The Turkish Data Protection Board's
('TDPB') decision regarding Amazon Turkey
Perakende Hizmetleri Ltd. Şti. ("Amazon
Turkey") was published on the Turkish Data Protection
Authority's website on 7 May 2020 and it was announced that
Amazon Turkey was imposed administrative fines amounting in total
to TRY 1,200,000 (approximately USD 170,000). You can find the
Turkish version of the decision here (only the Turkish version of the decision
is available as of the publication date of this blog post).
This is a very remarkable decision since (i) the total amount of
the administrative fines imposed to Amazon Turkey is the
4th highest amount of monetary fine that the TDPB has
imposed until to date, and (ii) the decision includes assessments
for a variety of alleged violations of the Turkish Data Protection
Law ("TDPL") by Amazon Turkey, the most important one
being cross-border personal data transfers without implementing
necessary measures foreseen in the TDPL.
