Looking for a lawyer in Zeytinburnu?

We provide clients who reach us from Zeytinburnu and the surrounding area with legal advice and litigation across Istanbul from our office in Bakırköy. About 10 minutes to Bakırköy by Marmaray and the tram.

Urban regeneration and the leather and textile industry put property and employment files side by side.

What do we handle in Zeytinburnu?

Employment and social security, compensation, enforcement, family and divorce law are the headings that stand out in our Zeytinburnu files. We take files in other areas of law as well; which court has jurisdiction becomes clear at the first meeting, according to the nature of the dispute.

Main neighbourhoods

We take files from across the district; the neighbourhoods we work in most are Merkezefendi, Telsiz, Sümer, Kazlıçeşme, Veliefendi.

How does the meeting work?

Because you are close to our office, most of our clients here prefer the first meeting in person; handing over documents and signing can also be completed in a single visit. If you prefer, the meeting can be held by video.

Regeneration and the leather and textile industry together

The urban regeneration along the Kazlıçeşme and Merkezefendi corridor and the leather and textile businesses around Telsiz and Sümer split Zeytinburnu files in two. Being ten minutes from our office makes same-day action possible where time limits are involved.

On the regeneration side the period for objecting to a risk determination is fifteen days, and the majority needed for a decision to rebuild is two thirds by share. The share of an owner who does not join the decision can be put up for sale at market value; the period for challenging the valuation is short. An action to correct the land share must be brought before the regeneration begins, as correcting it afterwards is far harder.

On the industrial side, occupational disease files arising from chemical exposure are seen in the leather and textile businesses; in those files time runs from the date the disease is established by the social security institution, and the right to claim can survive even after the employment has ended.

Where the two areas meet, the eviction and compensation claims of business tenants in buildings entering regeneration form a heading of their own.

A practical note: A business tenant in a building entering regeneration may claim compensation for the remaining term under the contract with the owner. But if the contract says "the contract ends automatically on demolition", that claim is weakened; the text of the contract should be read from the outset.

Which courthouse will your case be heard in?

Disputes within the boundaries of Zeytinburnu are heard at the Bakırköy Courthouse — the courthouse in the district where our office is. That site brings together the civil courts of first instance, commercial, family, labour, civil courts of peace, consumer, criminal courts of first instance and serious crime courts along with the enforcement offices.

Our proximity to the courthouse makes a difference where time limits are involved: applications for interim injunctions and attachment can be lodged the same day. Administrative disputes are heard in the Istanbul administrative and tax courts.