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The Regulation on Amendment of Regulation on the Presentation of Radio, Television and On-Demand Broadcasts on the Internet (“Internet Regulation”), the Regulation on Amendment of Regulation on Administrative and Financial Conditions Required for Media Service Providers and Platform and […]

The following are summaries of four recent decisions of the Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”). Decision No. 2021/140: Complainant alleged that third party’s accessing certain real property tax and valuation information, using complainant’s ID number alone as a search […]

On 7 May 2021, the Turkish Competition Board made public certain preliminary findings (“Report“) from its e-marketplace sector inquiry, commenced 11 June 2020 (“Inquiry”), by publishing same on the Turkish Competition Authority’s (“TCA”) website. The Inquiry was intended to, […]

1. LEGISLATION | NOTABLE CASE LAW 1.1. List any specific whistleblowing legislation No specific whistleblowing legislation exists in Turkey. However, certain provisions in various laws and sub-legislation applies to whistleblowing including those listed below in 1.3.  European Union’s adoption […]

Non-fungible tokens (“NFT”s) have taken internet by storm after the sale of a JPEG image in NFT format for 69.4 million USD on March 11, 2021. Following this sale, the sale of tweets, videos, and other digital content in […]

INTRODUCTION Turkey’s first legislation addressing personal data protection was enacted on April 4th, 2016. Turkish Data Protection Law numbered 6698 (“DP Law”) outlines a similar framework to the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and the secondary legislation in the […]

General Communiqué of Financial Crimes Investigation Board numbered 19, effective as of 1 May 2021, on remote identity verification (the “Communiqué”), was published in Official Gazette numbered 31470 of 30 April 2021. The important provisions included in the Communiqué […]

The Personal Data Protection Board published three recent decisions concerning processing of personal data. Each is summarized below. Decision No.2020/746: Data subject’s request to receive, by Registered Electronic Mail (KEP), audio recording of interview with data controller is within […]

On 16 April 2021, the Central Bank of Turkey published the country’s first crypto-asset regulation, styled Regulation on the Use of Crypto-Assets in Payments (“Regulation”), effective 30 April 2021, in Official Gazette numbered 314561.  Notable provisions include: Crypto-assets cannot be […]

The Regulation on Amendment of Regulation on the Measures for Prevention of Laundering Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing, effective as of 1 May 2021 (the “Amendment Regulation”), was published in Official Gazette numbered 31471 of even date.  The […]