229 CIVIL PROCEDURE LAW The Consequences of Not Specifying the Reasons for Appeal in a Petition of Appeal to The Regional Courts of Appeal* Abdullah Bozdaş Introduction The possibility of appellate review of questions of fact, as well as of law, was introduced into Turkish law with an amendment made in the abrogated Civil Procedure Code No. 1086, through Law No. 5239 dated 26.09.2004. However, the Regional Courts of Appeal, which are the courts which have jurisdiction over these appeals, actually started to operate following the decision of the Ministry of Justice published in the Official Gazette dated 07.11.2015, during the period of the Civil Procedure Code No. 6100 (“CPC”) and with the Law No. 5235 on 20.07.2016. With this regulation, the two-tier appellate system, which previously consisted of only the courts of first instance and the Court of Cassation, was changed to a three-tier appellate system consisting of the courts of first instance, the Regional Courts of Appeal and the Court of Cassation. This article covers the conditions for filing an appeal in the Regional Courts of Appeal and the results of deficiencies in this application, based on the decisions of the Court of Cassation. A General Overview of the Appellate Jurisdiction of the Regional Courts of Appeal In general, the appellate jurisdiction of the Regional Courts of Appeal provides parties with a right to appeal decisions on the material facts, as well as determinations of law, made by the courts of first * Article of December, 2021
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