On 27 March 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed Decision No. 2314 for the ratification of the pending protocol to the 1996 income tax treaty with Uzbekistan. The protocol, signed 25 October 2017, is the first to amend the treaty and will enter into force once the ratification instruments are exchanged and will apply from 1 January of the year following its entry into force.