Enforcement cost calculator

How it is calculated

• Filing fee (icraya başvurma harcı): a fixed amount for each proceeding, set in Fees Law No. 492, tariff (1), part B-I-1.
• Advance fee (peşin harç): only where the proceeding is not based on a court judgment (ilamsız takip). The creditor pays binde beş (five per thousand) of the claim when filing, and it is set against the collection fee at the end (Fees Law art. 29). Interest that accrues after the petition is left out of the base (art. 20).
• Power-of-attorney copy fee (vekâlet suret harcı): charged on the lawyer-certified copy (tariff (1) D-I-c). It is the same fee as in the court cost calculator.
• Notification advance: the creditor pays in advance for the acts it requests and for notifying the debtor’s objection (Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law (İİK) art. 59). Each joint debtor receives a separate payment order (art. 61), and an objection is notified to the creditor from the advance (art. 62). On a judgment, an icra emri is served on the debtor (art. 32). If you enter the PTT fee, the calculator adds two notices per debtor (payment order and notice of objection), or one on a judgment, as a minimum. No tariff fixes the advance: the enforcement office decides it, and it can be higher.
• Collection fee (tahsil harcı): charged as a percentage of the money collected, at the rate for the stage at which it is paid (tariff (1) B-I-3; the rates are in the table below). It is paid when the debtor pays or, if no payment is made, within 15 days of the fee falling due (art. 28/b). The costs of the proceeding are the debtor’s (İİK arts 15 and 59). If the creditor withdraws, half the collection fee on the amount withdrawn is charged, and the full fee once seized property has been sold (art. 23).

What it leaves out

• Proceedings to deliver movable property or to evict from immovable property, and bankruptcy proceedings, which have their own fees (Fees Law arts 18–19, 24; tariff (1) B-II).
• The costs of later steps such as seizure, valuation, storage and sale, and the sale-cost advance the office sets.
• Proceedings under Law No. 7155 for claims arising from subscription contracts, which pay a Central Enforcement System fee instead (Fees Law art. 29/A).
• Fee exemptions (art. 13) and legal aid (Code of Civil Procedure arts 334–335).
• The bar’s power-of-attorney stamp (vekâlet pulu), which a lawyer attaches to the power of attorney when filing (Advocacy Law No. 1136 art. 27).
• Notarial and translation costs, and the lawyer’s fee.