Under the Attorney’s Law, the Union of Turkish Bar Associations is “an organization constituted from all the Bar Associations” in Turkey, and is a “non profit making legal entity in the form of a public professional organization”.

In addition to its mission to develop the legal profession, The Union of Turkish Bar Associations is also charged with strengthening and protecting the concepts of the rule of law and human rights.

Illustrations of the duties of the Union in developing the profession include:

Maintaining  the development of the legal profession and cooperation among bar associations,
Protecting and safeguarding the interests of lawyers and maintaining the ethics, principles, rules and traditional values of the profession,
Strengthening professional solidarity,
Make applications concerning bar associations before the relevant authorities and bodies,
Taking all kinds of measures to encourage and ensure the professional development of lawyers,
Making efforts in the realization and utilization of rights conferred upon lawyers and enabling lawyers to fulfil the duties conferred upon them by laws,
Defining and setting up recommendations and mandatory professional rules,
Registering attorneys, those who work with them in the same office and partner attorneys properly according to the regulations;
Preparing the main contract articles of legal partnerships;
Organising and printing licence documents, identity documents and documents of authorization for legal partnerships.
Encouraging professional solidarity and continuity through a variety of activities
Taking every opportunity to protect the legal profession and its members from transgressions of their rights

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