The Ministry of Trade announced today that deadlines for service providers to register with the IYS and upload their approvals to the system has been postponed once again, considering the negative effects of the new type of Coronavirus ...

Pursuant to the Regulation Amending the Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages ("Regulation") that was published in ...

With reference to the Newsletter published in our website on November 20141, the Law on Electronic Commerce ("Law") entered into force on May 1, 2015.

The Draft Omnibus Law on Changes to Various Laws has been under discussion before the Turkish Grand General Assembly for a while.

On 21 April 2017, pursuant to Annex Article 9 of the Law No:3289, the TASF, which has been a deputy-chairmanship within the Federation of Developing Sports-Branch of Turkey since 2013...

The Advertisement Board rendered a guiding decision in September 2022 with respect to the advertisements published by an international fashion company operating in Turkey...

The Board of Advertisement has decided on July 14, 2020 for suspension of the complained advertisements with regard to "No Attack" branded products and also imposed a fine of TRY 104'781.- (for each) on the advertiser as well as individuals promoting this product through social media accounts.

With the Commercial Practices Decision with File Number 2024/2660 ("Decision"), published on the website of the Turkish Ministry of Commerce Advertisement Board...

The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance ("GALA") releases the second edition of "Sweepstakes & Contests: A Global Legal Perspective" book on OCT 2021.

Third Party Ownership (TPO) is an agreement between a club and a third party (businesses and/or individuals–investment funds, agents etc.) to exchange a percentage of the so-called "economic rights" of the future transfer (value) of a football player. TPO is currently banned in England, France and Poland.

While the world and Turkey are dealing with coronavirus pandemic, demand for protective masks, sanitizer, cleaning products and foodstuff significantly increased. Some manufacturers, suppliers...

Turkey had previously launched the electronic Apostille system ("System") with Law No. 7101 on the Amendments in the Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law and Certain Laws ("Amendment")...

Social media advertising is mainly regulated under Consumer Protection Law and the Advertising Regulation in Turkey.

On 4 November 2020, according to the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), social network providers including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Periscope and TikTok were fined 10 million Turkish liras.

The Radio and Television Supreme Council ("RTUK") issued amendments to certain media regulations, which were published in Official Gazette No. 31485 on 18 May 2021

We had shared in a previous article that natural and legal entities that deliver electronic commercial messages were now required to register with the Centralized Commercial Message Management System ("IYS").

Turkish Competition Authority decided that four competing undertakings which are engaged in the purchase and sale of used cars through online platforms, violated Article 4...

Thus, the Board unanimously concluded not to impose an administrative fine.

Broadcast media is ruled and supervised by the Radio and Television Supreme Council ("RTUK"), an autonomous and impartial public legal entity. The RTUK regulates and supervises the radio...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has accepted the proposed consent order resolving concerns related to the acquisition of The Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. ("IPG") by Omnicom Group Inc. ("Omnicom").