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Regulation On Direct Sales Has Been Published

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Regulation on Direct Sales has been published in the Official Gazette dated August 8, 2025, and numbered 32980 by the Ministry of Commerce.

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Regulation on Direct Sales has been published in the Official Gazette dated August 8, 2025, and numbered 32980 by the Ministry of Commerce.

The Law Amending the Consumer Protection Law and Certain Laws published in the Official Gazette dated October 30, 2024 and numbered 32707, introduced provisions on the direct sales system into the Law No. 6502 on Consumer Protection, stipulating that those provisions would enter into force nine months later. In line with this amendment, the Regulation on Direct Sales ("Regulation"), published in the Official Gazette dated 8 August 2025 and numbered 32980, sets out the rules and procedures governing direct sales.

Direct sales activities were previously regulated under the Regulation on Off-Premises Agreements, published in the Official Gazette dated January 14, 2015, and numbered 29236 ("Regulation on Off-Premises Agreements"). However, with the entry into force of the Regulation and the Regulation Amending the Regulation

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