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Welcome to T&U Law Office | Law Office in Turkey

Tuncay & Unutulmaz Law Office is a boutique law firm in Alanya, Antalya, Turkey serving commercial businesses, financial institutions, as well as private individuals in every area of law.
Tuncay & Unutulmaz Law Office | Law Office in Turkey | is preferred by clients having sophisticated corporate and financial transactions and complex dispute resolution proceedings that require attentive and scrupulous approach.
Founded by Lawyer Özer TUNCAY and Lawyer İsmail Murat UNUTULMAZ in 2001 and based in Alanya, Antalya - Turkey. Tuncay & Unutulmaz Law Office also provides a full range of legal services in Antalya …

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Most recent developments in sale of real estate to foreign citizens

I - Introduction:
Stability and growth reached in the Turkish economy has attired attentions of foreign investors and foreign real persons to Turkish real estate market. The fact that Turkey has been attracting foreign investment created a need for new regulations on the right to real estate of foreign citizens. There have been many amendments in many regulations regarding this issue, especially in the Deed Law, and some part of these regulations has been cancelled by the Constitutional Court.
For this reason provisions of the Deed Law regarding right to real estate …

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Duty of Making Rent Payments Through Bank Transfer or Mail Order Brought by Paper Nr. 268 on Income Tax

The explanations below are provided by the Paper Nr. 268 on Income Tax published on the Official Gazette on 29.07.2008. These explanations are about certification of residence or workplace rent payments and receipts through banks and post offices.
As of 01.11.2008, the duty to certify rent payments by means of documents to be drawn up by Banks or General Directorate of Post and Telegram Administration is brought

To those that have a rent income over YTL 500 for every resident in residential rents,
To landlords and lessees in workplace rents.

This way, landlords who …

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Divorce Causes in Turkish Law

Although every marriage is supposed to last forever anyone might need to divorce. Therefore we would like to indicate the divorce causes in the Turkish law. These causes are separated into two main groups: private and general. Adultery, attempt against life, cruelty and serious insult, infamous crime and dishonorable conduct, willful desertion, insanity. General divorce causes are incompatibility causing the unity of marriage irretrievably declined, the divorces in which the spouse at fault may take an action against the other party, divorces by mutual agreement, actual separation.
We will now summarize …

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Agreement of Construction and Zoning Status

In Turkey, due to the frequent changes of construction regulations and plans, the performance of an agreement may become unfulfilleable or impossible, because of the failure to obtain required licenses after the conclusion of the contract or cancellation of the construction works by the local authorities. In such cases, the answers to the questions “What will be the liability of the contractor?” or “Who will indemnify for the losses of client?” or “How will this incident affect the agreement between the undersigning parties?” shall vary upon two different schemes. The …

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Foreign Investments in Turkey and Types of Companies

Since the amendment of the Direct Foreign Investment Law on the 17.06.2003, there have been some changes in the existing system of corporate law. Differing from previous adjustments, obligations concerning permissions and minimum amount of capital are regulated in order to promote foreign investment. According to the Direct Foreign Investment Law; foreigner investors who directly make foreign investments are;

Foreign citizens
Turkish citizens who are residents in a foreign country
Legal entities and international enterprises which are established under a foreign country’s law. Foreign investors are entitled to establish new companies and branch …