Legal Developments

With the amendment published in the Official Gazette on 03.12.2025, the provision titled “Access to health data by attorneys” under the Regulation on Personal Health Data has been repealed. The former provision stated: “Attorneys may not request their client’s health data based on a general power of attorney. For the transfer of a client’s health data to an attorney, a specially drafted power of attorney including an explicit clause indicating the data subject’s explicit cons

Following the release of the November inflation data by TÜİK, the new rental increase rate applicable to residential and commercial leases has been determined. Pursuant to Article 344 of the Turkish Code of Obligations, unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the rent may be increased provided that such increase does not exceed the rate of change in the twelve-month average CPI of the previous rental year. According to the published data, the twelve-month average change in CP