11 March, 2025 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....
03 February, 2025 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...
06 January, 2025 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...
31 December, 2024 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...
21 October, 2024 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...
16 September, 2024 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...
18 July, 2024 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...
10 June, 2024 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,...
06 June, 2024 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...
03 June, 2024 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...
23 May, 2024 How to Evaluate Social Responsibility in Advertisements? By Baran Güney Hande Hançar The Advertisement Board ("Board") made a striking decision at its meeting on January 9, 2024. The decision is based on the provision of...
12 February, 2024 Advertisement Board Issued New Principles for Preventing Misleading Loyalty Programs By Hande Hançar Baran Güney The Advertisement Board ("Board") amended the "Guideline on Advertisements Containing Price Information, Discount Sale Advertisements and...
24 January, 2024 Aggravated Scrutiny for Consumer Reviews By Baran Güney Hande Hançar Consumer reviews are of great importance in online shopping as they enable consumers to form their opinion in terms of the features and...
26 September, 2023 The Guideline on Consumer Reviews Has Been Published By Hande Hançar Baran Güney The Guideline on Consumer Reviews (“Guideline”), enacted by the Advertisement Board at the meeting dated 12.09.2023 and numbered 337, has...
18 September, 2023 Green or Simply Greenwashing? By Baran Güney Hande Hançar Advertisers frequently integrate environmental claims into their advertisements and promotions to portray their products and services as...
05 May, 2023 Advertisements Required to Include +18 Markings By Hande Hançar Baran Güney The Advertisement Board recently rendered a highly controversial decision concluding that the promotions published by a fashion company...