1/26/2026 6:23:10 PM Key Trends in Advertisement Board Decisions in 2025 By Baran Güney As a result of the effective supervision carried out by the Advertisement Board (“Board”) in 2025, a significant number of guiding...
3/11/2025 3:54:04 PM Join Us in Turkey for an Advertising Seminar! By Stacy Bess The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance is sponsoring an advertising seminar which will take place on April 3, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey....
12/6/2022 3:21:56 PM You're Invited: GALA's Annual "Global Advertising Law Year in Review" By Stacy Bess The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance is sponsoring its annual "Global Advertising Law Year in Review" webinar, which will be held on...
7/7/2025 10:02:32 PM Use of Personal Data in Marketing and the Approach of the Advertising Board By Baran Güney The Advertising Board (“Board”) works to raise awareness about targeted advertising and deceptive commercial design practices, monitor...
11/25/2025 9:01:33 PM Surprise Boxes: Mystery or Risk for Consumers? By Hande Hançar Baran Güney In recent years, the concept of “mystery boxes” or “surprise boxes” has become increasingly popular, taking a central place in the...
4/8/2025 2:57:56 PM Eco-Friendly or Eco-Fiction? By Baran Güney The Advertisement Board (“Board”) reviewed numerous advertisements containing claims related to the environment in accordance with the...
2/3/2025 1:48:29 PM Data Protection in Advertisements By Baran Güney The Advertisement Board (“Board”), at the meeting dated 12 March 2024 and numbered 343, examined websites that require membership as a...
6/11/2021 3:07:33 PM Influencer Marketing Practices in Turkey By Baran Güney The Guideline on Commercial Advertisement and Unfair Commercial Practices Conducted by Social Media Influencers (“Guideline”), which was...
1/6/2025 3:29:14 PM How to Become a Responsible Influencer? By Hande Hançar Baran Güney As of January 2024, there are 57.50 million social media users in Turkey[1], and digital platforms hold the largest share of advertising...
12/31/2024 11:37:32 PM Is It Really Number One of Türkiye? By Hande Hançar Baran Güney Article 8 of the Regulation on Commercial Advertisement and Unfair Commercial Practices ("Regulation") permits comparative advertisements...
10/21/2024 1:28:23 PM Advertisement Board: Use of Competitors' Trademarks as Keywords Leads to Unfair Competition By Hande Hançar Baran Güney Google Adwords / Google Ads, a type of commercial advertising that has emerged as a result of technological developments, allows...
9/16/2024 8:35:46 PM Advertisement Board is Again Able to Block Access By Hande Hançar Baran Güney Turkish Constitutional Court (“Court”) annulled the paragraph 12 of Article 77 of the Consumer Protection Law, which granted the...
7/18/2024 2:20:25 PM New Rules for Content Ratings in Television Programs By Hande Hançar Baran Güney Amendments to the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles of Media Services ("Regulation") introduced new rules regarding the content...
6/10/2024 3:03:16 PM Alcoholic Beverage Advertisements through Alibi Branding By Hande Hançar Baran Güney Any advertising of alcohol products is banned in any kind of media. This ban includes broadcasts on TV and radio, ads in the cinema,...
6/3/2024 6:37:10 PM Does Artificial Intelligence Tell the Truth? By Hande Hançar Baran Güney Being aware of the fact that technological developments have diversified the ways in which commercial advertisements are created and...
6/6/2024 10:55:44 PM Dark Patterns on the Advertisement Board's Agenda By Hande Hançar Baran Güney Unfair commercial practices, also known as the "dark patterns" in the world, have entered the agenda of the Advertisement Board. Dark...