The Ministry of Trade has published the Communiqués on the Prevention of Unfair Competition in Imports (2025/11-12-13-14). Following these communiqués, the duration of anti-dumping investigations regarding "fabrics woven from synthetic or artificial staple fibers," "stainless steel pipes," and "polystyrene" products has been extended by 5 years each, while a new anti-dumping investigation has been initiated against "wind turbine blade" products originating from the People's Republic of China. The term dumping refers to the practice of intentionally bringing and selling goods from abroad below their value in order to bankrupt domestic producers.
The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change has published the Regulation on Amendments to the Regulation on Energy Performance in Buildings. With this regulation, the obligation to install central heating systems in certain districts of Adana, Antalya, Mersin, Muğla, and Hatay has been lifted. Environmentally friendly solutions have been prioritized by keeping energy consumption lower in new buildings. Authorities and responsibilities in the processes of mechanical installation control, maintenance, and energy identity certificates have been reorganized. Inspection and reporting processes have been made more comprehensive. The responsibilities of organizations issuing energy identity certificates and authorities granting building permits have also been expanded.
The Constitutional Court, with its decision dated 27.03.2025 and numbered 2025/13e-2025/89k, has annulled the 2nd paragraph of Article 127 of the Civil Servants Law regarding "reprimand penalties," to be effective after 9 months (as of 26.03.2026). In its reasoning, the Court emphasized that there is no regulation regarding the statute of limitations to be followed in the event that the administration re-imposes a disciplinary penalty if the disciplinary penalties given to civil servants are canceled by a court decision (i.e., the ambiguity of the law). The article in question includes penalties of warning, reprimand, salary deduction, and withholding of step advancement. This annulment decision was issued to be valid only for reprimand penalties due to the application made.
The Constitutional Court, with its decision dated 26.06.2025 and numbered 2024/189e-2025/83k, has annulled the first sentence of the 6th paragraph of Article 45 of the Administrative Procedure Law. Prior to the annulment, according to this article, if regional administrative courts partially or fully accepted an appeal, the decision could not be appealed further. The Constitutional Court had made a similar decision last week regarding Criminal Proceedings and ruled that a conviction decision changed by the appellate court could be appealed.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has published the Regulation on Amendments to the Regulation on the Allocation of Public Immovables for Tourism Investments. Accordingly, parts of forest areas where the right of disposal has been granted to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism that remain on the seaside of the coastal edge line can now also be allocated for tourism investment.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has published the Communiqué on Amendments to the Turkish Food Codex Communiqué on Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (2019/14) (2025/19). A protein hydrolysate obtained by processing whey derived from cow's milk has been included in the protein hydrolysates used as a protein source in the production of infant food and follow-on formulas.
The Competition Authority has published the Group Exemption Communiqué on Specialization Agreements (2025/2). Following the communiqué, companies operating in the same market will be able to benefit from the exemption regarding "Agreements, Concerted Practices and Decisions Restricting Competition" in the law for joint production agreements, and this will also be valid in cases of exclusive purchasing/selling obligations and joint distribution of specialization products. Situations such as the transfer of intellectual property rights or the granting of licenses will be valid if they are a necessity of the specialization agreement and are a side provision (not the main purpose). Agreements aimed at preventing/restricting competition will remain outside the scope of the exemption if they involve price fixing, market/customer sharing, or limiting production quantities or sales, excluding joint distribution customers. Exemptions will remain valid as long as the total market share of the contracting parties does not exceed 20% of any of the markets for the products. A 2-year transition period will be applied for agreements that benefited from the group exemption in the repealed old communiqué but do not meet the current legislation, and the prohibitions in the new legislation will not be applied during this period.
The Ministry of Treasury and Finance has published the General Communiqué of the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (Serial No: 29). Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASPs) will execute crypto asset withdrawal transactions they mediate at least 48 hours after the purchase/swap/deposit transaction. For initial crypto asset withdrawal transactions, this period will be at least 72 hours. A daily limit of 3 thousand dollars and a monthly limit of 50 thousand dollars will be applied to stablecoins. However, these limits will be applied as double under the "travel rule." Platforms will request transaction descriptions from customers for all crypto transfer transactions. For crypto asset transfers intended for liquidity provision, market making, or inter-market arbitrage, daily/monthly limit rules may be lifted by taking a person-specific board of directors decision. Transfers originating from Capital Markets Board (SPK) legislation between platforms and custodian institutions will be exempt from these measures. Failure to comply with this legislation will result in the penalties stipulated in the Law on Prevention of Laundering Proceeds of Crime.
The Personal Data Protection Authority, with its decision dated 10.06.2025 and numbered 2025/1072k, has published a principle decision that imposes heavy responsibilities on data controllers regarding the processing of personal data by sending codes via SMS during the presentation of products/services. In practice, when shopping, the cashier would take our phone and ask us to share the code received with them. Heavy supervision and audit responsibilities have been defined for institutions that inappropriately obtain permission to process our personal data, which is completely unrelated to the shopping.
The General Assembly of Criminal Chambers of the Court of Cassation, with its precedent decision dated 22.04.2025 and numbered 2025/10-67e.-2025/184k, has ruled that lawyers appointed from the Code of Criminal Procedure (CMK) can receive acquittal attorney fees. However, despite the existence of this decision, for which it is not possible to make a decision in the opposite direction, local court decisions in the opposite direction continue to arrive.
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM), with its decision numbered 1456, decided on 25.06.2025 that the parliament, which was supposed to go into recess on July 1, 2025, in accordance with Article 93 of the Constitution, should not go into recess and should continue its work.
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