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- Q2/2009 Introduction
- Q2/2009 Transfer of ownership in financial leasing contracts
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- Q2/2009 New public finance aid plans
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- Q2/2009 Credit card interest rates reduced
- Q2/2009 New interest rates for rediscount transactions and advance payments
- Q1/2009 Introduction
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- Q4/2009 Minimum maturity limit abolished
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- Q1/2009 National Assembly approves Kyoto
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- Q3/2009 Draft Law on the Amendments to the Competition Protection Law
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- Q4/2009 New double-taxation treaties
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- Q4/2009 Termination of the legal personality of commercial partnerships
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- Q3/2009 Draft Law of Obligations - update
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- Q1/2009 Disciplinary imprisonment cancelled for non-declaration of assets
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- Q4/2009 Impact of new Cheque Law on banks and their employees
- Q4/2009 - Introduction
- Q3/2009 New conditions for providing securities, pledges and mortgages
- Q3/2009 BRSB discretion over minimum repayment amounts for credit cards
- Q3/2009 New payment scheme for indebted card holders
- Q3/2009 Financing companies may now issue foreign currency loans
- Q3/2009 Treasury funding for credit guarantee institutions
- Q3/2009 State aid for investments in the acquisition of equipment and machinery
- Q2/2009 Introduction
- Q2/2009 Transfer of ownership in financial leasing contracts
- Q2/2009 Debt solutions for customers of financial lease, factoring and financing companies
- Q2/2009 New public finance aid plans
- Q2/2009 Foreign currency loans and foreign currency indexed loans to Turkish natural person and legal entities
- Q2/2009 Credit card interest rates reduced
- Q2/2009 New interest rates for rediscount transactions and advance payments
- Q1/2009 Introduction
- Q1/2009 New provisions for loans & borrowers
- Q1/2009 Turkish banks off-shore
- Q1/2009 Foreign currency liquidity calculations
- Q1/2009 Required reserve ratio decreased
- Q1/2009 RUSF reduced to 10%
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- Cash pooling in Turkey - an end to prohibition
- Law of accelerating returns
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- The Real Estate Survey: Part IV Issues Related to Commercial Leasing
- Taxation of Cross-border Dividends - Turkey-Netherlands
- The Bank Finance and Regulation Survey on Security over Collateral
- A Guide to Employment in Eurasia & The Middle East
- The young Turks - Turkish legal market
- Labour Newsletter March 2009 Hiring Employees
- Turkey: Elections Spur Actions
- Turkey country overview 2009
- Turkey: Built for change
- Asset-backed securitisation in Turkey
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- The end of volatility is nigh
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- Turkish banking system: The fight against laundering crime money and financing terrorism
- Financial markets in Turkey: Building trust in an open market
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