The Minimum Legal Fee Tariff (Avukatlık Asgari Ücret Tarifesi, AAÜT) is the tariff, prepared each year by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations and published in the Official Gazette, that shows the lowest amounts of legal fees. The tariff in force was published in the Official Gazette of 4 November 2025, No. 33067 and entered into force on the same day. The amounts in this article belong to the tariff in force as of 8 October 2026. Since under Article 168 of the Attorneyship Law the tariff is prepared anew each year, the tables below will become outdated once the new tariff is published in the Official Gazette.
What is the tariff for? #
- Lower limit of the contractual fee: An attorney’s fee below the tariff cannot be agreed (Attorneyship Law Art. 164; AAÜT Art. 1/3). The parties may freely agree on a fee above the tariff.
- Attorney’s fee charged to the other party: The fee that the court orders the other party to pay in favour of the lawyer of the winning party cannot be less than the amount in the tariff or more than three times that amount (AAÜT Art. 3). This fee is separate from the fee the client has agreed with their own lawyer.
- Which year’s tariff? In assessing the fee, the tariff in force on the date the legal assistance is completed or the judgment is given at the end of the case is taken as the basis (Attorneyship Law Art. 168).
Work outside litigation and enforcement proceedings #
| Work | Amount in the tariff |
|---|---|
| Oral consultation at the office (up to the first hour) | 4.000,00 TL |
| — each following hour | 1.800,00 TL |
| Oral consultation at a place visited on request (up to the first hour) | 7.000,00 TL |
| Written consultation (up to the first hour) | 7.000,00 TL |
| Drafting a petition, notice, warning notice or protest | 6.000,00 TL |
| Lease agreement and similar | 8.000,00 TL |
| Articles of association, regulations, inheritance contract, will, foundation deed | 32.000,00 TL |
| Company articles of association, transfer and merger agreements | 21.000,00 TL |
| For the parties’ lawyers where mediation ends without agreement | 8.000,00 TL |
Fixed amounts by court and enforcement office #
In matters whose subject is not money or cannot be valued in money, the fixed amounts in the second section of the second part of the tariff apply:
| Forum | Amount in the tariff |
|---|---|
| Proceedings conducted at enforcement offices | 9.000,00 TL |
| Matters handled at enforcement courts | 11.000,00 TL |
| Cases and matters with hearings at enforcement courts | 18.000,00 TL |
| Enforcement proceedings for eviction | 20.000,00 TL |
| Matters handled at the criminal investigation stage | 11.000,00 TL |
| Civil courts of peace | 30.000,00 TL |
| Criminal judgeships of peace and enforcement judgeships | 18.000,00 TL |
| Courts of first instance | 45.000,00 TL |
| Consumer courts | 22.500,00 TL |
| Intellectual and industrial property rights courts | 55.000,00 TL |
| Assize courts and juvenile assize courts | 65.000,00 TL |
| Juvenile courts | 45.000,00 TL |
| Administrative and tax courts (without hearing / with hearing) | 30.000,00 / 40.000,00 TL |
| Appeals (istinaf) before regional courts of appeal and regional administrative courts (one hearing / more than one hearing or site inspection) | 22.000,00 / 42.000,00 TL |
| Appeal hearing before the Court of Cassation, the Council of State and the Court of Accounts | 40.000,00 TL |
| Individual application to the Constitutional Court (without hearing / with hearing) | 40.000,00 / 80.000,00 TL |
Since family courts are established at the level of courts of first instance under Article 2 of Law No. 4787, the amount provided for courts of first instance applies in divorce, maintenance and custody cases. The tariff also provides a separate fixed amount of 40.000,00 TL for partition and division cases.
Matters whose subject is money: proportional fee brackets #
If the subject of the case or proceedings is money or can be valued in money, the fee is calculated according to the brackets in the third part of the tariff; however, it cannot fall below the fixed amount provided for the court hearing the case (AAÜT Art. 13).
| Bracket | Rate |
|---|---|
| First 600.000 TL | %16 |
| Next 600.000 TL | %15 |
| Next 1.200.000 TL | %14 |
| Next 1.200.000 TL | %13 |
| Next 1.800.000 TL | %11 |
| Next 2.400.000 TL | %8 |
| Next 3.000.000 TL | %5 |
| Next 3.600.000 TL | %3 |
| Next 4.200.000 TL | %2 |
| Above 18.600.000 TL | %1 |
There is a special rule for enforcement proceedings: in proceedings with an amount of up to 56.250 TL, the fee is the fixed amount of 9.000 TL and cannot exceed the principal receivable; if the debtor pays within the payment period, three quarters of the fee determined is awarded (AAÜT Art. 11).
Amendments made in 2026 #
- Official Gazette of 8 January 2026, No. 33131: Art. 10/2, which limited the fee to be awarded to the other party’s lawyer in case of partial dismissal in non-pecuniary damages cases, was repealed.
- Official Gazette of 28 March 2026, No. 33207: Art. 14/5 on the fee in applications to criminal judgeships of peace such as right of reply, content removal and objection to an administrative fine was redrafted; if the administrative fine is below the fixed fee, a fee equal to the amount of the fine is awarded.
The fixed amounts and proportional brackets above are not affected by these amendments.
Istanbul Bar Association 2026 recommended minimum fee schedule #
Separately from the AAÜT, bar associations may publish recommended schedules for their members. The Istanbul Bar Association’s 2026 schedule was adopted by decision No. 115/19 of the Bar Board of Directors dated 08.12.2025 and covers the period 01.01.2026–31.12.2026. This schedule is not binding; the attorney’s fee to be awarded by the court and the statutory lower limit of the contractual fee are the AAÜT amounts above. Some items from the schedule:
| Work | Amount in the schedule |
|---|---|
| Oral consultation at the office (first hour / each additional hour) | 14.500 / 9.500 TL |
| Written consultation | 29.000 TL |
| Uncontested divorce case | 108.750 TL |
| Contested divorce case | 188.500 TL |
| Defence of the accused before a criminal court of first instance | 175.000 TL |
| Defence of the accused before an assize court | 300.000 TL |
Other bar associations in Istanbul may publish their own schedules. The full schedule is in the PDF document on the bar’s website.
Costs not included in the tariff #
The amounts in the tariff are the consideration for legal services; court fees, cost advances, expert and service costs are paid separately. For the court fee and cost items in a divorce case, see our article on divorce case costs and legal fees, and for those without the means to pay, our article on applying for legal aid in Istanbul.
Statutory limits on fee agreements #
- A percentage fee may be agreed, not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the value of the case or of the amount to be awarded (Attorneyship Law Art. 164/2).
- If there is no written fee agreement or the fee is disputed, in matters whose value can be measured in money a fee of between ten and twenty per cent of the part of the case won is determined, not below the tariff (Attorneyship Law Art. 164/4).
- In long-running files, stating clearly in the agreement which year’s tariff will be taken as the basis prevents disputes that may arise later.
