New Attorneys' Minimum Fee Tariff Published in the Official Gazette: How Is the Attorney's Fee Determined?

The Attorneys' Minimum Fee Tariff, prepared by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, was published as a communiqué in Official Gazette No. 33419 of 3 November 2026. Under its entry-into-force article (Art. 24), it entered into force on the date of publication. This article summarises the general framework from the official text. It is general information, not legal advice. The tariff's amounts are in the annex of the official text and are reproduced in tables in section 6 of this article; consult the official text for the current amounts.

1. What is the tariff for?

• In courts, in all legal assistance, in authority decisions ending a dispute and in determining the attorney's fee imposed on the opposing party by law, Attorneys' Law No. 1136 and this Tariff apply (Art. 1/1).
• If no contractual fee has been agreed or the agreed fee is invalid, a court cannot award a fee below the amount calculated under the tariff (Art. 1/2).
• A fee below the minimum tariff cannot be agreed (Art. 1/3).

2. Which tariff applies?

In determining the fee, the Tariff in force on the date the legal assistance is completed or judgment is given applies (Art. 21). After a decision of reversal or setting aside, too, the Tariff in force on the date of the judgment applies (Art. 2/3). Files decided after the new tariff took effect will therefore be assessed under it.

3. Limit on the fee imposed on the opposing party

The fee imposed by courts on the opposing party for the attorney cannot be less than the amount in the tariff and cannot exceed three times it. The attorney's labour, effort, the importance and nature of the work and the length of the case are considered (Art. 3/1).

4. Key rules

• Case becoming moot, waiver, acceptance and settlement: if the dispute ends before the preliminary examination record is signed, half the tariff fee is awarded; after it, the full fee (Art. 6).
• Lack of jurisdiction or competence, absence of a procedural precondition: before the preliminary examination record, half the fee in certain cases, the full fee afterward; in some referral cases, no fee is awarded (Art. 7).
• Alimony, rent determination and eviction: calculated on one year's rent in eviction cases and on one year's difference or alimony in rent determination and alimony cases; no fee is awarded for the rejected part in alimony cases (Art. 9).
• Non-pecuniary damages: calculated on the amount awarded; if the claim is entirely rejected, the fee under the second part, second section of the tariff applies (Art. 10).
• Enforcement proceedings: if the debtor pays within the payment period, three quarters of the tariff fee is awarded (Art. 11/4); the same rule applies to eviction proceedings (Art. 11/5).
• Objections to consumer arbitration committee decisions: if the decision is annulled, a fee is awarded against the consumer, but not more than the accepted or rejected amount, and not where a document that existed but was not submitted to the committee was submitted to the court (Art. 12).
• Criminal cases: where the victim is represented by counsel and the defendant is convicted or announcement of the judgment is deferred, the fee set for the representative is imposed on the defendant (Art. 14).
• Mediation: tariff provisions form the minimum values of contractual attorney fees; special rules apply where mediation is a precondition to litigation (Art. 16).
• Serial cases: graduated rates apply depending on the number of files (Art. 22).
• Bad-faith or baseless actions: a bad-faith defendant or a claimant with no right may be ordered, besides costs, to pay all or part of the fee agreed with the other side's attorney (Art. 23).

5. What it means for the public

• The losing party is generally ordered to pay the other side's attorney's fee, calculated under the tariff.
• If a settlement is reached, its timing (before or after the preliminary examination record) may affect the fee.
• A fee agreement with a lawyer cannot go below the tariff.
• An attorney's fee is set in a written contract between lawyer and client. This article is not a fee quote; our office's fees are determined separately by written contract.

6. Tariff amounts (tables)

The tables below are transcribed from the annex published in the Official Gazette (3 November 2026, No. 33419). The amounts are the minimum amounts set by the tariff; they are not any law firm's fee quote. The tariff has three calculation methods: legal assistance outside litigation, fixed-fee matters, and monetary claims.

Part One – Section One: Legal assistance outside litigation

Service	Amount
Oral consultation at the office (up to one hour)	TRY 5,500.00
Oral consultation at the office – each following hour	TRY 2,400.00
Oral consultation at a location on request (up to one hour)	TRY 9,000.00
Oral consultation at a location on request – each following hour	TRY 4,500.00
Written consultation (up to one hour)	TRY 9,000.00
Written consultation – each following hour	TRY 4,500.00
Drafting any petition, notice, warning letter or protest	TRY 7,500.00
Lease agreement and similar	TRY 10,000.00
Charters, regulations, inheritance contracts, wills, foundation deeds and similar	TRY 40,000.00
Articles of association, company transfers and mergers and similar commercial contracts	TRY 27,000.00
Counsel for each party where mediation ends without agreement	TRY 10,000.00

