In Turkish system Intellectual property and industrial property are regulated in different legal texts. The decree laws regulating patent/trademark/industrial designs… etc have almost same legal language and approach. Intellectual property rights are regulated in a completely independent law and the only common point for enforcing these rights is that they are all in competence of the same type of courts.

In Turkish system there is no registration system for copyrights but the right holder is expected to prove that he/she is the real proprietor of the said rights.

Protection periods are different than industrial property rights (lifetime and 70 years after the death)

In intellectual property law, there are moral and material rights which we have a track of this moral right in patent and industrial designs law ( to have the right of to be mentioned as designer or inventor).

In the recent years the vocational associations had more power on the legislative power and there has been some amendments in the laws in favour of producers, performers and neighboring right holders. But still a huge problem of Internet piracy is waiting to be solved.