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In 2026, administrative fines under Türkiye's KVKK range from 85,437 TL to 17,092,242 TL. We map each fine to the technical gap that triggers it and the control that closes it.
If your company email or files are hosted in a data centre outside Turkey, the KVKK's cross-border transfer rules apply to you. The standard-contract regime introduced in 2024, the cloud service inventory, and the concrete IT-side steps — in plain language.
Europe's NIS2 directive obliges in-scope companies to secure their supply chains too. Turkish SMBs selling into the EU are now receiving security questionnaires and contract clauses — here is what will be asked, and how to be ready before it arrives.
Old computers gathering dust in the store room are not assets — they are open filing cabinets with customer data on their disks. Why formatting is not enough, the right destruction method per disk type, the record-keeping, and the e-waste handover, step by step.
Data loss prevention is assumed to be an expensive enterprise product; yet the office suite most SMBs already pay for ships with built-in DLP rules. Stop ID numbers, IBANs and card numbers leaking out by email with a three-stage plan — watch first, then warn, block last.
Turkey's VERBIS registration calendar has shifted more than once, and 2026 brought another update: the deadline for controllers newly in scope was extended to 5 June 2026. Who the extension covers, what to do if you missed it, and the 30-day rule that applies when your obligation starts later.
The VERBIS application itself takes half a day; what stalls companies for months is walking up to the form without the information it asks for. The five steps from application to declaration, what each one requires, and the declaration mistakes that turn a registry entry into a liability.
VERBIS is Turkey's public registry of data controllers under the KVKK — and registration is not optional once you cross the thresholds. Employee count, balance-sheet size, sensitive-data processing and the often-missed rule for foreign companies operating in Turkey, explained in one guide.
The Personal Data Protection Law affects most IT processes. If technical and administrative measures are not translated into concrete controls, non-compliance risk persists. This article offers a practical 12-item IT checklist for SMEs.
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