A searchable bibliography of Turkish journal articles provided by the National Library of Turkey. Covers more than 5,000 Turkish journals, on law and other subjects, from 1923 to the present. Basic and advanced search facilities are available. The bibliography is entirely in Turkish.
This website provides full-text files of the legal agenda in Turkey in recent years as well as legislative documents (often sourced from government websites) relating to a wide variety of topics such as administrative regulation, arbitration, employment, telecommunications, the judiciary system, trade, tax, trademarks, and environmental practice. Also provides sample legal documents relating to sales, partnership, merger, rental, employment and trademark agreements. Both the website and documents are available in English and Turkish.
The Grand National Assembly's website has information in English and Turkish on the law-making process in Turkey, including introduction of bills, committee deliberation, budgetary process, ratification of international treaties and publication of laws. It also provides English translations of key documents including the Constitution of the Republic of Türkiye and the assembly's Rules of Procedure. Content in Turkish only includes the verbatim report of proceedings, a legislation database and a database of assembly resolutions.
Official website of the Turkish Ministry of Justice. The English-language version of the site includes translated legislation, including the Constitution and Penal Code. There is also information about the judicial system, administrative justice and links to courts and prisons.
Free online access to statutes, laws, regulations and repealed laws of Turkey, plus brief details of treaties. The site is hosted by the Turkish government’s General Directorate of Law and Legislation and is available in Turkish only.
Website of the Turkish Official Gazette made freely available online by the General Directorate of Legislation Development and Publication. The Gazette can be searched back to 1921 and can be viewed in Turkish only.
This site contains the 1982 Constitution of Turkey (amended up to 2007) in English, provided by the International Constitutional Law (ICL) project at the University of Bern in Switzerland. The document deals with fundamental, social and economic and political rights and duties, sources of legislative, executive and judicial power, national defence and financial and economic provisions.The site also provides historical and background information to the Constitution.
Official website of the Turkish Constitutional Court. The site provides news, background, historical and organisational information about the Court. The current and past constitutions, and legislation establishing the Court, are available on the site, together with summaries of judgments. Other features of the site include speeches, the Court's journal and links to related websites. The site is in Turkish throughout.
Official website of the Turkish Supreme Court. The English-language section of the site provides information on the background and history of the court, together with an outline of the legal system and court structure in Turkey. Other information on the site, including the case database, 'Karar Arama', is available in Turkish only.
The Human Rights Law Research Centre was established at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2000 to develop and promote awareness of human rights law in Turkey and internationally. The website has information about its events, courses and projects. The Publications section provides the Centre's reports (in Turkish), together with details of books from Bilgi University's Human Rights Law Studies series and books related to the Centre's projects. The site is in Turkish and English, with some content in Turkish only.
