Cri­ti­cisms of in­ter­na­tion­al in­vest­ment ar­bit­ra­tion con­sidered in the Turk­ish con­text

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

The art­icle gath­ers cri­ti­cisms dir­ec­ted at ar­bit­ra­tion for dis­putes arising from for­eign direct in­vest­ment.

It states that, in Turkey, the 1999 con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ments ex­pan­ded the scope of in­ter­na­tion­al ar­bit­ra­tion, while BITs already al­lowed in­vest­ment ar­bit­ra­tion, yet the pos­sible con­sequences and cri­ti­cisms had not been suf­fi­ciently dis­cussed.