On 03.01.2025, the Personal Data Protection Authority of Türkiye (“Authority”) published on its website the amounts of the Administrative Fines regulated in Article 18 of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“Law No 6698”) increased by the revaluation rate determined and announced for the years 2017-2025 in accordance with the provisions of the seventh paragraph of Article 17 of the Misdemeanor Law No. 5326, effective from the beginning of each calendar year, in accordance with the provisions of the repeated Article 298 of the Tax Procedure Law No. 213 for that year.
The administrative fine amounts increased according to the 43.93% revaluation rate for 2025 are as follows, effective from 01.01.2025:
| The Contradicted Article of Law | 2025 Fine Amounts |
| Failure to fulfill the obligation of disclosure
(Art. 10 of the Law No 6698) |
68.083TL to 1.362.021TL |
| Failure to fulfill the obligations regarding data security (Art. 12 of the Law No 6698) | 204.285TL to 13.620.402TL |
| Failure to fulfill the decisions of the Board (Art. 15 of the Law No 6698) | 340.476TL to 13.620.402TL |
| Violation of the obligation to register and notify the Data Controllers Registry (Art. 16 of the Law No 6698) | 272.380TL to 13.620.402TL |
| Failure to fulfill the notification obligation (Art. 9/5 of the Law No 6698) | 71.965TL to 1.439.300TL |
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