Why Should I Sign Up for Membership?

Persons who have the obligation to register (hence the right to register) in the Chambers of Commerce and Industry are determined by Article 9 of Law No. 5174. According to this;

Traders registered in the trade registry and all real and legal persons who have the title of industrialist, maritime merchant, and their branches, factories, regional directorates that make sales, except warehouses that do not sell but only shipments and representative offices, according to Article 5 of this Law, are obliged to register in the chamber where they are selling.

 

Economic Enterprises and their branches, all of whose capital belongs to the State and Special Administrations or municipalities or their partnership, are established by a special law or contract, and the entities with legal personality that are the subsidiary of the State and Special Administrations or the Municipality or their units listed in the previous paragraph are obliged to register in the Chambers of the place where they are located. .

The prerequisites (basic) for registration with the Chambers of Commerce and Industry

To be registered in the Trade Registry,

Being a merchant or an industrialist in accordance with Law No. 5174.

 

 

Persons who do not engage in the business specified as "commercial activity" in the Turkish Commercial Code No. 6762 and / or are not deemed "merchants" according to this law are not obliged to register with the Chambers of Commerce (or the Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Real person merchant:

 

According to the 14th article of the Turkish Commercial Code, a person who operates a commercial enterprise on his behalf, even partially, is considered a merchant.

According to this definition, the existence of a commercial enterprise in order for natural persons to gain the quality of a merchant is that this commercial enterprise operates on its behalf, even partially.

 

Legal person merchant (Commercial Companies);

 

Commercial Companies are determined by article 136 of the TCC numbered 6762. Collective, limited partnership, joint stock, limited liability and cooperative companies (without the condition that the persons who are partners of these companies are also "merchants") are trade companies.

 

Exceptions brought by special laws; These companies are considered merchants and are subject to all the rights and obligations attributed to the "merchant" by the law numbered 6762.