Introduction of Turkish Commercial Law

“Commercial law” can be defined as the legal systems and norms that are applicable to commercial relations. Traders are subject to commercial law and commercial law, which was “developed as a distinct body of jurisprudence with the beginning of large-scale trade, and many of its rules are derived from the practices of traders.”” The issues of commercial law mostly come from the sale of goods or services, contracts, credits, companies, “natural person” traders, banks, unfair competition, commercial cases, agencies, trade registries, trade names, trademarks, and commercial papers. Although commercial law is concerned with many topics, for our purposes the issues considered to be related to the concept of commercial law will be those related to commerce and traders.

There are various branches of commercial law. According to its subject, commercial law can be divided into groups such as law on enterprises, commercial company law, insurance law, law of commercial papers, banking law, law of carriage of goods, maritime law, or international commercial law, among others.