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Terms of use for this website

Last updated 6 September 2026

This website belongs to Hilal Bıçak Köseleci, a lawyer registered with the Bursa Bar Association. Under the Turkish Attorneyship Act No. 1136 and the Advertising Ban Regulation of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, a lawyer's website may inform but may not solicit. Everything here is written in that spirit: it tells you what we work on. It does not offer, promise or advertise.

Who runs this site

Name

Hilal Bıçak Köseleci, Attorney at Law

Practice

Bıçak Köseleci Law & Consultancy

Bar

Bursa Bar Association, registration no. [to be filled]

Address

[office address], Bursa, Türkiye

Email

hilal@hbklegal.co

Phone

[phone]

Domain

hbklegal.co

This is information, not advice

The texts on this site describe areas of law in general terms. They are not legal advice, a legal opinion, or a recommendation for your situation. No two files are alike, and the answer that fits one usually does not fit the next. Please do not act on anything you read here without getting advice on your own facts first.

No lawyer–client relationship

Reading this site, filling in the contact form or sending an email does not make us your lawyer. That relationship begins only when a written engagement is signed by both sides.

Until it is signed, information you send us may fall outside the professional secrecy protection of Article 36 of the Attorneyship Act. So please keep the first message general — tell us the shape of the matter, not its confidential details. There is time for those once we are formally instructed.

Content ages

Legislation changes, courts change their minds, and practice moves with them. Everything here reflects the law as we understood it on the date of publication. We make a reasonable effort to keep it current; we cannot guarantee that we have.

The Official Gazette digest

The Official Gazette items listed under Insights are collected automatically from texts published at resmigazete.gov.tr and, where an English line appears, rendered by machine translation for convenience. The selection is ours, the translation is unofficial, and both can be wrong or incomplete. Nothing in the digest is binding. The binding text is always the Turkish original as published in the Official Gazette.

Liability

We accept no liability for direct or indirect loss arising from the use of this site or reliance on its content. We do not warrant that the site will be available without interruption or free of error.

Intellectual property

Unless stated otherwise, the texts, design, logo and the HBK wordmark on this site belong to the practice and are protected under Act No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works. Short quotations with attribution are fine. Beyond that, nothing here may be copied, republished or used commercially without written permission.

The video and photography on this site are used under the licence terms of Pexels and Unsplash. Rights in those files remain with their creators and providers, and the credit line in the footer names the specific works.

Links to other sites

Where we link to a third party, we do so because the material seemed useful on the day we linked it. What those sites contain, how they handle your data and whether they are secure is their responsibility, not ours.

Status under Act No. 5651

For the purposes of Act No. 5651 on the regulation of internet publications, the operator of this site is a content provider and is responsible only for content it produces itself.

Governing law

Turkish law governs this notice and any dispute arising from the use of this site. The courts and enforcement offices of Bursa have jurisdiction.

Corrections and takedown

If something here is wrong, out of date, or infringes your rights, write to hilal@hbklegal.co and we will look at it.

What this site stores, and what it doesn't

Last updated 6 September 2026

Cookies

A cookie is a small file a website writes into your browser and reads back on later visits. This site writes none — not its own, and none on behalf of an advertiser or analytics network.

Three entries in your browser's local storage

Local storage is a separate space your browser keeps for a site. Unlike a cookie it is never sent to a server; it stays on your device until you clear it. We use three entries, and none of them identifies you:

All three persist until you delete them. You can clear them at any time from your browser's settings, under site data or storage. Clearing them breaks nothing — the page simply picks a fresh video.

Visit statistics

We use Plausible Analytics to see whether anyone is reading. Plausible sets no cookies, builds no device fingerprint, stores no personal data and processes everything inside the European Union. What we see are aggregate counts: how many visits, which page, which country, which kind of device, which site sent you. We cannot single you out and we cannot follow you to another site.

