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The Constitutional Court evaluated complainant’s (“Complainant”) application where regarding the retention of internet traffic records longer than envisaged by law. The Constitutional Court decided that legal remedies had not been exhausted and the claim was inadmissible, on the grounds […]

The following are summaries of 11 recent Personal Data Protection Board (the “Board”) decisions published on 2 August 2021: Decision No. 2019/170: a fine of TRY 50,000 was levied on data controller. Board findings: (i) data breaches were detected […]

The following are summaries of nine recent Personal Data Protection Board (the “Board”) decisions published on 9 August 2021: Decision No. 2020/50: a fine of TRY 50,000 was levied on data controller. Board findings: (i) data breaches were detected […]

In a decision numbered 2018/24439, dated 15 June 2021, the Turkish Constitutional Court Ruled that absent a legitimate purpose recognized by the Data Protection Law numbered 6698 (the “DP Law”), the nonconsensual publication via Twitter of a parliamentarian applicant’s […]

The following are summaries of ten recent decisions of the Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”). Decision No. 2020/216: Regarding a cyber-attack in data controller’s systems, the Board determined the following facts: (i) the data controller could not clearly determine […]

The following are summaries of five recent decisions of the Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”). Decision No. 2021/470: The data subject requested transaction list regarding a meal pass provided by her employer. The data controller company sent the transaction […]

On 4 June 2021, a new Regulation on Disclosure of Confidential Client Information drafted by the Banking Regulatory and Supervisory Authority, (“Regulation”) has been published in Official Gazette numbered 31501. The Regulation will be effective as of 1 January […]

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 […]

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 […]