Investment Arbitration and Sovereignty – From a Turkish Law Perspective

Introduction

Turkey is party to many Bilateral Investment Treaties (“BITs”) and to the Energy Charter Treaty. Under these investment treaties, Turkey provides investors with a wide range of rights, such as fair and equitable treatment, full protection and security, non-discriminatory treatment, national treatment and most-favored nation treatment. In addition, under these treaties, Turkey gives its consent to a number of investment arbitration mechanisms, such as International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (“ICSID”) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”) for disputes arising out of alleged treaty violation claims of the investors. Investment arbitration is a relatively new concept for Turkey. In the first ICSID arbitration case against Turkey, PSEG Global Inc., The North American Coal Corporation and Konya Ilgin Elektrik Üretim ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi v. Turkey, ICSID Case No. ARB/02/5, the tribunal accepted jurisdiction on 4 June 2004 resolved the case on merits on 19 January 2007. The second case was…

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