# Türkiye

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Türkiye
- **ISO code**: TR
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Asia / Western Asia

## In brief

Türkiye has 2 recorded AI policy instruments, 1 of them binding. National AI strategy 2021–2025 as policy; draft AI law pending in parliament; KVKK AI guidance. Regulators include Cumhurbaşkanlığı Dijital Dönüşüm Ofisi (Digital Transformation Office), Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu (KVKK).

## Overview

Türkiye adopted its National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2021–2025 in August 2021 (Digital Transformation Office of the Presidency and Ministry of Industry and Technology) and updated the action plan for 2024–2025. A draft Artificial Intelligence Law was submitted to the Grand National Assembly in June 2024 but has not been enacted; the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) has issued AI recommendations. Türkiye signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy 2021–2025 as policy; draft AI law pending in parliament; KVKK AI guidance.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: Draft Artificial Intelligence Law (2024). Strategy or guidance: National AI Strategy 2021–2025.

## Regulators

- Cumhurbaşkanlığı Dijital Dönüşüm Ofisi (Digital Transformation Office) — National AI strategy coordination — https://cbddo.gov.tr/en/
- Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu (KVKK) — Data-protection authority; AI recommendations — https://www.kvkk.gov.tr/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

## Official sources

- National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2021–2025 — Digital Transformation Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye — https://cbddo.gov.tr/en/nais/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (2)

- **Ulusal Yapay Zekâ Stratejisi 2021–2025 (National Artificial Intelligence Strategy)** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/turkiye-national-ai-strategy-2021-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/turkiye-national-ai-strategy-2021-2025.md
- **Yapay Zekâ Kanunu Teklifi (Artificial Intelligence Law proposal submitted to the Grand National Assembly, June 2024)** — Bill, Proposed, binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/turkiye-draft-artificial-intelligence-law-2024
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/turkiye-draft-artificial-intelligence-law-2024.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/turkiye
- **Official source**: https://cbddo.gov.tr/en/nais/
- **Source document**: National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2021–2025
- **Published by**: Digital Transformation Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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