consequences of starting arbitration before the mediation fails, the effects of the mediation proceedings and of the mediator acting as an arbitrator on the arbitration that follows the mediation as well as the admissibility of the documents and factual evidence exchanged at the mediation. For the purpose of this article, the comparative laws, international ethics rules, international guidelines on the conflict of interest and admissibility of evidence are reviewed along with Turkish law. Turkish Code on Mediation in Civil Law Disputes stipulates some provisions related to the med-arb. These provisions shall apply equally to both domestic and international arbitrations where the place of arbitration is Turkey. Following the jurisprudence of the Turkish Supreme Court, a med-arb agreement is valid only if it reflects, without doubt, both parties’ consents to the arbitration following the failure of the mediation proceedings. Therefore, a multi-tier dispute resolution clause subject to Turkish law needs to be drawn carefully. In this respect IBA Guidelines for Drafting International Arbitration Clauses are of assistance. In cases where one of the parties commences arbitration without a recourse to mediation first, the arbitral tribunal should make a decision on the admissibility of the claim. There is no direct provision related to the question of admissibility under Turkish law. Under Turkish law, in parallel with the practice of international arbitration, the tribunal has to interpret the med-arb agreement to make a decision on the question of whether the recourse to mediation is a pre-condition of the arbitration. If the mediation is a pre-condition, then the tribunal should suspend the arbitral&nbsp;proceedings and direct the parties to the mediation. However, in the case that the mediation fails, the tribunal may resume the arbitral proceedings. There is nothing under Turkish law suggesting that a precondition of arbitration is a jurisdictional issue rather than an admissibility issue. The advantages of the med-arb are subject to heated debates among people holding different perspectives. Such advantages are controversial since when a dispute arises and the arbitration starts without a recourse to mediation, the respondent may object to the jurisdiction of the tribunal or to the admissibility of the claim relying on the fact that the pre-condition to try mediation first is not met. Such an objection may cause arbitration to be delayed and/or the costs of arbitration to increase. Therefore, before opting for a med-arb agreement the parties should evaluate the possibility of settling their dispute at the Med-arb. The parties who are able to consider their commercial interests do not need a med-arb agreement as they are able to settle the disputes without the assistance of a mediator. They first try to settle the dispute, in some cases for years, and to avoid adjudication by an arbitral tribunal. They only start arbitration when there is no possibility of settlement of their dispute and of saving their commercial alliance. In such cases, med-arb agreements become a tool to delay the proceedings and increase the costs for the claimant to force him or her to give up his or her claim. Having said that, for the parties who are unable to consider their commercial interest and unable to avoid adjudication, med-arb agreement may be the right dispute resolution clause. In a med-arb agreement, the parties may wish the mediator to act as their arbitrator if the mediation fails. Neither the Turkish Code of Mediation in Civil Disputes nor the Turkish International Arbitration Code prevents a mediator to act as an arbitrator. Turkish Ethics Rules for Mediators stipulate that a mediator may act as an arbitrator only if the parties have agreement in writing. Therefore, any mediator to act as arbitrator needs to have the parties’ written consent. In international mediation and arbitration practices, the scholars and practitioners widely accept that having an arbitrator who previously acted as a mediator generates a number of serious risks and concerns. First of all, the mediator-arbitrator may not protect his or her impartiality in the arbitration because of the facts that she or he became aware of during the mediation. Secondly, the mediator-arbitrator may rely on the confidential information exchanged in caucus while making the award. Thirdly, the mediator may be too willing to act as an arbitrator and as a result the mediation may prematurely fail. Finally, the mediator may abuse his or her powers and force the parties to settle their disputes as the mediator suggests. The parties may feel that if they are not able to settle their dispute and proceed to the arbitration, the mediator-arbitrator would make an arbitral award in parallel of the recommendations at the mediation phase. Considering the severity of the consequences, if the parties agree to have an arbitrator&nbsp;who previously acted as their mediator, they need to be aware of such consequences and they need to make an informed decision accordingly . The Turkish Code of Mediation in Civil Law Disputes restrains the ability of the mediator-arbitrator to rely on the documents produced during the mediation for the purpose of settlement and defines which documents are in this category. In the case where the mediator-arbitrator relies on these documents while making the award, depending on the extent the document or information has a bearing on the award, the arbitral award may be cancelled, or its enforcement may be refused. In November 2019, Istanbul Arbitration Center (ISTAC) introduced its Medarb Rules. ISTAC Med-arb Rules are the first published institutional Med-arb rules. ISTAC Med-arb Rules reflect the best practices in international mediation – arbitration. I believe that ISTAC Med-arb Rules will be welcomed in the field of international dispute resolution.

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