The Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) has determined a new exemption criterion regarding the obligation to register with the Data Controllers’ Registry (“VERBİS”) for data controllers whose main activity involves the processing of special categories of personal data, with its Board Decision dated 04.09.2025 and numbered 2025/1572. The said Decision was published in the Official...

Presidential Decrees (numbered 10362, 10363, and 10364), published in the Official Gazette on September 6, 2025, implemented some increases in stamp duty, special consumption tax, and fees. Accordingly, stamp duties paid on declarations submitted to the tax office, customs administrations, municipalities, and special provincial administrations, as well as insurance premium declarations submitted to social security...

The Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) has updated the “Guidelines on Cookie Practices” (“Guidelines”), which were first published in July 2022, and reissued them in 2025. The updated Guidelines provide important instructions for data controllers regarding the processing of personal data through cookies and set forth the scope of compliance obligations under Law No. 6698...

The Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) has announced that, based on complaints submitted to it, creditor attorneys have accessed the phone numbers of debtors’ relatives and shared the debtor’s personal data, including name, surname, and debt information, with such third parties through phone calls or text messages. This practice poses significant risks in terms of...

Law No. 7555 on the Protection of the Value of the Turkish Currency and Amending Certain Laws and Decree Law No. 635, which was published in the Official Gazette on 24 July 2025, introduced significant changes to various tax laws.   1.Restrictions on the Reduced Corporate Income Tax Incentive for Promoted Investments. The maximum duration...

The Presidential Decree No. 10094 dated July 17, 2025, published in the Official Gazette on July 18, 2025, set the Source Utilization Support Fund (“KKDF”) deduction rate at 1% for foreign currency and gold loans provided by banks and finance companies under commercial credit. The rate change made by the Presidential Decree will apply to...

The Regulation on the Identification and Certification of Technology and Innovation-Oriented Enterprises (the “Regulation”) was published in the Official Gazette dated July 3, 2025, and numbered 32945, and entered into force on the same date. The Regulation aims to set forth the procedures and principles regarding the identification of enterprises engaged in technology and innovation-based...

The Competition Authority’s (“Authority”) “Group Exemption Communiqué on Specialization Agreements” (“Communiqué” or “Communiqué No: 2025/2”) sets out the conditions for the group exemption of specialization agreements between undertakings from the application of Article 4 of the Law on the Protection of Competition (“Law” or “Law No. 4054”) dated 7/12/1994 and numbered 4054. The Communiqué entered...

The resolution dated 10.06.2025 and numbered 2025/1072 (“Resolution”) of the Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) dated 10.06.2025 and numbered 2025/1072 was published in the official gazette dated 26.06.2025. The resolution evaluates the processing of personal data by requesting the contact information of the relevant persons and sending a verification code via SMS during the processes...

Pursuant to the Presidential Circular No. 2025/6 published in the Official Gazette dated 10.05.2025, the 2030 Industry and Technology Strategy (“2030 Strategy Policy”) is published on the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Technology. The 2030 Strategy Policy aims to transform Türkiye’s industrial and technology ecosystem into a structure that produces higher added...