Part One – Section Two: Follow-up of administrative matters

Service	Amount
Obtaining documentation, collecting a payment at the payment stage, or obtaining a copy of a document	TRY 7,500.00
Matters aimed at creating, establishing, registering, transferring, amending, terminating or protecting a right	TRY 15,000.00
Each legal service to banks, financial institutions and similar under a continuing contract for mortgage creation or release	TRY 4,000.00
Signing of company incorporation documents for corporate merchants, obtaining or transferring licences, and acceptance to Turkish citizenship	TRY 78,000.00
Matters before tax commissions	TRY 30,000.00
Matters before international courts – without hearing	TRY 140,000.00
Matters before international courts – with hearing	TRY 250,000.00
International courts, monetary claims	Determined under Part Three
Consumer arbitration committees and produce market arbitration committees (where the fee under Part Three is below the fixed fee, not to exceed the underlying claim)	TRY 9,000.00

Part One – Sections Three and Four: Monthly fees of contracted lawyers

Item	Monthly amount
Contracted lawyer required under Law No. 1136 Art. 35 – housing cooperatives	TRY 35,000.00
Contracted lawyer required under Law No. 1136 Art. 35 – joint-stock companies	TRY 58,000.00
Monthly fee payable by private persons and legal entities to their contracted lawyers	TRY 43,000.00
Monthly fee payable by public bodies to their contracted lawyers	TRY 43,000.00

If the fee calculated under the tariff for the matters handled exceeds the annual fee, the difference is paid to the lawyer separately.

Part Two – Section One: Fixed-fee matters, even if the subject is monetary

Matter	Amount
Precautionary attachment, injunction, evidence preservation, stay of enforcement, determination of place of payment/deposit (outside a pending case) – without hearing	TRY 13,000.00
Same matters – with hearing	TRY 16,000.00
Follow-up at the sales office for dissolving co-ownership	TRY 25,000.00
Dissolution of co-ownership and partition cases	TRY 52,000.00
Cases and matters before tax courts – without hearing	TRY 40,000.00
Cases and matters before tax courts – with hearing	TRY 52,000.00
Consumer court cases for adjusting loan instalments or interest	TRY 26,000.00

Part Two – Section Two: Matters without a monetary subject

Matter	Amount
Proceedings at enforcement offices	TRY 12,500.00
Matters before enforcement courts	TRY 15,000.00
Cases and matters with hearings before enforcement courts	TRY 23,000.00
Enforcement proceedings for eviction	TRY 26,000.00
Criminal matters before enforcement courts	TRY 20,000.00
Matters arising from opposition to judgments on child delivery and personal contact	TRY 21,000.00
Matters in the criminal investigation phase	TRY 15,000.00
Civil courts of peace	TRY 40,000.00
Criminal judgeships of peace and enforcement judgeships	TRY 23,000.00
Courts of first instance (asliye)	TRY 62,000.00
Consumer courts	TRY 30,000.00
Intellectual and industrial property courts	TRY 70,000.00
High criminal courts	TRY 86,000.00
Juvenile courts	TRY 62,000.00
Juvenile high criminal courts	TRY 86,000.00
Disciplinary boards under the Military Service Law	TRY 34,000.00
Administrative and tax courts – without hearing	TRY 40,000.00
Administrative and tax courts – with hearing	TRY 52,000.00
Regional courts – cases heard at first instance	TRY 45,000.00
Regional courts – appeal with a single hearing	TRY 28,000.00
Regional courts – appeal with more than one hearing or other steps such as site inspection requiring the lawyer	TRY 55,000.00
Court of Accounts – account trials, without hearing	TRY 44,000.00
Court of Accounts – account trials, with hearing	TRY 84,000.00
Court of Cassation – cases heard at first instance	TRY 85,000.00
Council of State – first instance, without hearing	TRY 50,000.00
Council of State – first instance, with hearing	TRY 80,000.00
Hearing of appeals before the Court of Cassation, Council of State and Court of Accounts	TRY 50,000.00
Court of Jurisdictional Disputes	TRY 50,000.00
Constitutional Court – cases heard as the High Court	TRY 150,000.00
Constitutional Court – individual application, without hearing	TRY 55,000.00
Constitutional Court – individual application, with hearing	TRY 100,000.00
Constitutional Court – other cases and matters	TRY 115,000.00

Part Three: Monetary claims

The fee is calculated by applying the rates below to successive brackets of the claim value:

Claim value bracket	Rate
First TRY 800,000.00	16%
Next TRY 800,000.00	15%
Next TRY 1,600,000.00	14%
Next TRY 1,600,000.00	13%
Next TRY 2,400,000.00	11%
Next TRY 3,200,000.00	8%
Next TRY 4,000,000.00	5%
Next TRY 4,800,000.00	3%
Next TRY 5,600,000.00	2%
Above TRY 24,800,000.00	1%

Note: The tables are transcribed from the Official Gazette annex for information; in practice the articles of the tariff (reductions, increases, the three-times cap, etc.) must be read together. The currently effective official text prevails. These amounts are not our office's fee quote; our fees are determined separately by written contract.

7. Official text

The full text is available on the Official Gazette page of 3 November 2026 (No. 33419). To assess how the attorney's fee applies in your file, you can create an appointment or reach us via the contact page.

This article is for general information only and is not legal advice. The current text of the tariff and its annexes should be checked separately in the Official Gazette.