AI deployment has moved past the experimentation phase. Foundation models power customer-facing products, agentic systems take autonomous actions, and algorithmic decision-making affects employment, credit, and access decisions. The legal questions follow: who owns training data, who bears liability when output misleads, how to design model governance that satisfies multiple jurisdictions at once. Vircon Legal advises AI builders, platform operators, and enterprise adopters on the law that frames this work.
Our AI law practice covers:
- Foundation model and product development: training data licensing, output IP allocation, derivative work treatment
- EU AI Act compliance for Turkish companies serving European users: risk classification, conformity assessment, transparency obligations
- Algorithmic decision-making frameworks: explainability requirements, human-in-the-loop design, anti-discrimination audits
- AI-specific terms of use, acceptable use policies, and output disclaimer frameworks
- Generative AI in commercial contracts: vendor AI clauses, customer indemnification, output liability allocation
- Training data and IP: copyright, database rights, web scraping considerations, model card disclosures
- Synthetic media governance: voice cloning, deepfake disclosure, consent frameworks
- Intersection with data privacy: automated decision-making rights, profiling notices, DPIA for AI systems
We advise Turkish AI startups raising international rounds, foreign AI companies onboarding Turkish enterprise customers, and platform operators integrating LLM-powered features into existing products. Our work integrates with technology law, SaaS contracting, and IP practices — because AI questions rarely sit in just one bucket.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a dedicated AI law in Türkiye?
Not yet. AI systems are governed through existing regimes — KVKK for profiling and automated decisions, sectoral rules, consumer and liability law — while a draft AI law and a national AI strategy signal the direction. Companies building for the EU market should design to the EU AI Act now rather than retrofit later.
Does the EU AI Act apply to Turkish companies?
Yes, if you place an AI system on the EU market or its output is used in the EU — the Act applies extraterritorially. Obligations scale with risk class: prohibited practices, high-risk system requirements (risk management, data governance, human oversight, CE-style conformity), transparency duties, and the general-purpose model regime.
Who is liable when an AI system causes harm?
There is no AI-specific liability statute in Türkiye, so general contract and tort principles under the Code of Obligations apply, with product-liability reasoning extending to software in practice. The practical defence is contractual: clear allocation between developer, deployer, and customer, documented human oversight, and logging that lets you reconstruct what the system did.