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Notes
The Authority publishes; the Board decides; the Official Gazette records. These are the working notes that come out of reading all three closely — each one written from the Turkish text, with every provision it relies on linked back to the statute.
Docket
| Date | Note | Filed under | Extent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-border data transfers under Turkey’s KVKK The July 2024 Regulation implementing amended Article 9 of the KVKK: adequacy decisions, appropriate safeguards, five-day SCC notification, occasional exceptions. Compliance Articles | Compliance Articles | ||
| Explanatory Note on Chatbots (ChatGPT Example) under Turkey’s KVKK The Authority’s June 2025 note on conversational AI: what chatbots process, where the risks sit, and the privacy-by-design duties it places on developers. KVKK Guides | KVKK Guides | ||
| Explanatory Note on Deepfake Technology under Turkey’s KVKK The Authority’s April 2025 note on synthetic media: how deepfakes depend on biometric data, how to spot them, and the measures expected of organisations. KVKK Guides | KVKK Guides | ||
| Public Announcement by KVKK: Clarification on GDPR References in KVKK Disclosures Declaring a privacy notice GDPR-compliant does not satisfy the KVKK. The Authority’s 2019 announcement, and what it means for multinational disclosures. Compliance Articles | Compliance Articles | ||
| Public Announcement by the Authority: Exemption Criteria for VERBİS Registration Controllers whose main activity is special-category processing can now be exempt from VERBİS if they stay under the new employee and balance-sheet thresholds. Compliance Articles | Compliance Articles | ||
| Personal Data Protection Board – Principle Decisions All sixteen principle decisions of the Personal Data Protection Board, 2017 to 2026, from directory sites (2017/61) to public bodies posting personal data online (2026/1301 of 1 July 2026), in English. DPA Rulings | DPA Rulings |
Notes are dated by publication on this site. Where a note reports an instrument or an announcement, the date of that instrument is given in the note itself. Extent is an estimate at two hundred words a minute, and the rule beside each figure draws it against the longest note in this table.