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🇹🇷 Turkey

Turkey's data protection regime is built on Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK), modeled on the former EU Data Protection Directive and enforced by the Personal Data Protection Authority. Amendments in 2024 widened the legal bases for special category data, including biometrics, and replaced the old cross-border transfer rules.

KVKKData privacy · since 2016

Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (Kisisel Verilerin Korunmasi Kanunu), as amended by Law No. 7499

KVKK is Turkey's general data protection law, published in the Official Gazette on 7 April 2016. Amendments under Law No. 7499 (published 12 March 2024, effective 1 June 2024) widened the legal bases for processing special category data such as biometrics and replaced the cross-border transfer rules with adequacy decisions, standard contracts, binding corporate rules and limited exceptions.

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