I. Introduction
Law No. 7589 on Amendments to Certain Laws for the Effective and Efficient Functioning of the Judiciary, published in the Official Gazette dated 31 July 2026 and numbered 33326, amended various rules ranging from enforcement and administrative jurisdiction to criminal and civil procedure. Its selected provisions introduce new rules on the sale of immovable property acquired by inheritance, administrative cases to be heard by a single judge, statutory interest, participation in fraud, molecular genetic examination data, deferment of the announcement of the judgment, interest on compensation, actions for unquantified and partial claims, and hearing procedure.
Under Article 26 of the Law, the amendment concerning handwritten signatures in remote civil hearings enters into force on 31 October 2026, while the remaining selected amendments entered into force on 31 July 2026. Provisional Article 1 nevertheless prescribes different transitional criteria for certain
