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Yandex, initially founded in Russia, was established in Turkey in 2012 as an online advertising company, and has now expanded to be one of the top five search engines in the world. Legal counsel Elcin Erdeniz explains the mission of the legal department is not just to ‘ensure that the company acts in accordance with the law’, but that ‘we do not abstain from production of innovative ideas and are applying new solutions as the global world moves with technology’. The preventative law approach is extremely important to the legal team at Yandex Türkiye as it ensures the company’s strategy is workable and based on strong legal ground. As Erdeniz says: ‘This legal perspective is not always restrictive as inured in the business life, and even laws and regulations are sometimes convenient for working out flexible solutions if your vision is wide enough to notice‘. As the technology sector in Turkey is regulated by governmental authority, the Yandex Türkiye legal department has generated numerous tangible impacts by producing solutions to delicate issues, and the same time allowing the company to maintain its activities without any interruption. The team faces the challenge of continual changes in the regulatory and legislative landscape given how notoriously difficult it is for laws to stay relevant to technological developments. The department is therefore active in holding discussions about the legal standing of search engines and what legal framework shall be used in addressing a new feature and which authority will regulate the area.