Abstract
Customer Complaints Arbitration Panel has been established in reliance upon provisions of paragraph (j) of Article 80 of the Banking Law no. 5411. The purpose of this Arbitration Panel is evaluation and resolution of disputes that may arise between the Association’s members on one side and their individual customers on the other side. Complaints which are already referred to courts, or the Insurance Arbitration Commission, or the Consumer Arbitration Panels, cannot be examined by Customer Complaints Arbitration Panel. In addition, applications arising out of banking transactions which are related to commercial, agricultural, etc. issues but are non-individual and which are filed by legal entities cannot be examined by Arbitration Panel. Since the decisions of the Customer Complaints Arbitration Panel are not binding, it is possible to be taken legal action against the dispute. However, the decisions of the Customer Complaints Arbitration Panel regarding disputes amounted up to TL 3.692 per transaction for 2019 must be enforced by the banks, providing that all judicial remedies are reserved in connection therewith. Customer Complaints Arbitration Panel is a kind of alternative dispute resolutions. The purpose of this way is to reduce workload of the judiciary, resolve disputes faster with less expense and effort.