Case Comment: Turkish Courts and the Recognition and Enforcement of 
 Foreign Arbitral Awards

Turkish Civil Code No 4721, art 2: “Every person is bound to exercise his rights and fulfill his obligations according to the principles of equity. The legal order does not protect the evident abuse of rights.”

Istanbul Anadolu 1st Commercial Court of First Instance, 20th January 3

2013, Case No. 2011/161, Judgment No. 2013/480.

The 19th Civil Chamber of the Turkish Court of Cassation (n1).

Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (adopted 10 June 1958, entered into force 7th June 1959).

Gary B. Born, International Arbitration: Cases and Materials (2nd edn, Kluwer Law International 2015) 336.

19. HD, E. 1995/9108, K. 1995/9685, T. 15.11.1995: 62–63 Manisa Barosu Dergisi 1997, 38–42. (as cited in Nuray Eksi, ‘Chapter V: The Courts – A Critical Analysis of the Precedents of the Turkish Court of Appeal Relating to the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards’ (2008) Austrian Arbitration Yearbook 467, 485).

Nuray Eksi, ‘Chapter V: The Courts – A Critical Analysis of the Precedents of the Turkish Court of Appeal Relating to the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards’ (2008) Austrian Arbitration Yearbook 467, 481.

Van den Berg, ‘Should an International Arbitrator Apply the New York Convention of 1958?’, in The Art of Arbitration: Essays on International Arbitration, Liber Amicorum Pieter Sanders, edited by Jan C. Schultsz / Albert Jan van den Berg (1982) 41; Sanders, ‘Consolidated Commentary Volumes V and VI’, VI Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration (1981) 206; Eksi, Milletlerarası Deniz Ticareti Alanında “Incorporation” Yoluyla Yapılan Tahkim Anlaşmaları [Arbitration Agreements made through Incorporation by Reference in International Maritime Law] (2004) 156 (as cited in Ibid).

10Ziya Akinci, Milletlerarası Tahkim, (4th edn, Vedat Kitapçılık 2016) 117.

Gary B. Born, International Commercial Arbitration (2nd edn, Kluwer Law International 2014) 690.

Ozge Tosun, ‘Revision au Fond in Turkish Arbitration Practice’ (2015) 33 ASA Bulletin 58.

Born (n 11) 691.

E.g., Tribunal Fédéral, ATF 121 III 38 (at reason 3) (decided 1995) = YCA XXI (1996), 690 (Federal Supreme Court, Switzerland); Handelsgericht Zürich, 89 ZR No. 86 (1990) (at 196) (decided 1989) = YCA XVIII (1993), 442 (Commercial Court Zurich, Switzerland); Haas, supra, n. 7, at 463–464, para. 92; Schlosser, supra, n. 30, at Anhang s. 1061, para. 55; van den Berg, NYC, supra, n. 1, at 185 (as cited in Herbert Kronke, Patricia Nacimiento, et al., Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: A Global Commentary on the New York Convention (Kluwer Law International 2010) 86).

Dietmar Czernich, ‘Chapter I: The Arbitration Agreement and Arbitrability, The Theory of Separability in Austrian Arbitration Law – Is it on Stable Pillars?’ (2017) Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration 50.

Ibid.

Supreme Court Assembly of Civil Chambers, 22 February 2012, Case No. 2011/11-742 Judgment No. 2012/82 available at: https://www.kararara.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=36200 accessed 21 August 2018.