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Pursuant to the Article 15/6 of the Law on Protection of Personal Data, the Personal Data Protection Board has a right to make principle decisions if it is determined that there is a widespread breach of the Law as a result of reviews conducted upon complaints or ex officio. Within this scope, two principle decisions were published within the Official Gazette on 25.1.2018. With the decision of 2017/61, it was resolved that the data processing activities of websites and mobile applications which are providing communication information of persons without a legal basis shall be terminated immediately. Otherwise it was set out

Preamble The draft Regulation on Data Controller Registry (“Regulation”) was published in the website of the Personal Data Protection Agency (“Agency”) to receive the stakeholders’ opinion. As per the announcement the stakeholders may submit their reviews and comments until 20.05.2017. As per the Law on Protection of Personal Data (“Law”) numbered 6998, the data controllers are required to register to the Data Controller Registry (“Registry”) prior to commencing processing personal data within the period determined and announced by the Board of the Agency (“Agency”). Within this scope, the Regulation which sets out the procedures and principles for registration and the related obligations

Pursuant to Article 14 of Electricity Market Law No. 6446 and the Regulation on Unlicensed Electricity Generation within the Electricity Market (“the Regulation”) the generation facilities based on renewable energy sources up to the installed capacity of 1 MW can be established with an exemption from the obligation to obtain a pre-license, license and incorporation of a company. The Article 7 of the Regulation states that the procedures and principles for application and assessment of surplus energy together with the format of the Connection Invitation Letter regarding the generation facilities up to 10 kW which are approved to prepare a typical

An important amendment was made on the Law on the Civil Registration Services No.5490 (“Law”) by the Decree-Law No.690 which was published in the Official Gazette dated 29.04.2017 and numbered 30052. With the article 27/A which was added to the Law, the foreign decisions on divorce and annulment, nullity or existence of marriage may be registered in the register of persons if the necessary conditions are fulfilled and the parties apply jointly. Accordingly, the decisions may be registered without the necessity of filing a lawsuit for recognition. The Ministry will determine the details of the Article’s application via a Regulation. The

The amendment to the Article 20 of the Regulation on the Enforcement of the Turkish Citizenship Law which sets forth the (exceptional) acquisition of Turkish citizenship was published in the Official Gazette dated 12 January 2017 and numbered 29946. The amendment sets out the acquisition of Turkish citizenship via specific methods such as acquisition of property, making capital investment or generating employment. With the amendment, which entered into force on 12 January 2017, foreign citizens may acquire Turkish citizenship by a proposal of the Ministry of Interior and the Decision of the Council of Ministers provided that at least one of

The default interest rate that will be applied in 2017 has been determined by the Central Bank via the Communique on the Determination of the Default Interest Rate for Late Payments for the Provision of Goods and Services which was published in the Official Gazette of 02.01.2017, numbered 29936. As per the Communique, if the default interest rate is not set forth within the contract or the related terms are deemed invalid, the interest rate shall be 10,75 per annum for late payments to the creditor for the provision of goods and services as per the Article 1530 of the Turkish

By the decision of  EMRA dated 22.12.2016, amendments were made to the Law numbered 4628 and the Regulation on Electricity Market Consumer Services to set forth the eligible consumer limit as 2400 kWH for 2017. The decision was published on the Official Gazette on 27.12.2016 and the amendment will be applied starting from 01.01.2017. Accordingly, 8.4 million subscribers shall be able to benefit from the decreased limit provided that their monthly electricity consumption is equal to at least 82 TL.

The Law on Movable Pledge for Commercial Transactions (“Law”) was published in the Official Gazette on 28.11.2016 which will repeal the current Commercial Enterprise Pledge Law numbered 1447 and be in effect as of 1 January 2017. The Law aims to extend the use of moveable pledge without delivery as a security, to widen the scope of the movables that are subject of this pledge, to ensure publicity of movable pledge and to facilitate access to financing by providing alternative methods for foreclosure of movable pledges. The Regulation which will determine the procedures and principles for various matters within the scope of