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Circular on the Prevention of Psychological Harassment (Mobbing) in Workplaces (No: 2025/3) came into force after being published in today's Official Gazette (No: 32833).

The Ministry of Justice issued a statement on 26 February 2025. The statement concerns the foreseen amendments to the relevant Turkish legislation on telephone subscriptions, banks and financial institutions in line with the third aim of the Fourth Judicial Reform Strategy Document.

Within two separate Presidential Decrees published in the Official Gazette No. 32763 dated December 25, 2024, two important institutions were established within the Ministry of Family and Social Policies.

Arbitration increasingly replaces traditional state court mechanisms worldwide, as we observe in other ADR mechanisms.

Code No: 7445 (the "7 th Judicial Reform Package") was published at yesterday's (5 April 2023) official newspaper. The Package introduced amendments to the following 18 instruments:

The General Assembly of the Turkish Constitutional Court unanimously rendered a landmark pilot judgment in the case of N.K. (individual application, human rights, 2021/58970) where it held that the Turkish legal system lacks an effective remedy for the redress of the violations of the right to be tried within a reasonable time.

A Presidential decision published in today's Official Newspaper (No: 31761) indicated that the date of entry into force of the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (the "Singapore Convention on Mediation") for Turkey shall be 11 April 2022.

- We provided legal counseling services to international associations and companies,

The Portuguese Parliament has passed a labour legislation that subjects employers who contact their employees outside of working hours to fines. The concerned legislation which entered into force on 6 November 2021 affirms that employees' right to disconnect is now recognized by Portuguese law.

The "Regulation on Amendments to the Associations Regulation" was published in the official newspaper No: 31635 of 21.10.2021. The most important amendment introduced by the concerned instrument is that associations will be allowed to perform "electronic" General Assembly and Board of Directors meetings, provided that the conditions sought by Art....