The Turkish Data Protection Act is now in full effect after a two-year compliance grace period causing a boom in the area of data protection in the country. In this Privacy Tracker post, Filiz Toprak Esin and Asena Aytuğ Keser of Gün + Partners write that while, currently, the "focus is mostly on this conformity process, there is also the criminal law aspect of the matter to which one should not turn a blind eye." Illegal recording, distribution, receipt, transfer and non-destruction of personal data were already criminalized under the Criminal Code, but now, "with the newborn provisions of the DPA that introduce the rules and principles for processing personal data and also refer to criminal liability in case of breaches of the law, how these two laws will apply together is an issue of concern."
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