Requests your browser makes to display the page

Opening this page makes your browser fetch files from a few providers. As with any request on the internet, your IP address and browser details reach the provider serving the file:

• Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com) — the typefaces
• Pexels (videos.pexels.com, images.pexels.com) — the opening video and imagery
• Unsplash (images.unsplash.com) — photography
• OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org, tile.openstreetmap.org) — the map in the footer. It sets no cookies. The map loads only when the footer comes into view.
• Plausible (plausible.io) — the statistics script described above

Each of these providers applies its own privacy policy to that request.

Server logs

The provider hosting this site may keep standard access logs — IP address, date and time, the address requested, browser details — for security and fault tracing. These are not used for marketing and are not combined with anything else.

Why there is no consent banner

Under Article 51 of Electronic Communications Act No. 5809 and the Turkish Data Protection Authority's guidance on cookie practices, explicit consent is required for cookies that are not strictly necessary — marketing, profiling, third-party tracking. This site uses none of those, so there is nothing to ask you to consent to. If that ever changes, this page changes with it and you will be asked properly.

Controlling this yourself

Every modern browser lets you block storage per site, clear it, or discard it automatically when you close the window; the controls sit under Settings, then Privacy. Browsing in a private window means nothing survives the session at all.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Questions go to hilal@hbklegal.co.

How we handle your personal data

Last updated 6 September 2026 · Prepared under Article 10 of Act No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data

Data controller

Hilal Bıçak Köseleci, Attorney at Law — Bıçak Köseleci Law & Consultancy, [office address], Bursa, Türkiye. Contact: hilal@hbklegal.co

What we process, and how it reaches us

• Through the contact form: your name, email address, the subject you selected and the message you wrote — delivered to us as an ordinary email, sent by you, as described above.
• By email or telephone: whatever you choose to tell us directly.
• Visit statistics: aggregate and anonymous, never linked to you. See the cookie policy.

Why we process it

To read and answer your enquiry, to hold the conversations that precede a possible engagement, to check for conflicts of interest before taking a file, and to meet obligations the law places on a lawyer.

Legal grounds

Article 5(2)(c) of the Act — processing directly related to the formation or performance of a contract; Article 5(2)(ç) — compliance with a legal obligation; Article 5(2)(f) — legitimate interests, provided your fundamental rights are not harmed; and, for the consent box on the form, your explicit consent under Article 5(1).

Transfers

Your message sits in our email account, hosted by [email provider]. If that provider's servers are outside Türkiye, the transfer takes place within the framework of Article 9 of the Act. Beyond that we transfer nothing: your data is not sold, not shared with third parties for their own purposes, and never used for marketing.

How long we keep it

If no engagement follows, we keep the correspondence for [retention period] and then delete it. If an engagement does follow, the retention periods in the Attorneyship Act and related legislation apply — including the three-year obligation in Article 39 to keep documents entrusted to us after a matter closes.

Professional secrecy

Once we act for you, Article 36 of the Attorneyship Act binds us to secrecy, and that duty outlives the engagement. Before an engagement is signed, that protection may not yet apply in full — so please keep the first message general and save the confidential detail for after we are instructed.

Your rights

Article 11 of the Act gives you the right to learn whether your personal data is processed and to request information about it; to learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used accordingly; to know the third parties to whom it is transferred, at home or abroad; to have incomplete or incorrect data corrected, and the correction notified to those third parties; to request erasure or destruction where the grounds for processing have disappeared; to object to a result produced solely by automated analysis; and to claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing.

How to exercise them

Write to us using the method set out in the Communiqué on the Procedures and Principles of Application to the Data Controller: in writing to the address above, or by email from an address already registered with us, to hilal@hbklegal.co. Say clearly who you are and what you are asking for. We answer within thirty days at the latest and free of charge, unless the request requires a cost, in which case the tariff set by the Authority applies.

No marketing messages

We do not run a newsletter and we do not send commercial electronic messages within the meaning of Act No. 6563. Writing to us does not put you on any list.

Changes

If this notice changes, the date at the top changes with it.