DRAFT REGULATION ON DATA CONTROLLER REGISTRY HAS BEEN MADE AVALIABLE TO PUBLIC CONSULTATION BY THE DATA PROTECTION BOARD Draft Regulation on Data Controller Registry (“Draft”) has been made available to publi…

Cyber liability may have been an exotic notion for Turkish companies but will soon be a very hot topic for many years to come. As the Turkish Data Protection Law has entered into effect as of 7 April 2016, the…

Turkey adopted its new Data Protection Law (“Law”) on 7 April 2016 as part of its efforts to harmonize its legislations with the European Union. The Law has followed the principles set forth in the Data Protect…

Before we start, we must simply answer why data security is now all of a sudden very important for Turkish companies? This is because, on 7 April 2016 the Turkish Data Protection Law (“Law”) introduced data sec…

As of 7 October 2016, Turkish Data Protection Law numbered 6698 (“Law”) will require that explicit consent is obtained for the transfer of personal data overseas. Certain exemptions exist for processing of sens…