Please kindly be informed that all public agencies in Turkey, including the IP office (TURKPATENT) will be closed on Tuesday January 1, 2019 for New Year Holiday. Our office will be closed on this day as well. Our office as well with TURKPATENT will resume to work on Wednesday January 2, 2019. Deadlines for actions falling within said time period will accordingly be moved down to the first business day before holiday, namely Monday December 31, 2018.
Although our monitoring system will be maintained to attend to your urgent instructions, we would however highly appreciate if all instructions or correspondence involving deadlines falling on the said dates can be provided to us well in advance.
In addition to Saturdays and Sundays, the days on which the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) and our office are not scheduled to be open to the public during 2018, are the following:
| New Year | 01 January 2019 Tuesday |
| Celebration Of National Sovereignty And The Child | 23 April 2019 Tuesday |
| Labours’ Day | 01 May 2019 Wednesday |
| 19 May The Commemoration Of Atatürk, Youth And Sports Day | 19 May 2019 Sunday |
| Ramazan Bayrami (Eid Al-Fitr) | 04 June 2019 Tuesday (1/2 Day) |
| Ramazan Bayrami (Eid Al-Fitr) | 05 June 2019 Wednesday |
| Ramazan Bayrami (Eid Al-Fitr) | 06 June 2019 Thursday |
| Ramazan Bayrami (Eid Al-Fitr) | 07 June 2019 Friday |
| 15 July Democracy Day | 15 July 2019 Monday |
| Kurban Bayrami (Eid Al-Adha) | 10 August 2019 Saturday (1/2 Day) |
| Kurban Bayrami (Eid Al-Adha) | 11 August 2019 Sunday |
| Kurban Bayrami (Eid Al-Adha) | 12 August 2019 Monday |
| Kurban Bayrami (Eid Al-Adha) | 13 August 2019 Tuesday |
| Kurban Bayrami (Eid Al-Adha) | 14 August 2019 Wednesday |
| Victory Day | 30 August 2019 Friday |
| Republic Day | 28 September 2019 Monday (1/2 Day) |
| Republic Day | 29 September 2019 Tuesday |
Thank you very much for your kind attention and understanding.