No. Owners are not required to present a periodic statement of use.

Yes. Turkey is a party to the Madrid Protocol.

The opposition period officially starts when the application is printed in the Trademarks Bulletin and ends three months later. If the end date falls on a non-working holiday, it will be moved the following the next day.

Yes. Only owners of a registered right can secure these rights: 

• Exclusive right to use the mark
• Right to contest conflicting applications filed at a later date
• Right to appeal against conflicting marks registered at a later date
• Right to sue third parties for infringement
• Right to demand for damages due to infringement
• Right to license/authorize third parties to use the mark
• Right to appeal of seizure of importation of fake goods

A registration might be cancelled for any of these grounds: 

• Lack of genuine use
• Incompatible with moral principles and public policy
• Use of geographical indication
• Generic mark or common terms
• Conflict with a personal name
• Conflict with registered designs
• Conflict with trade names
• Mark was registered under a representative’s name
• Use of protected flags, emblems or armorial bearing
• Conflict with a well-known or notorious mark
• Proprietary right
• Breach of copyright
• Descriptive, non-distinctive, functional, or misleading/disparaging/deceptive mark