Law No. 7499 on the Amendment of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Certain Laws (“Law Amendment”), which includes significant changes to the Personal Data Protection Law (“PDPL and the Law”), was published in the Official Gazette on March 12, 2024. With Law Amendment, Article 6 titled Processing of Special Categories of Personal Data, Article...

The long-awaited and important amendments to the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“PDPL and/or Law“), Bill No. 659 on the Amendment of the Criminal Procedure Code and Certain Laws and Decree Law No. 659, known as the “8th Judicial Package” which was submitted to Turkish Grand National Assembly (“TBMM”) on February...

  With the Communiqué (Communiqué No: 2024-32/69) (“Amendment Communiqué“) published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance on the Amendment to the Communiqué on Decree No: 32 on the Protection of the Value of Turkish Currency Numbered 2008-32/34, (“Communiqué”), amendments have been made to the implementation principles regarding the prohibition of payments in foreign currency...

The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (“CBRT”) issued the Communiqué on the Redetermination of the Minimum Equity Amount of Payment and Electronic Money Institutions (“Communiqué”) and amended the minimum equity requirement set out in the Regulation on Payment Services and Electronic Money Issuance and Payment Service Providers (“Regulation”). Following the amendment, the minimum...

The Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) published Guidelines on the Processing of Turkish Republic Identity Numbers (“Guidelines”) on January 16, 2024. The Guideline emphasizes that the Authority has received many complaints that the direct processing of Turkish Republic ID numbers is being preferred by data controllers/processors while other methods are possible. In this context, since...

With the decision dated October 11, 2023, and numbered E: 2020/76, K: 2023/172 (“Decision”), published in the Official Gazette dated 10 January 2024 and numbered 32425, the Constitutional Court (“Constitutional Court”) annulled certain provisions of the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed through These Publications (“Internet...

  The Competition Authority (“Authority”) published the “Regulation on Cooperation for the Purpose of Uncovering Cartels” in the Official Gazette dated December 16, 2023 and numbered 32401. The Regulation” (“Regulation”) was published in the Official Gazette dated February 15, 2009 and numbered 27142 and thus the regulation with the same name (“Repealed Regulation”), which was...

  On 22 December, the Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) published the Recommendations for Privacy Protection in Mobile Applications (“Recommendation Text”). We summarize the important points in the Recommendations Text under the relevant headings below: Purpose and Scope The scope of the Recommendation Text is applications used on smartphones and tablets, and its purpose is...

  An amendment was made to the Regulation on the Principles and Rules to be Applied in Retail Trade (“Regulation”) via the Amendment Regulation on the Regulation on the Principles and Rules to be Applied in Retail Trade (“Amendment Regulation”) published in the Official Gazette dated 14 December 2023 and numbered 32399. The provisions of...

  With the Regulation on Amendments to the Official Announcement and Advertisement Regulation (“Amendment Regulation”) published in the Official Gazette dated 8 December 2023 and numbered 32393, regulations regarding the BIK Analytics software of the Press Advertisement Agency (“Agency”) were introduced. Regulations regarding BIK Analytics entered into force as of the date of publication of...