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Kaan Karanfiloğlu

Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel to Turchina Group's clients on the Turkish leg of their engagements. Galatasaray University law graduate and a registered member of the Istanbul Bar Association (registration number 58270). Kaan acts in his individual professional capacity as a Turkish lawyer; Turchina Group itself is an advisory firm, not a law firm. He handles contract review, real-estate due diligence, regulatory liaison, and dispute coordination, and selects the appropriate Turkish counsel for each case.

Kaan Karanfiloğlu is the Turkish legal counsel that Turchina Group's Chinese clients rely on. He is a registered lawyer at the Istanbul Bar Association (Sicil No. 58270) and a graduate of Galatasaray University, one of Turkey's most selective law schools, taught in French and Turkish, with a curriculum that emphasises comparative civil law and European Union directives.

His practice sits at the intersection of Turkish real-estate law, foreigners' law (yabancılar hukuku), and cross-border commercial matters. Over years of practice in Istanbul he has represented foreign buyers on residential and commercial property acquisitions, foreign investors on Turkish citizenship-by-investment files, and Chinese-owned Turkish companies on employment, supplier, and dispute matters. He is one of the small number of Istanbul lawyers who have built durable working relationships with Mandarin-speaking Chinese clients over multi-year engagements.

Under Turkish law only Bar-registered lawyers can advertise legal services, sign court filings, and appear before tribunals. Kaan performs all such work in his individual professional capacity as a licensed Turkish lawyer. Turchina Group itself does not provide legal services; it provides advisory and project coordination, and directs the client to Kaan or to another appropriate Turkish lawyer when the specific matter requires regulated legal work. This separation is deliberate and consistent with Turkish Bar Association rules.

He works in Turkish (native), English (fluent), and French (professional). He handles both drafting-heavy transactional work and litigation coordination.

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Kaan Karanfiloğlu

Education

  • Galatasaray University

Degrees and registrations

  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Galatasaray University
  • Registered lawyer, Istanbul Bar Association (registration no. 58270)

Professional memberships

  • Istanbul Bar Association

Working languages

  • Mandarin Chinese
  • English
  • Turkish

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