Eviction Of Tenants Under Turkish Law

The removal of the tenant from the leased real estate for any reason by legal methods is called eviction of the tenant. The main provisions regarding the eviction of the tenant are regulated in Articles 347 and the following articles of the Turkish Code of Obligations No. 6098 which is published in the Official Gazette with number 27836, dated February 4, 2011. It should be noted that the tenant may be evicted only for the reasons outlined in the law. If the lessor does not have a valid reason, the tenant cannot be evicted from the property for the duration of the lease agreement. However, it is possible to evict the tenant and terminate the lease agreement if the lessor has a just cause even though the contract period has not expired. The eviction of the tenant can be carried out in two different ways: eviction by notice and eviction by lawsuit. With the Law on the Amendment of the Execution and Bankruptcy Law and Certain Laws published in the Gazette dated April 5,