In civil court, the defendant is not obliged to file a reply petition. A defendand who does not submit a request for answers is con- sidered to have denied all the facts asserted by the plaintiff (art. 128 the law on Civil Procedure 6100). It is debatable whether a defendant who has not filed a response petition can be given time by the court to put forward his evidence, and how long such a defendant can put forward evidence. With the law on Civil Pro- cedure 6100, a stricter understanding was adopted in terms of asserting evidence compared to the former law on Civil Proce- dure of 1086. In this study, the scope of the defendant’s right to submit evidence, which does not submit a response petition, will be considered in the light of the decisions of the Supreme Court and the opinions defended in the doctrine on this issue in terms of both the first instance trial and the legal path stage.