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Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu ("BTK") tarafından verilen Twitter'da Reklam Verilmesinin Yasaklanması hakkındaki 19.07.2023...

Social media has significantly expanded individuals’ ability to express their opinions, access information, and participate in public debate. However, this expansion has also created new areas of infringement with respect to individuals’ honor and reputation, private life, visual data, personal data, and social standing. Under Turkish law, the violation of personal rights through social media posts is not resolved through a single legal norm; rather, it is assessed through the combined application of the Constitution, the Turkish Civil Code, the Turkish Code of Obligations, the Turkish Penal Code, Law No. 5651, and Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data.

The Turkish Constitutional Court recently handed down certain decisions related to social media posts which touch on different aspects of the rights and freedoms guaranteed under the Turkish Constitution ...

Sosyal medya, kullanıcıların internet üzerinden içerik ürettikleri, günlük hayatlarını paylaştıkları, yaratıcı işlerini ortaya koydukları interaktif iletişim platformudur. Sosyal medyanın...

Unfortunately, access to Imgur was blocked in Turkey around 2016.

In Turkey, until recently, there were no special provisions, laws, regulations or self-regulating rules relating to advertising through social media. In this respect, general advertising rules and principles were to apply.

Turkey's new regulation mandates strict age verification and child-specific protections for social media platforms, prohibiting services to users under 15 and requiring segregated, privacy-enhanced accounts for those aged 15-17. Social network providers must implement parental controls, restrict targeted advertising and profiling, and establish transparent appeal mechanisms, with enforcement beginning November 2026.

Social media is an interactive communication platform where users create content over the Internet, share their daily lives and creative works. Before social media existed, all kinds...

If the content has the characteristics of an original work, the next step is to determine if there is a violation.

Since the beginning of 2026, notable legislative and policy developments have taken place in Türkiye on the protection of children in digital environments, reflecting an accelerated effort to establish...

July 2020 – On 29 July 2020, important amendments were made by the Turkish parliament to the "Law on the Regulation of Broadcasts via the Internet and Prevention of Crimes Committed through Such Broadcasts"

The Regulation on the Provision of Separate Services for Children and Age Verification by Social Network Providers (the “Regulation”), published in the Official Gazette dated 10 October 2026 and numbered 33396, will enter into force on 1 November 2026.

The Presidential Circular numbered 2019/2 on Information and Communication Security Measures (the "Circular") was published in Official Gazette number 30823 on 6 July 2019.

July 2020 – On 29 July 2020, important amendments were made by the Turkish parliament to the "Law on the Regulation of Broadcasts via the Internet and Prevention of Crimes Committed...

The ongoing covid-19 pandemic dominated legal developments in 2021 as restrictions were maintained in order to mitigate its impact.

The importance of digitalization is increasing every day. We now use digital wallets, store our books in digital libraries and communicate through social media accounts.

The law amending the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Internet Broadcasts and Prevention of Crimes Committed through Such Broadcasts was accepted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on July 29, 2020 ...

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Periscope, and TikTok are fined TRY 10 million (EUR 1 million), each failing to comply with the new regulation governing social media services.