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Recent Changes in Personal Data Protection Legislation: Assessment of the Regulation Amendments of 17 May and 28 April
(Kişisel Verileri Koruma Mevzuatında Güncel Değişiklikler: 17 Mayıs ve 28 Nisan Tarihli Yönetmelik Değişikliklerinin Değerlendirilmesi)
Introduction
This work was written in Turkish. The summary on this page is a translation; the citation gives the original title in parentheses.
The Personal Data Protection Authority has amended the Regulation on the Erasure, Destruction or Anonymisation of Personal Data of 28 October 2017 and the Regulation on the Data Controllers’ Registry of 30 December 2017, and the regulations containing these amendments were published in Official Gazette No. 30758 of 28 April 2019.
The second development in personal data protection legislation was published in Official Gazette No. 30777 of 17 May 2019. Here the Authority introduced the Regulation on Disciplinary Superiors of the Personal Data Protection Authority and amended the Regulation on the Working Procedures and Principles of the Personal Data Protection Board. In this article I will consider what these amendments mean and what conveniences or difficulties they will bring in practice.
Related publications
Dülger, Murat Volkan / Gümüş, Gülçin, Personal Data Protection Law (Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Hukuku), 4th ed., Seçkin Publishing, Ankara, 2026.
Dülger, Murat Volkan, Legislation on Information Technology, Personal Data Protection and Internet Communication (Bilişim, Kişisel Verilerin Korunması ve İnternet İletişimi Mevzuatı), 7th ed., Seçkin Publishing, Ankara, 2021.
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Dülger, Murat Volkan, “Lawyers' Obligations under the KVKK in the Light of the Board's Decisions” (Kurul Kararları Işığında Avukatların KVKK Yükümlülükleri), conference presentation, 2025.
Dülger, Murat Volkan / Gümüş, Gülçin, “The Right to Be Forgotten”, Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Yadigar İzmirli (Prof. Dr. Yadigar İzmirli'ye Armağan), 2024.