1. Given Turkey’s recent economic problems and the problems created by the Covid-19 pandemic, how is this affecting your firm?
We can proudly say that we have successfully surpassed the challenging position that came along with the Covid-19 pandemic in all respectable matters thanks to our comprehensive experience gained throughout the 53 years in which we have provided legal services in Turkey. In these 53 years, our firm had to take innovative and cautious steps in order to tide over many different challenges such as several economic and political crises we have encountered as a country. So, when the first cases of Covid-19 were reported by the officials in Wuhan City, China, in December 2019, we knew that we had to prepare for the worst-case scenario. For this reason, we have accelerated our digitalisation process – thus taking it into a next level even though our digital infrastructure was already at advanced levels. As such, when the first Covid-19 case was announced in Turkey on 10 March 2020, we were already prepared to detach ourselves from our physical offices and started to work from our homes on 15 March 2020 through the decision mutually taken by our partners.
