Turkey legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 603,610+ Turkish laws, regulations, court decisions and regulatory materials from Turkish government, judicial and regulatory institutions across 7 official portals. Search Turkish legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
603,610+
Turkey legal records
7
official Turkish source portals
323,724
issuing authorities
Daily
updates
SEE IT ANSWER
Which Turkish court has final authority to resolve jurisdiction disputes between the judicial and administrative courts?
The Uyuşmazlık Mahkemesi (Court of Jurisdictional Disputes), the independent high court established under the Turkish Constitution to resolve jurisdiction and judgment conflicts between the judicial and administrative branches. Lawstronaut carries its rulings — for example, decision E. 2022/70, K. 2022/324 (30 May 2022), rejecting a jurisdiction referral for failing the conditions of Article 19 of Law No. 2247.
Source: Uyuşmazlık Mahkemesi Başkanlığı — kararlar.uyusmazlik.gov.tr/Uploads/2022-70.pdf
Retrieved: 2026-05-27 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Turkish sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Turkish legal materials from official government, judicial, and regulatory sources. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: the national legislation information system · the Court of Cassation (Yargıtay) · the Council of State (Danıştay) · the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes · the national judiciary informatics system (UYAP) · the Presidency · professional bodies
- Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi — Legislation Information System (mevzuat.gov.tr)
- Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Yargıtay Başkanlığı — Court of Cassation (yargitay.gov.tr)
- Turkey Council of State — Danıştay (danistay.gov.tr)
- Court of Jurisdictional Disputes — Uyuşmazlık Mahkemesi (uyusmazlik.gov.tr)
- UYAP Bilişim Sistemi — National Judiciary Informatics System (emsal.uyap.gov.tr)
- Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye (tccb.gov.tr)
- Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects — TMMOB (tmmob.org.tr)
Turkish legal source types covered
Turkish legal coverage includes primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Kanunlar (laws and codes), Cumhurbaşkanlığı kararnameleri (presidential decrees), yönetmelikler (regulations), and tebliğler (communiqués), taken directly from the Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr), the official consolidated legislation database.
Legislative History
Consolidated and amended texts of laws and regulations from the Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi, with amendment records where available, each tied to its official source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Policy documents and announcements from the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, and professional-body guidance and materials from bodies such as the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB), where available.
Case Law
Court decisions from official Turkish sources, including the Court of Cassation (Yargıtay), the Council of State (Danıştay), and the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes (Uyuşmazlık Mahkemesi), alongside first-instance and appellate decisions accessed through the UYAP national judiciary system, where available.
One Turkish legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Turkish laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=TR&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Turkish legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Turkish materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Turkish legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Turkish legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Turkish legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Turkish legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Turkish law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Turkish sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Turkish legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Turkish legal research
Turkish legal information is spread across the Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi statute database, the Court of Cassation, the Council of State, the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes, the UYAP national judiciary system, the Presidency, and professional bodies. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Turkey legal coverage
Turkey is a civil-law jurisdiction whose codes draw on the continental European tradition, with core statutes such as the Turkish Civil Code, the Code of Obligations, and the Turkish Penal Code. Consolidated legislation is published in the Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr), the official legislation database, and new instruments are promulgated through the Resmî Gazete (Official Gazette). Case law comes from the Court of Cassation (Yargıtay) for civil and criminal matters, the Council of State (Danıştay) for administrative matters, and the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes (Uyuşmazlık Mahkemesi) for conflicts between the two branches, accessed through the UYAP national judiciary informatics system. Records are published in Turkish.
Turkish law moves quickly. Since the 2017 constitutional amendments and the move to a presidential system, primary rules are increasingly issued as Cumhurbaşkanlığı kararnameleri (presidential decrees), and codes and regulations are amended frequently. Point-in-time data straight from the official source — the consolidated text in the Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi and the decision as published by the court — is what keeps a Turkish legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Turkish legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Turkish regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Turkish legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Turkish legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
Frequently asked questions
Related jurisdictions
Greece
Europe
View jurisdiction →
Bulgaria
Europe
View jurisdiction →
Cyprus
Europe
View jurisdiction →
Georgia
Europe
View jurisdiction →
Related products: Lawstronaut API · Lawstronaut MCP · Legal AI agents · Pricing
Start building with Turkish legal data today
Connect your AI to Turkey's legislation, regulations, and case law through MCP or the API.