2018 Legislative Predictions – Turkey

Turkey is now four months away from the deadline or fulfilling the compliance with the Data Protection Law, and in 2017 we were all busy with adopting the law as much as possible in the absence of well-established rules and practices, but in light of EU developments. It seems that our efforts will continue in 2018.

During 2017, fundamental steps were taken for the purpose of privacy after the enactment of the Data Protection Law in April 2016. The data protection authority was officially established (although it has certain organizational deficiencies) and secondary legislation has been prepared, in this respect the Regulation on Anonymization, Erasure and Deletion of Personal Data and the Regulation on Data Controllers Registry were enacted and the Regulation on Protection of Health Data which was highly criticized during 2016 and subject to stay of execution decision in 2017, was recently amended in a way to clarify the main controversial provisions. In addition,