You can be. The duty of oversight that comes with a board seat continues whether or not you touch the operation, and it cannot be delegated away. The Turkish Commercial Code (No. 6102) sets the duties of care and of loyalty for board members, and while a formal delegation of management under Article 367 — a written internal directive assigning executive duties — narrows a non-executive director’s exposure for day-to-day acts, it does not remove the duty to choose a suitable person and to keep the process under review.
So “I don’t get involved in operations” is not, by itself, a defence. What a personal defence actually rests on is documents: asking for reporting that is regular and substantive rather than decorative, putting questions at board level and making sure they reach the minutes, and entering a dissent where one is warranted and taking a proper record of it. Public debts sit under their own liability regimes — unpaid tax and social security premiums can be pursued against a legal representative — which is why a clear allocation of authority and signature matters as much as the minutes do.
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