Biometric Attendance Tracking Is Now Unlawful in Türkiye: Inside KVKK Principle Decision 2026/921
Türkiye’s Personal Data Protection Board (Principle Decision 2026/921) has ruled that processing employees’ biometric data for attendance tracking is unlawful — even with explicit consent. Why consent no longer saves it, what the proportionality test means, and the steps employers must take now.
Read more →Why Founders Flip Up: The Anatomy of a Delaware/Cayman Flip
Almost every Turkey-resident startup founder pursuing a US round eventually asks the same question: do we flip up? This piece walks through why founders flip, the six structural pressures, and the eight phases of the flip — plus when NOT to flip.
Read more →VERBIS Registration Deadline Extended to 5 June 2026
VERBIS Registration Deadline Extended to 5 June 2026: What Companies Newly Captured by 2025 Balance-Sheet Thresholds Need to Know In a public announcement, the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) confirmed that the registration and notification deadline for corporate-tax-paying legal entities that fall under the Data Controllers’ Registry (VERBİS) obligation by reason of their 2025 annual …
Read more →Turkey Crypto Licences Requirements Has Published
The latest updates from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey (SPK) have introduced significant changes for “Crypto Asset Trading Platforms,” signaling a shift in how the crypto industry will operate in Turkey. Minimum Capital Requirements One of the most notable changes is the introduction of a minimum paid-in capital requirement of 50,000,000 TL for Crypto …
Read more →SPK Principle Decisions and Turkey’s Crypto Ecosystem — CoinDesk Türkiye Column
Our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu contributed a column to CoinDesk Türkiye assessing how the Capital Markets Board (SPK)’s principle decisions are reshaping Turkey’s crypto ecosystem. The central thesis of the piece was clear: the secondary regulation and SPK principle decisions issued after the crypto-asset law are redesigning the sector not only at the level …
Read more →Turkey’s Crypto Assets Bill in Parliament – What Awaits Us?
Turkey is about to enact its much-anticipated crypto law, but will this be enough to satisfy the sector’s concerns and get the country off of the FATF’s grey list? E. Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu & Alp Mete Şirin The increasing importance of crypto assets globally has prompted Turkey to take action. The long-awaited “Crypto Assets Law” has …
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