After almost a decade of legislative struggles, on March 24 2016, the Turkish Parliament finally adopted the Law on the Protection of Personal Data (the “New Law”). The New Law is Turkey’s first specific set of parliamentary level rules addressing data protection concerns in all sectors.BackgroundIt continues to be a big year from a data protection perspective for Turkish citizens and corporations alike. As explained in an earlier post, the month of February saw the…
After decades of delay, on February 18, Turkey ratified the Council of Europe’s 1981 Strasbourg Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Data.BackgroundThe start of 2016 has been marked by a flurry of legislative activity with respect to the protection of personal data in Turkey. While the Turkish Parliament is in the final stages of debating the draft Law on the Protection of Personal Data (“Draft Law”) which is expected…