Regulatory compliance — an institutional reflex ahead of any penalty risk.
Compliance advisory builds programmes that bring your company into line with KVKK/GDPR, anti-corruption, and sector-specific regulations. Through internal audit, policy and training, we turn compliance into a lasting corporate culture.
Compliance is about culture, not penalties
Compliance means treating regulatory conformity not as a one-off check but as a reflex built into the company's daily operations. The aim is to manage risk structurally, before any sanction arises.
Across data protection, anti-corruption and sectoral regulation — chief among them Law No. 6698 (the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law, KVKK) and the GDPR — we design compliance programmes that are tailored to your company, workable and auditable.
When Does This Apply?
The regulatory areas our compliance service typically covers.
Data Protection Compliance
Meeting information-notice, explicit-consent, data-inventory and VERBİS obligations under the KVKK and the GDPR.
Ethics & Policy
Establishing and implementing anti-bribery and anti-corruption, conflict-of-interest and ethical-conduct policies.
Sectoral Regulation
Achieving and monitoring compliance with legislation and regulatory-authority requirements specific to your sector, including advertising, pricing and campaign oversight in e-commerce (Advertising Board practice).
How Does the Process Work?
The three stages we follow in building and maintaining a compliance programme.
01 · Compliance Audit
We assess where the company currently stands against the relevant legislation and identify non-compliances and priority risk areas.
02 · Programme Setup
We design and implement policies, procedures and internal control mechanisms tailored to your company.
03 · Monitoring & Training
We monitor the compliance programme on a regular basis and, through employee training, turn compliance into a lasting corporate culture.
A compliance approach grounded in both legal systems
Companies operating across borders must comply with both Turkish and European legislation at once. On matters such as managing KVKK and GDPR together, working with a team that knows both systems makes compliance both robust and efficient.
- Consistent, joined-up management of KVKK and GDPR compliance
- Practicable policies and procedures tailored to your company
- Establishment of anti-corruption and ethics compliance programmes
- Internal audit, employee training and awareness initiatives
- Multilingual compliance documentation in Turkish, German and English
Specialised Sub-Services
Compliance — the focused applications of this service for particular needs.
LkSG / CSDDD Compliance Programme
Meet customer demands arising from the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) and the EU due-diligence directive (CSDDD) in a single programme — with risk analysis, a policy set, a grievance mechanism, and audit readiness.
Explore →Grievance Mechanism & Whistleblowing
Setting up and operating internal reporting channels that preserve confidentiality and genuinely work, in line with LkSG and EU Whistleblower Directive expectations — and the legal management of incoming reports.
Explore →CSRD & Sustainability Reporting
The legal framework for reporting and data requests arising from CSRD/ESRS: double materiality, value-chain data, customer questionnaires, and the legal risks of disclosures.
Explore →KVKK / GDPR Compliance Programme
Compliance with the Turkish and EU data protection regimes in a single framework: inventory, policy and document set, VERBİS, cookies, marketing consents, and an audit-ready accountability file.
Explore →Cross-Border Data Transfer
The lawful architecture of intra-group and supplier data flows, using KVKK's current transfer regime (standard contract, binding corporate rules, undertaking) and GDPR safeguards.
Explore →Data Breach & Cyber Incident Response
Legal command centre at the moment of breach: the 72-hour notification regime, management of KVKK/GDPR and contractual notifications, evidence preservation, communications, and defence before the Board.
Explore →Marketplace & Platform Compliance
Seller-account compliance on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and local marketplaces: the KYBC verification file, listing rules, account-suspension appeals, and P2B/DSA rights.
Explore →German Market & Regulatory Compliance
A regulatory checklist for the German and EU market: GPSR product safety and the EU responsible person, packaging/EPR registrations (LUCID), consumer rules, and sector-specific authorisations managed in a single programme.
Explore →Data Act Compliance
EU Data Act scope analysis and compliance: designing access to connected-product data, sharing processes, contract revision and cloud-switching rules.
Explore →Information Security Policies & ISMS Law
The legal framework of the ISMS (ISO 27001) and information security policies: access regime, employee obligations, supplier requirements and legislation mapping.
Explore →Vertical Agreements & Competition Compliance
Competition-law compliance in distribution and supply agreements: penalty-free design of resale-price, territory, and internet-sales restrictions.
Explore →Other Services in Legal Advisory
When needed, the same team can seamlessly extend its work to our other solutions in this area.
Related Areas & Legislation
The focus areas, practice areas, desks and legislation connected with this service.
Our Matters in This Service
The anonymised examples of our work that relate to this service.
Uninterrupted legal counsel for a multinational supplier
Retainer-based support across day-to-day commercial operations, contract management and compliance processes.
Review the matter →ESG & ComplianceSupply chain due diligence (LkSG) compliance programme
Risk assessment and compliance architecture for a Turkish supplier network under the German LkSG.
Review the matter →Market AccessEstablishing a distribution network in Türkiye
Designing a market entry strategy, distributorship agreements and competition compliance.
Review the matter →The Team Delivering This Service
With our multilingual team of lawyers, well-versed in Turkish and German law, we are by your side.
Related Publications
Fresh perspectives and guides from the Knowledge Centre.
Yes. We adapt group policies — the code of conduct, the gifts and benefits policy, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, the whistleblowing hotline — to Turkish legislation and to local business practice. The anti-bribery part is aligned with the bribery and abuse-of-office provisions of the Turkish Penal Code (No. 5237); the hotline is aligned with the Personal Data Protection Law (No. 6698), both for the personal data…
Yes, when it is built to scale. The point of a compliance programme is not to generate bureaucracy but to manage the risks the company is actually exposed to. For an SME, instead of the comprehensive structures large companies run, a lean set-up is usually enough: a few critical policies, short and practical training, and one clear channel for reports and complaints.There is a point that decides the question, though…
Stop the breach, preserve the relevant evidence — emails, logs, documents — without altering any of it, and make no formal statement before you have a legal assessment. Then open an internal investigation with a defined scope, and work out which notification duties the nature of the incident actually triggers.Those duties are specific rather than general. If it is a personal data breach, notification to the Board an…
In any announcement of a discounted sale the reference price must be the lowest price applied in the 30 days before the discount, and the percentage has to be calculated from that figure. In Türkiye the rule comes from the Law on Consumer Protection (No. 6502) and the Regulation on Discounted Sales; the EU applies a comparable “lowest price in 30 days” rule introduced by the Omnibus Directive.The point of it is to s…
A significant portion of compliance violations stem not from bad faith but from a lack of awareness. Employees who are informed about data protection, codes of ethics, and reporting obligations reduce risk at its source. For this reason, we regard regular training and awareness initiatives as an indispensable part of a sustainable compliance culture.
The cost of non-compliance is often far higher than the cost of a compliance programme. KVKK (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law) and similar regulations can result in administrative fines, reputational damage and harm to commercial relationships. A well-designed compliance programme manages these risks in advance and protects your company both legally and commercially.
Companies that operate in Türkiye and process the data of individuals in Europe may be subject to both KVKK (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law) and GDPR. Although the two regulations are similar in many respects, they also have differences. We map out the overlapping and diverging obligations together, ensuring compliance with both sets of legislation within a single, consistent programme.
Compliance is not a one-off goal but a process that requires continuity. Legislation changes, the company's operations expand and new risks emerge. For this reason, we review the programme at regular intervals and adapt it to current regulations and to your company's evolving needs.
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