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October 2007

Intern lawyers will be able to work abroad

The Turkish State Council has given a decision on 06.04.2007, enabling the Turkish intern lawyers to complete a certain period of their internship in service of a lawyer. At the decree of 8th Chamber of the State Council, it is stated that, a certain Turkish intern started his internship practices under Istanbul Bar Association, after completing his six monthly court house practice, he started his second six months of internship in the service of a lawyer and in the meantime, according to the protocole concluded between the Istanbul Bar Association and the Frankfurt Bar Association, he took the acceptance of the Turkish lawyer to whom he served and had 2 months of internship services with a lawyer registered to the Frankfurt Bar Association, then he returned to Turkey and applied for the attorneyship license to the Bar, considering this two monthly period to be included in the second six monthly internship practice period. In case of the refusal of the mentioned intern's license application by the Ministry of Justice, claiming that the period spent abroad cannot be assumed to be included by the second six monthly term, the Turkish Union of Bar Associations standed pat for its previous decision. The administrative court reversed the Istanbul Bar Association's decision to give the license. Turkish Union of Bar Associations appealled this reversing decree. According to the Turkish Supreme Court's judgment, the most important point is experiencing a quality training and conducting the works and operations which enable acquisition of professional formation, improving the legal know-how and information and accordingly, creating a chance by challenging all legal and educational opportunities. It is evident that, these can only be possible if the Bar plans the contents and quality of the internship in accordance with the modern day's conditions and requirements. In this case, since the intern's two monthly abroad internship practice in service of an experienced lawyer was duly completed upon the purpose and the procedure provided by the Law on Attorneyship and Bylaw on Internship, this term should be assumed to be covered by the internship period.

No Letter "W" in Turkish Alphabet

Turkish Supreme Court's Chamber No. 18 has reversed the first instance court's decision to accept the claim from a person with dual citizenship of Turkish and British nationalities, about the correction "Vendi Filiz" name as "Wendy Phyllis." At the case at hand, the plaintiff having British name of "Wendy Phyllis" has become a Turkish citizen in 1999 and her name was recorded to the indentity registers as "Vendi Filiz," which happen to be her name's Turkish pronounciation. However, the plaintiff expressed that this record has been causing complications and delays in official transactions; so she claimed the correction of her name in Turkish registers, as its "Wendy Phyllis" original in English. The first instance court accepted her claim, but the Turkish Supreme Court has reversed the court's judgment. According to the Turkish Supreme Court's 18th Civil Chamber's decision # 2006/1153 E., 2006/1822 K., it is provided that, upon the Law on Acceptance and Implementation of Turkish Alphabet # 1353, enacted in 03.11.1928, the plaintiff's name and surname should be recorded to the identity register as its Turkish pronounciation and the letter "W" present at the plaintiff's British name is not included in the schedule designated by the Article 1 of mentioned Law.

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