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A Look at Brand Enforcement During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Turkey’s first official diagnosis of COVID-19 was announced on March 11 2020. Since then, the country has experienced lockdowns, quarantines, travel bans and limited access to public services at various levels, depending on the progress of the pandemic. There were months where the legal and administrative bodies’ effectiveness was inversely proportional with the curve of pandemic, which affected all governmental agencies. Incidentally, brand enforcement activities were also… »

Constitutional Court’s Recent Decision Regarding Inspection on Employee E-mails

Constitutional Court’s decision of 12 January 2021 concerning the application no. 2018/31036[1] discusses, once again, employer inspection on employees’ corporate e-mail accounts and the terminations relying on the collected correspondences, in scope of the right to protection of personal data and freedom of communication. In the said decision, the Constitutional Court found no violation as to the right to protection of personal data and freedom of communication, since the… »

Compensation Claims Arising out of Distribution Agreements under Turkish Law

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Introduction As a sui generis agreement under Turkish law, distribution agreement mainly contains the characteristics of a sales and purchase agreement; however, it also differs from the same since the distributor's role is not limited to simply purchasing the products from the supplier/principal and selling them to customers or end-users. Instead, in a distribution agreement, the distributor is incorporated into the distribution chain of the supplier with having the right… »

List of Compassionate Use Programs Has Been Published

Compassionate Use Programs are designed for patients who have a serious or urgent, life-threatening disease whose treatment has been unsuccessful with available medicinal products licensed by the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency (“Agency”) in Turkey and who cannot be included in the clinical trials on this subject. The Compassionate Use Program aims to provide the drug, which is not licensed in Turkey, but licensed or not in other countries, by the company that… »

Dealing With Social Media Influencers

Based on statistics of a global research Turkey is among the 15 countries with the longest time of both daily internet usage and social media usage. In 2021 there were 54 million social media users in Turkey; equal to 64 percent of the country's population. Influencer marketing through social media influencers has achieved giant growth in the advertising sector. Brands, including global and local ones, cooperate with social media influencers to advertising their brands… »

Advertising Bans on Social Network Providers in Turkey

The law amending the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Internet Broadcasts and Prevention of Crimes Committed through Such Broadcasts ("Internet Law") known as Social Media Law in Turkey and the implementing regulation introduced new provisions and obligations regarding social network providers and their obligations in the second half of 2020. As per the cited amendments "Social Network Provider" was legally defined as real or legal persons that enable users to create, view… »

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