Risk & Preventive Advisory · Alt Service

Before the authority, one channel, one consistent statement.

Managing contact with public authorities, regulators, and auditors through a single channel: information requests, on-site inspections, and notification obligations.

Sub-service Dossier
Overview

Scattered statements, the greatest risk

In periods of crisis or investigation, several authorities may knock on the door at once: tax, competition, KVKK, sectoral regulator, labour inspector. Answers given by different units without knowledge of one another produce contradictions and new investigations. The solution is to conduct all contact through a single channel, on the record, and with strategic coherence.

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Information requests and correspondence structure

The legal basis, scope, and time limit of each request is analysed; requests that exceed their scope are narrowed in accordance with procedure. Answers are prepared with the awareness that they will bind the future defence; attachments are provided from a single inventory. For documents containing trade secrets and personal data, protective notations are added.

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On-site inspection accompaniment

In unannounced inspections and searches, our teams provide on-site accompaniment: identity and authority checks, scope limitation, record-keeping discipline, and logging of seized material. Employees are given an inspection conduct guide in advance — it follows the same discipline as our search and seizure response.

How We Work

One channel, one record, one strategy

The setup has four steps. Notification inventory: which authority can ask what, on which legal basis, within which deadline — prepared before any inspection is on the horizon. Channel protocol: a single point of contact is designated; who may speak with an inspector, who records, who escalates. Request-response workflow: every incoming request passes a legal-basis and scope check; answers leave from a single inventory with protective notations where needed. Follow-up: commitments given during an audit are tracked to completion, and the file is closed with a lessons memo. Deliverables: the authority map, the correspondence log and a response template set.

Deadlines & Remedies

Time limits, and the routes of appeal

Behind the contact regime sits a discipline of deadlines. An annulment action against an administrative act is brought, as a rule, within sixty days under the Administrative Procedure Law (No 2577), and within thirty days before the tax courts; administrative fines run on the fifteen-day application windows of the Misdemeanours Law (No 5326); and sector-specific statutes add appeal stages of their own. Every day that passes without an answer shapes both the defence and the right to bring a case, which is why two dates are written on every piece of correspondence: the date the reply is due, and the last day of the route of appeal. A single line of reservation entered in the record at the close of an inspection can decide the case months later.

Who Engages Us

Typical multi-authority exposure

The service is most often used by companies exposed to several regimes at once — the KVKK (Law No. 6698), the Competition Law No. 4054 and tax inspections under the Tax Procedure Law No. 213 — and by Türkiye subsidiaries of German groups that must report every authority contact to headquarters in a consistent, bilingual format. Where an inspection escalates into a crisis scenario, coordination passes seamlessly to our first-48-hours response; where the answers require looking inward first, our internal investigations team establishes the facts before the authority does.

Why Köksal?

We are by your side for Authority & Audit Liaison

We prepare the inventory of notification obligations in advance, establish the authority communication protocol, and conduct contacts under the coordination of the crisis desk. The aim is to preserve the appearance of cooperation while not waiving a single line of the rights of defence.

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Matter Connections

The focus areas, practice areas, desks and legislation connected with this sub-service.

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The Team Delivering This Service

With our multilingual team of lawyers, well-versed in Turkish and German law, we are by your side.

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Related Publications

Fresh perspectives and guides from the Knowledge Centre.

No — a request is limited by its legal basis and its scope; disproportionate requests can be narrowed. Privileged and trade-secret content must be screened out before anything is handed over.

The authorisation document and its scope are checked, the legal team is called, a shadowing arrangement is set up, and the record-keeping process is initiated. Staff follow the rules of conduct defined in the guide.

Through a single incident narrative and a single document inventory: the information given to each authority must be consistent with the others. Cross-risk analysis (the effect of what is given to one authority on another) is essential.

Service

Authority & Audit Liaison — get the right legal support.

Let us identify the right solution together, drawing on our experience in Türkiye and the DACH region.