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Tech & Innovation·August 9, 2026·1 min read

Rights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law, which took effect in July, gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services operating in the country

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When a cybersecurity law centralizes control over online services in the presidency, every platform operating in that jurisdiction inherits political risk as an operational variable, not an edge case. If you run infra, payments, or data services that touch Turkey, treat compliance, takedown, and data-access demands as board-level exposure and scenario-plan for abrupt policy shifts.