At the moment, almost all countries face a global health crisis with the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Banking Law No. 5411 ("Banking Law") and the relevant secondary legislation set forth various self-reporting mechanisms for the banks operating in Turkey. We aim to focus on whether such self-reporting becomes mandatory in cases where banks detect non-compliance within their organizations. Such self-reporting is not universal, and the requirements vary with respect to the parties that are subject to these self-reporting rules and to the matters that trigger the self-reporting requirements.

As a result of the pandemic of Coronavirus (COVID-19), taking into consideration the rate of contagion and cases in countries all around the world...

On June 7, 2022, the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency ("Agency") published the Draft Guidelines on Packaging Information and Legibility of Foods for Special Medical Purposes...

The Agency has invited concerned parties to send their comments within the table format provided through the announcement through the specified e-mail address, until September 20, 2021.

Turkish Constitutional Court granted a decision on September 17, 2020 regarding an applicant's claims on violation of right to request protection of personal data under right to privacy and freedom of communication ...

The Constitutional Court granted a decision on May 22, 2019 regarding the applicant's claims on violation of their freedom of expression and press due to access ban of a news article on their newspaper's website...

The Constitutional Court had reasoned that no property right could be legislated through a decree-law.

The authority to initiate dumping or subsidy examinations, upon complaint or, where necessary, ex officio, has been given from the Ministry of Economy to the Ministry of Trade ("Ministry").

Thus, Turkey imposed an additional anti-dumping duty of 9.27% on imports of air-conditioners from Thailand as "substantially equivalent concession".

In some cases, a video displayed at a video sharing website or a photo from one of the websites providing social networking service or an application downloaded to a smartphone or just an article from a news portal website might not be reviewed as the internet connection might be extremely low to upload or download any content.

Turkey's main regulation regarding advertisements, the Regulation on Commercial Advertisement and Unfair Commercial Practices was amended with another regulation published on the Official Gazette of 4 January 2017, effective immediately.

The Law on Ratification of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data of the Council of Europe ("Convention") is published in the Official Gazette of February 18, 2016 (today) and came into force.

ELIG, Attorneys-at-Law is pleased to organize a conference on Protection of Personal Data together with EY Turkey at the Marmara Taksim in Istanbul on Friday, December 16, 2016.

The new Zoning Regulation for Planned Areas was published in the Official Gazette of July 3, 2017, and it abolished the Type Zoning Regulation for Planned Areas, which had been in force for over thirty years.

Turkey's main regulation with respect to zoning for planned areas, Type Zoning Regulation for Planned Areas ("Old Regulation"), will now be replaced by the new Zoning Regulation for Planned Areas ("Regulation"), published in the Official Gazette of 3 July 2017.

The Authority published the Board's reasoned decision (dated 22.08.2017 and numbered 17-27/454-195) on the preliminary investigation launched against BSH Ev Aletleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. ("BSH"), a subsidiary of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH operating in the market for durable consumer goods in Turkey

The Turkish Competition Board ("Board") published its reasoned decision on the investigation initiated against the Turkish Pharmacists' Association ("Türk Eczacıları Birliği" in Turkish) ("TEB") and Turkish Pharmacists' Association Commercial Enterprise ("Türk Eczacıları Birliği İktisadi İşletmesi" in Turkish) ("TEBII") on whether they had violated Article 6 of the Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition ("Law No. 4054"), by abusing their domi

The Turkish Medicine and Medical Devices Agency ("Agency") of the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on April 27, 2020 updating the Guidelines for Scientific Meetings and Educational...

On June 14, 2017, the Ankara Regional Administrative Court's 7th Administrative Chamber ("Regional Court") rendered a decision stating that telecommunications operators must be warned regarding an infringement before an administrative fine is imposed on them.