Private International Law Litigation

Private international law is the field I work in most and the subject of my doctoral research at Istanbul University. In practice it covers the procedural and substantive questions that arise whenever a foreign element enters a Turkish dispute: Which court has jurisdiction, which law applies, how a foreign party is served, whether security for costs is owed, and whether a foreign judgment or arbitral award can be recognised and enforced in Turkey.

I represent foreign claimants and defendants in Turkish civil and commercial courts, and Turkish parties with claims abroad. Much of this work turns on the Act on Private International and Procedural Law (MÖHUK) and on how the Court of Cassation applies it; several of the articles below examine decisions where that application went wrong.