After an enforcement decision, how do I collect my receivable?

An enforcement decision gives the foreign judgment the force of a Turkish court judgment, and you collect on it through judgment-based execution proceedings. Those run through the enforcement office under the Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law (İİK, No. 2004): an execution order is served on the debtor, and if payment is not made the file moves into compulsory execution.

At that stage attachment can be applied to the debtor’s bank accounts, immovable property, vehicles, receivables held by third parties and shareholding interests, and where necessary the assets are sold and converted into money. Collection tends to move faster here than in ordinary proceedings, because in judgment-based execution the debtor’s grounds of objection are limited. We run the whole process from the enforcement decision becoming final through to collection, including the searches into what the debtor actually owns.