Setting aside of international arbitral awards due to invalidity of arbitration agreement

The reasons of setting aside of the arbitral awards are stated in Article 15 (A) of International Arbitration Code numbered 4686. While some of these reasons have to be proved by the party who applies for setting aside, the other reasons will be judi-cally noticed by the Court. Invalidity of arbitration agreement is one of the reasons which has to be proved by the party who applies for setting aside. The invalidity of arbitration agreement has been one of the issues that lawyers have been discussing for years. In the first part, general information about International Arbitration Code numbe-red 4686 will be given. In the second part, legal remedies against international arbitral awards will be indicated and reasons of setting aside will be specifically clarified. Finally, in the third part, the concept of arbitration agreement, its legal characteristic, forms of its organization, the law to be applied to its validity, the principle of inde-pendence, constituent elements of arbitration agreement and conditions for validity of arbitration agreement will be explained.