Duty LXD-6299
Serves under-18s, in Turkey
Radio and Television Broadcasting Law, On-Demand Service Minor Protectionsince 3 lines
Law No. 6112 (Radio and Television Broadcasting Law), Art. 8/3 · Read the law's page
- Applies to an on-demand broadcasting service provider, meaning an audiovisual streaming or video-on-demand service within the Radio and Television Supreme Council's licensing jurisdiction.
- Ensure that a broadcast service of a nature that could adversely affect the physical, mental or moral development of children and young people is presented in a way that they would not normally hear or see under ordinary conditions (Article 8(3)).
- You need not follow Article 8(2)'s bar on broadcasting such content during time periods children could watch, even with a protective symbol (strengthened by Law No. 7077 in 2018): it governs linear radio and television broadcasting, not on-demand services.
Cybersecurity Law, Reporting and Cooperation Dutiessince 4 lines
Law No. 7545 (), Art. 7 · Read the law's page
- This binds any entity that uses information systems to provide services, collect data, or process data within the Cybersecurity Law's own broad scope, with no revenue or user threshold gating this particular duty; a separate, narrower certification and export-approval duty binds only cybersecurity product and service vendors and is not raised here.
- Report a detected vulnerability or cyber incident in the area of service provided to the Cybersecurity Directorate without delay; the Law's own text sets no numeric reporting clock.
- Provide the Cybersecurity Directorate promptly with any data, information, document, hardware, software, or other contribution it requests in connection with its duties.
- Where cybersecurity products, systems, or services are procured for use in a public institution or in critical infrastructure, source them only from a provider the Directorate has certified or authorized.
Law on Regulation of Internet Publications, Game Platforms' Age Rating and Parental Controlssince 5 lines
Law No. 5651, Ek Madde 5, added by Law No. 7578 () · Read the law's page
- Applies to a game platform; the representative duty applies to a platform based abroad with more than 100,000 daily accesses from Turkey (Additional Article 5(1)-(2)). In force since , six months after Law No. 7578 was published on (Article 27(1)(a)).
- Do not offer a game that has not been rated under the prescribed procedure, unless you rate it at the highest age criterion, and remove content that has not been rated properly (Additional Article 5(1)).
- If you are a game platform based abroad with more than 100,000 daily accesses from Turkey, appoint a natural or legal person as your representative in Turkey, tell the Authority the representative's details, and show the representative's contact details on your website where they can be seen and reached easily (Additional Article 5(2)).
- Provide clear, understandable and easy-to-use parental control tools that let a parent control the account settings and make purchases, rentals and paid memberships subject to the parent's permission or approval (Additional Article 5(3)).
- Give the Authority the information and documents it requests about your compliance, including your corporate structure, information systems and data processing mechanisms, immediately and within a period of no more than fifteen days that it sets (Additional Article 5(4)).