Official Gazette / June 8-14, 2026

Significant changes have been made to the General Terms of the Compulsory Financial Liability Insurance for Motor Vehicles. With the new regulation coming into effect on July 1, 2026, it will no longer be necessary to file a separate application for the depreciation in value of vehicles involved in traffic accidents; the depreciation compensation process will now proceed automatically. In the expert report prepared after an accident, the depreciation in value will also be calculated separately, and the insurance company will notify the beneficiaries of the determined depreciation amount through official channels. Furthermore, insurance companies will be required to use original parts when replacing parts that have been damaged in a traffic accident and cannot be repaired. Payments will not be made by the insurance company to those who leave the scene of an accident without authorization, except in cases where they must go to a hospital. 

Substantial changes have been made to identity verification methods in the Electronic Communications Sector's Applicant and Consumer Rights Regulations to prevent terrorism and fraud and to clear out abandoned lines. Following the regulation that will come into effect on June 25, 2026, subscriptions cannot be made with cards such as driver's licenses, national identity cards, or professional cards that lack electronic identity verification capability. Operators will be required to perform identity verification using face recognition, fingerprints, or e-Devlet passwords alongside identity documents. Operators will check the activity of existing subscribers every 3 months and will close the lines of subscribers in cases such as death or termination. Operators will not be able to open more than 6 lines for Turkish citizens, 3 for foreigners, and 1 for tourists under one person's name. Individuals with more than this number of lines will be given the opportunity to transfer their lines within 6 months. Subscriptions of foreign nationals will be re-verified, and lines that cannot be verified will be closed within 6 months.

The limit for deferring debts without collateral for employers, which was raised to 1 million TL with the previous omnibus law, has now been increased to 10 million TL by Presidential Decree No. 11414. No collateral will be requested from employers whose total deferred debt does not exceed 10 million TL. For debts exceeding 10 million TL, collateral will only be required for half of the excess amount.

In a landmark ruling, the Court of Cassation (Yargıtay) has ruled that weekly rest days coinciding with the annual leave period used by employees cannot be counted as part of the leave duration.

The Competition Board has determined that companies operating in the casting agency/management sector were collectively setting agency commission rates and service conditions, and has decided that casting direction and casting agency/management activities must be conducted independently from production and casting agency/management activities. Furthermore, in its decision, it ruled that casting agencies/managers cannot engage in any other activities such as consulting, accounting, or supervising on behalf of the producer in content for which they provide talent; it also ruled that the casting of a talent cannot be strictly conditioned on the casting of other talents.