Eti Mah. Toros Sok. No: 15/5, Hikmet Ünal Business Centre, 06570 Çankaya / Ankara, Türkiye
Practice area
Annulment and compensation actions, zoning and permits, civil servants and tax disputes.
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Decisions of ministries, municipalities and other public bodies can be challenged before the administrative courts. The deadline is usually sixty days — thirty days before the tax courts — and it does not wait for you to gather every document.
Being based in Ankara, close to the Council of State and central administration, we handle administrative and tax disputes for companies, investors and individuals across Türkiye.
At a glance
An annulment action challenges the legality of an administrative act in terms of competence, form, grounds, subject matter and purpose. It must be filed within sixty days of notification. If the act is annulled, the administration must comply within thirty days.
Where an administrative act or activity causes loss, the claimant first applies to the authority within one year of learning of the act and in any case within five years; if rejected or unanswered, a full-remedy action is filed within sixty days.
The court may suspend the act pending judgment if it is clearly unlawful and its implementation would cause harm difficult or impossible to remedy. Stay decisions are critical in demolition orders, licence cancellations and debarments.
We represent civil servants in disciplinary, appointment, promotion and dismissal disputes. A disciplinary penalty imposed without taking the employee’s defence, or after the limitation period, is annulled on that ground alone.
Zoning plans, building permits, demolition orders, sealing decisions and administrative fines under the Zoning Law are challenged before the administrative courts. Administrative fines under the Misdemeanours Law are generally challenged before the criminal judgeship of peace within fifteen days.
Tax assessments and tax penalties arising from tax audits are challenged in the tax courts within thirty days of notification. The audit report and the evidence on which it relies — particularly allegations of fictitious invoices — must be examined line by line.
Before litigation, the taxpayer may seek reconciliation (uzlaşma) with the tax administration. Choosing between reconciliation and litigation depends on the strength of the case and the penalty exposure.
Yes. Foreign individuals and companies have the same right to challenge administrative acts. Courts may require security for costs from foreign claimants in some cases.
First-instance decisions often take one to two years; stay of execution requests are usually decided much sooner.
Discuss your administrative and tax law matter
Tell us briefly what happened and whether any deadline is running; we will explain the options and next steps. We work in English, French and Turkish.
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