14 Jun 2021
1. What is the legal framework (legislation/regulations) governing bribery and corruption in your jurisdiction? In Turkey, the main legislation governing bribery and corruption is the Turkish Criminal Code No 5237 (“TCC”). Bribery is criminalized under Article 252 of the […]
9 Jun 2021
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 […]
9 Jun 2021
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 […]
9 Jun 2021
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, […]
2 Jun 2021
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 […]
27 May 2021
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 […]
24 May 2021
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 […]
11 May 2021
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 […]
11 May 2021
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 […]
11 May 2021
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 […]
