C-Corp or LLC? How Startup Founders Should Choose a US Entity
Members vs shareholders, options and vesting, double taxation vs pass-through flexibility, QSBS and the foreign-founder trap — the C-Corp/LLC decision explained.
Read more →Setting Up a Company in Türkiye as a Foreign Founder (2026 Guide)
100% foreign ownership, A.Ş. vs Ltd., the 2026 capital deadline, MERSİS, banking reality, work permits and the mistakes to avoid — a practical 2026 guide.
Read more →KVKK Compliance for Residential Site and Apartment Management in Türkiye
Short answer: Residential site and apartment managements in Türkiye long struggled with a basic question — who is the “data controller”? Türkiye’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) opened up its framework with its decision 2020/560 of 22 July 2020, and with principle decision 2026/348 — published in the Official Gazette on 31 March 2026 — …
Read more →The Ethical Limits of AI: Asimov’s Three Laws vs Anthropic’s Constitution
In brief: Two very different documents claim to govern the conduct of artificial minds. One is Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics — three crisp imperatives written for fiction in 1942. The other is Anthropic’s “constitution,” a real set of written principles used to train the Claude family of models. Reading them side by side …
Read more →Turkey’s New Wealth Amnesty: What Changes with Provisional Article 19
Short answer: The omnibus law dated 4 June adds Provisional Article 19 to Corporate Tax Law No. 5520, introducing a new Turkish wealth amnesty (“Varlık Barışı”). Cash, gold, foreign currency, securities and other capital-market instruments held abroad — or held in Turkey but absent from statutory books — can be declared to banks or intermediary …
Read more →Is SAFE Now Legal in Türkiye? The New Convertible-Debt Carve-Out for Teknogirişim Startups
A new omnibus law (Official Gazette, 4 June 2026) lets Teknogirişim-badge startups run convertible-debt conversions outside the Turkish Commercial Code’s conditional-capital-increase regime. A real step toward making SAFEs work in Türkiye — but not the finish line: the procedure is unwritten and a criminal-law question remains.
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