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2025 Tariffs For Expert Witness Minimum Fee, Mediation Minimum Fee And Sales Expenses Published

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The Expert Witness Minimum Fee Tariff, Mediation Minimum Fee Tariff, and Sales Expenses Tariff were published in the Official Gazette dated December 25, 2024, and numbered 32763, to become

TurkeyLitigation, Mediation & Arbitration
Can Kaleli
Can Kaleli
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Berna Uygun
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The Expert Witness Minimum Fee Tariff, Mediation Minimum Fee Tariff, and Sales Expenses Tariff were published in the Official Gazette dated December 25, 2024, and numbered 32763, to become effective as of the first day of 2025.

Below, you can find the details of the changes introduced in these tariffs.

A. Expert Witness Minimum Fee Tariff

With the 2025 Expert Witness Minimum Fee Tariff ("Tariff"), changes have been made to the amounts of fees and expenses to be paid to expert witnesses, effective from January 1, 2025.

You can access the full Turkish text of the Tariff here.

The fees payable to individuals as expert witnesses under the old tariff that came into effect on January 1, 2024, and the Tariff effective as of January 1, 2025, are comparatively presented below. According to the Tariff, the fees are:

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