11
January 2017

What are the restrictions for international corporations if they transfer data to the US?
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…


07
October 2016

Penalty-Free Period of Data Protection Law No 6698 has ended today
As we have examined in our previous publications, the Law No.6698 on Protection of Personal Data (“DP Law”) has entered into force on 07.04.2016 and delayed enforceability of certain provisions for comp…


06
April 2016

New Data Protection Law
A New Era for Turkish Data Privacy Practices Late in the night of 24 March 2016, Turkish National Parliament finally took the first step to have the long awaited Data Protection Law (“Law”) in place and sent t…