Turkey: Trade Secrets

An employment relationship is, by its nature, a continuous legal relationship based on an element of trust between the parties. During the term of the employment contract, the employee is under an obligation to protect the employer’s interests, act in accordance with the duty of loyalty, and refrain from competing with the employer. However, upon termination of the employment contract, the employee’s freedom to work and right to freely determine his or her economic future come into play.

A marketing manager uploads a client list to ChatGPT to segment the database. An HR specialist uses AI to summarize candidate CVs. A finance team member tasks generative AI with drafting a quarterly presentation.

The "Draft Law on the Protection of Trade Secrets" ("Draft Law") has been published on the official website of the Ministry of Trade of Türkiye.

The Competition Authority has published the Communiqué on the Regulation of the Right of Access to Files and the Protection of Trade Secrets (Communiqué No: 2010/3 in Circular No: 2025/3) in the Official Gazette No 33037, dated 4 October 2025.

Under Turkish law, software is protected within the scope of the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works No. 5846 ("Copyright Law")...

The prevailing legal doctrine holds that all digital products containing data—particularly software—acquire the nature of goods when they are recorded on physical carriers such as CDs, portable storage devices, or computer memory

Ticari işletmeler, işletme değerlerinin belirlenmesinde ve ekonomik hayatta rekabet gücünün artmasında önem arz eden bilgilerin rakiplerinin eline geçmesini önlemek amacıyla koruma tedbirleri almaktadır.

On 23 February 2022, the European Commission ("Commission") publicized the draft Data Act as part of the European Data Strategy.

Avrupa Komisyonu ("Komisyon"), 23 Şubat 2022'de, Avrupa Veri Stratejisi'nin bir parçası olarak, Veri Yasası taslağını kamuyla paylaşmıştı. Söz konusu gelişmeleri takiben Avrupa Konseyi ("Konsey")...