Minimum attorney fee tariff (AAÜT) calculator

How it is calculated

• What the tariff is. The Minimum Attorney Fee Tariff (Avukatlık Asgari Ücret Tarifesi, AAÜT) is issued by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (Türkiye Barolar Birliği) and published in the Official Gazette (Resmî Gazete). The tariff in force when the legal help is completed or judgment is given applies (art. 21). The date the figures below came into force is in the parameter table.
• What it is used for. Against the losing side, a court may not order a lawyer’s fee below the tariff amount or above three times it (art. 3/1), and the fee belongs to the lawyer (Attorneys Act art. 164/5). As a floor, a fee cannot be agreed below the tariff (Attorneys Act art. 164/4; tariff art. 1/3).
• It is not this office’s fee. What a client pays is set by agreement between lawyer and client, and the contract states the legal service and its amount or value (Attorneys Act arts 163–164). This calculator does not state or estimate it.
• Which part applies. Where the subject is not money, the fixed fee of the court applies (second part). Where the claim is a sum of money or can be valued in money, the proportional fee applies (third part): each slice of the claim is charged at its own percentage, but never less than the fixed fee of the court hearing the case (art. 13/1) and never more than the amount accepted or rejected (art. 13/2). In enforcement offices the fixed fee applies up to the limit in the table (art. 11/1). Enforcement court matters (art. 11/3), enforcement for eviction (art. 11/5) and tax court cases (second part, first section) carry the fixed fee even where the subject is money.
• Courts the tariff does not name. The tariff has one line for asliye courts (courts of first instance) and does not name family, labour, commercial or criminal courts separately. The calculator lists them and applies that line, because the laws that set up family and labour courts place them at the level of an asliye court (Law 4787 art. 2; Law 7036 art. 2) and commercial and criminal courts of first instance are asliye courts by name. That is a reading, not tariff text. Which court a matter belongs to is for the court and the lawyer to confirm.

What it leaves out

• Courts and bodies not listed, for example the Constitutional Court. Appeal-stage hearings carry separate fees (art. 2/2); for the hearings listed, only the fixed fee of the hearing is shown, and the proportional fee of a money claim is not applied at that stage (art. 13/1).
• Fees for legal help outside litigation, such as consultation or drafting documents (first part of the tariff).
• Rules that change the result: half the fee when a dispute ends before the preliminary-examination minutes are signed (art. 6); three-quarters when the debtor pays within the payment period (art. 11/4–5); counterclaims and merged cases (art. 8); partial rejection of a damages claim (art. 13/3); moral damages (art. 10); third-party ownership claims (istihkak) in enforcement courts (art. 11/3); serial cases (art. 22).
• The court’s discretion between the tariff amount and three times it (art. 3/1), and anything that depends on the facts of a particular case.