At our office in Çankaya, Ankara: litigation and legal counsel, primarily in competition, employment, inheritance, foreigners and citizenship, real estate, and administrative and tax law.
Our law office provides legal counsel and legal representation to local and foreign clients across a range of legal fields.
Preliminary inquiries and investigations before the Competition Authority, defence submissions, and actions against Board decisions.
Severance and notice pay, reinstatement, overtime claims, and rights arising from maternity leave.
Certificate of inheritance, renunciation of inheritance, dissolution of co-ownership, reduction and will actions.
Residence and work permit applications, objections to deportation decisions, international protection procedures and applications for Turkish citizenship.
Merve Tekeş Akkoç, Attorney at Law, graduated with honours from Gazi University Faculty of Law and, after graduating, served as an Assistant Migration Expert at the Presidency of Migration Management.
She completed her master’s degree in Public Law at the Institute of Social Sciences of Dokuz Eylül University with a thesis titled “Abandonment of Expropriation and Re-acquisition of the Expropriated Property”.
She continues her professional work in competition law, employment law, inheritance law, foreigners and citizenship law, land registry and real estate law, lease law, administrative and civil servant law, tax law and tax litigation, expropriation law, and obligations and contracts law.
Combining her academic background and public-sector experience with her professional practice, she makes it her principle to protect her clients’ rights and interests and to conduct legal proceedings with diligence, care and a solution-oriented approach.
You can reach our office on WhatsApp or by phone to arrange a meeting.
The information you share is handled under the duty of professional confidentiality.
Your ID and any documents you have on the matter: notifications, contracts, petitions, judgments, correspondence. Foreign clients also need their passport and, if any, their residence permit. If you do not have the originals, photocopies or photographs are enough for the first meeting. If you will meet by phone or WhatsApp, you can also send the documents as photographs.
The fee is set in a written agreement according to the nature, scope and estimated duration of the work. Under the Attorneyship Law, the fee cannot be lower than the Minimum Attorney Fee Tariff published each year by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations.
Yes. Counsel is provided for assessing the legal position before filing a lawsuit, drafting or reviewing contracts, and administrative applications.
Yes. For this you need to give the attorney a power of attorney. Abroad, a power of attorney can be issued at Turkish consulates, or notarised and apostilled in the country where you are.
Developments such as hearings, interim decisions and notifications are communicated to you. You can also view your file yourself through the UYAP Citizen Portal via e-Devlet.
Yes. Meetings can take place at the office, by phone or over WhatsApp. Since availability may be limited on hearing days, it is recommended that you agree the day and time in advance. Working hours are 09:00–19:00 on weekdays.
The articles are for information only and do not constitute legal advice.
