A New Era in Cross-Border Data Transfers in Turkey

The Law Proposal Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure and Certain Laws and Decree Law No. 659 (“Law Proposal”), which embodies significant changes to the Law No. 6698 on the Personal Data…


Sending Invoices Issued to Third Parties to a Data Subject’s E-Mail Address

The Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) evaluated a complaint regarding the processing of personal data through sending e-invoices to the e-mail address of a data subject in the decision dated…


Looking Back at the Legal Developments on Data, Technology, Fintech, E-Commerce and Telecoms in 2022

  2022 was another year full of developments in the legal sphere in Turkey. When we look back at 2022, we see that legislators in the Republic of Turkey – as well as in other countries - took…


Turkish Data Protection Authority Started Enforcement Against Foreign Controllers

Recently, the Turkish Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) started sending information request letters dated August 15, 2022, to foreign controllers (data controllers located outside Turkey but…


COMMITMENT LETTER APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA ABROAD

The conditions of the transfer of personal data abroad are regulated under Turkish Data Protection Law w. no 6698 (“DPL”). One of the conditions is that in the case that one of the conditions of…