Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (Montreal 28 May 1999) The Montreal Convention (in Turkish)

Speakers: Bilal Ekşi, Director, Prof. Dr. Paul Stephen Demsey, Prof. Dr. Pablo Mendes de Leon, Asst. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Derya Tarman, Prof. Dr. Cumhur Özakman, Lale Kaplan, Prof. Dr. iur. Elmar Giemulla, Asst. Prof. Dr. Meltem Deniz Güner-Özbek. 

Conference Content: Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air was signed in Montreal on 28 May 1999 and came into force in 2003. It is the successor of the Warsaw Convention, Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw on 1 October 1929 – Warsaw Convention 1929. Türkiye was a party to the Warsaw Convention and adopted its provisions into its domestic law. Montreal Convention modernized the system created by Warsaw Convention. Türkiye became a party to the Montreal Convention and the Convention came into force with respect to Türkiye on March 26, 2011. Disputes that require the application of the Montreal Convention have just started to come before the Turkish courts. Furthermore, civil aviation is fast growing in Türkiye. Thus, in order to explore and examine the new Convention Koç University Faculty of Law organized a one-day conference on Montreal Convention. In addition two members of the Law Faculty speakers included foreign academics leading few air law institutes in the world, a senior practicing lawyer and the director of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.