On 12 March 2026, the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (the "DPA") published its guideline titled "Agentic Artificial Intelligence" (the "Guideline").

The Turkish Data Protection Board, through its principle decision dated 11 February 2026 and numbered 2026/266, made important assessments regarding transactions carried out by third parties during shopping by using the mobile phone number ...

Vice President Basri Bağcı, who cast a dissenting vote against the Decision, argued that the present case was a seizure case between private individuals and that the evaluations regarding the administration's de facto expropriation were not suitable for the concrete case.

The General Assembly on the Unification of Judgments of the Court of Cassation (the “Assembly”), in its decision dated 8 May 2026 with file no. 2021/8 E. and decision no. 2026/1 K. (the “Decision”), ruled that a claim not included in the statement of claim cannot be introduced into the proceedings through partial amendment. The Decision was published in the Official Gazette dated 30 June 2026 and numbered 33296.

The decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Türkiye (“Constitutional Court“) file no. 2025/190, decision no. 2026/38 (“Decision“) was published in the Official Gazette dated 21 May 2026 No. 33260.

The Turkish Data Protection Board’s (“Board”) principle decision dated 29 April 2026 and numbered 2026/921 on the Processing of Biometric Data for Attendance Tracking Purposes (“Principle Decision”) was published in the Official Gazette dated 2 June 2026 and numbered 33268.

The decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Türkiye (“Constitutional Court” or “Court”) file No. 2025/128, decision No. 2025/273 (“Decision”) was published in the Official Gazette dated 17 March 2026.

Under the phrase set out in Article 48(6)(d) of the LPC, operators of electronic commerce marketplaces acting as intermediary service providers were exempted from liability for the exercise of consumers’ alternative rights in respect of defective goods as regulated under Article 11 of the LPC — even where such operators collected payment on behalf of the seller or supplier.

The Chamber has thus changed its settled precedent by reversing its earlier decision on the same issue.

On 5 March 2026, the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority published its guideline titled "Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools in the Workplace".

The Turkish Data Protection Board, through its principle decision dated 18 February 2026 and numbered 2026/347, clarified that explicit consent texts and privacy notices presented by data controllers to data subjects must be prepared separately.

The decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Türkiye (“Constitutional Court“) file no. 2026/49, decision no. 2026/48 (“Decision“) was published in the Official Gazette dated 21 May 2026 No. 33260.

A term sheet is the first substantive document exchanged in a venture capital transaction. It records the commercial and legal parameters that the parties have agreed in principle (e.g., valuation, investment amount, governance rights, exit mechanics) and signals that serious negotiations have begun. In the United States, where the global VC standard was established, the term sheet is a largely standardized instrument governed by well-developed transactional practice and a deep body of Delaware case law.

A flip-up (corporate reorganization) is the restructuring of the shareholding and group structure of a local startup company under a foreign holding company.

Employers provide training to their employees both to improve the quality of their workforce and to ensure that the investment made in such training benefits the employment relationship for a certain period of time. For this reason, contractual provisions under which an employee undertakes to remain employed for a certain period after receiving training and, if they leave before the expiry of that period, to reimburse all or part of the training costs are frequently encountered in practice.

The Regulation on Refurbished Products (“Regulation”), published in the Official Gazette dated 27 June 2026 and numbered 33293, entered into force on 1 August 2026. The Regulation repealed the Regulation on the Sale of Refurbished Products, which had constituted the main regulatory framework for the refurbished products market since 22 August 2020, and substantially reorganized the system governing the refurbishment, certification and sale of refurbished products.

In the global economic order, as information has become a more strategic form of capital than tangible assets, the legal mechanisms designed to protect it have necessarily evolved. Non-Disclosure Agreements ("NDAs") function as the legal safeguard of trust at every level of the commercial ecosystem, from a simple business meeting to multi-billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions ("M&A") transactions.

Flip-up (kurumsal yeniden yapilandirma), yerel bir girisim sirketinin hissedarlik ve grup yapisinin, yabanci bir holding sirketi altinda yeniden kurgulanmasidir.

Law No. 7582 on the Amendment of Certain Laws (the “Law”) was published in the Official Gazette dated 4 June 2026. The Law introduces significant amendments in various key areas, particularly tax legislation and foreign direct investment law.

The start-up ecosystem, which has become one of the main driving forces of the global economy, plays a critical role in enabling technological innovation and new business models.