The deadlines for registration with the Data Controllers Registry (“Registry”) has been extended by the Data Protection Board (“Board”) with its decision dated 27th December 2019 and numbered 2019/387. The Boar…

The Turkish Data Protection legislation has been constantly updated in light of secondary legislation as well as decisions of the Turkish Data Protection Board. Thus controllers must follow up the changes and u…

On 15 October 2019, the Turkish Data Protection Authority (“TDPA”) published its decision on "Minimum Requirements for Data Breach Notifications to be made to Data Subjects" (dated 18 September 2019 and numbere…

The Data Protection Board (“Board”) published its decision on 7 October 2019 regarding possible registration obligation of branches and liaison offices of foreign companies in Turkey with the Data Controllers’ …

Upon requests coming from various sector representatives including The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB), the Personal Data Protection Board in Turkey (“Board”) decided to postpo…

Turkey: Why is it important for your Global Compliance Program? In the last two years, global companies were too busy getting compliant with the GDPR and all the other regions were mostly out of their radar. Bu…

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 complian…

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 th…