CCTL Seminar – ‘The Place and Development of Turkic States in International Arbitration’ by Dr. Can Eken (Online)

International arbitration is a dispute resolution method frequently used in cross-border disputes. Apart from traditional and important seats in international arbitration, other jurisdictions started being active in the arbitration area. This article focuses on international arbitration developments in Turkic countries. Turkic countries use arbitration increasingly. They have signed many investment treaties and updated their laws, which enable arbitration to be used against them as well as investors and companies from Turkic countries to use international commercial and investment arbitration against other companies and states where they invest. We also see arbitration centres that have become active recently in Turkic countries. The Organization of Turkic countries was established with the 2009 Nakhchivan Agreement dated October 3, 2009. This article examines the developments in international arbitration of 5 current members of the Organization of Turkic countries, namely, Azerbaijan, Turkiye, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Additionally, the steps to be taken to ensure that these jurisdictions have a better place in international arbitration are also evaluated in this article.

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