Türkiye Arbitration Series: Challenging the international jurisdiction of Turkish courts

Grand Civil Chamber of the Court of Appeal decides that in cases in which the Turkish courts lack international jurisdiction, the objecting party is not required to identify a competent foreign court. The Chamber underscores that the court must evaluate the objection on jurisdiction regardless of whether a foreign court is indentified and, if it determines that it lacks jurisdiction, it must dismiss the case without referring it to any foreign authority.

Read the full Pekin Bayar Mizrahi article, "The Requirement of Specifying a Foreign Court When Raising a Jurisdiction Objection."