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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 February 12, 2015, the Turkish Minister of Finance Mehmet Şimşek announced the government's intention to impose corporate income tax and VAT on non-resident Internet companies by introducing the concept of "electronic taxpayer" to the Tax Procedure Law

The rapidly evolving digital ecosystem has transformed copyright law from a technical field into a central topic of economic and societal debate. This comprehensive review examines significant developments in Turkish copyright law as of 2025, exploring how artificial intelligence, digital content creation, press publishing rights, and the sports industry are challenging existing legal frameworks and reshaping the balance between right holders and users.

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.

As part of efforts to strengthen its monitoring of e-commerce in Turkey, the Ministry of Finance's Revenue Administration published a draft General Communiqué on the Tax Procedure Law on its website on September 15 that, if adopted as expected, would require certain taxpayers to provide additional information on their e-commerce operations.

The ICTA continues to take active steps to regulate the electronic communications sector.

According to the newly adopted Law, commercial messages can be sent to a consumer electronically only if the consumer has given either electronically or in writing prior approval.

Amazon will attend a European Parliament hearing at the end of June to justify its lobbying practices after being denied access to the Parliament's premises for failing to engage transparently with regulatory processes.

As of 2 August 2025, a new set of provisions under the Artificial Intelligence Act has entered into force. Providers of general-purpose artificial intelligence...

Changes have been made to regulations for Payment Services, Electronic Money Issuance, Payment Agencies and Electronic Money Agencies in Turkey.

Prior to the afore-mentioned amendment, remote customer onboarding processes were applied only to real persons since May 1, 2021.