Protection Of Websites Under Turkish Law

1. Introduction

The Internet has gone beyond of its fundamental functions of providing access to information and distributing the same and become a tool for interconnecting the entire world and an irreplaceable method of meeting the most basic human needs due to the transformation it has been going through the recent years. Accordingly, websites have turned into platforms with which we make contacts multiple times every day in order to carry out our daily activities. In Turkey, being one of the countries with greatest percentage of internet penetration, there is no set of rules specifically applicable to websites, which leaves the question of how exactly websites are protected under Turkish law unanswered. This Article, aiming to establish the scope of legal protection conferred to websites under Turkish law in the light of academic studies and judicial decisions, is consisted of the parts of (i) definition and elements of websites, (ii) possible legal