The demand for high quality public services, particularly with respect to health care, is growing rapidly in Turkey. This demand will only accelerate given the growing expectations of Turkey’s increasingly modern and sophisticated population. To satisfy this booming demand, the private sector—with its often superior access to resources, including financial, and its use of international best practices—is increasingly being tapped by the Turkish government to assist it in the provision of these public services.

Public private partnership (PPP) is one of the investment models recently used notably in the health care sector in Turkey with the aim of ensuring better and qualified infrastructure service as well as in other sectors. Since PPP contracts are long term contracts, and there are several structural differences between the parties from the point of investment and operational approach, correct understanding by practitioners as well as decision makers and the way of implementation of PPPs are extremely important.

One of the most important aspects of these model projects is providing alternative resolution systems for the practitioners. There are some dispute resolution options presently available in Turkey, and many of them are newly fashioned in an attempt to correct this perceived source of imbalance between the public and private PPP participants.

We are delighted to share the pieces that we drafted—as the Competition and Regulation Department of Balcıoğlu Selçuk Akman Keki Attorney Partnership—on assessing dispute resolution systems in healthcare PPP projects.

Download the copy of “Dispute resolution in the health sector PPPs” here.