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The Right to Be Forgotten: The General Report—Congress of the International Society of Comparative Law, Fukuoka, July 2018 Read chapter Read first chapter

2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A Turkish Law Perspective on the “Right to Be Forgotten”

Authors : Kadir Berk Kapancı, Meliha Sermin Paksoy

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Abstract

Since the rule is changed from easily forget to easily remember thanks to the digital Internet platforms, the question if there should be a right to be forgotten consecrated to individuals has become a frequently asked question with—of course—no “one correct answer” in different legal systems all around the world. Turkish legal practice has also encountered different cases where the question if a right to be forgotten should be recognized/accorded or not. Thus, the concept itself and discussions thereon prove to be heated nowadays among legal scholars. Accordingly, this article mainly aims to legally analyze the newly emerging concept “the right to be forgotten” and its potential practical impacts to the existing or future Internet technologies, in light of the Turkish legislations and existing case law.

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Footnotes
1
Develioğlu (2017), p. 93; Korkmazer (2016), p. 127; Akkurt (2018), p. 85; Bozkurt (2014), p. 97; Karan (2018), p. 4220.
 
2
See Sect. 6.2 below.
 
3
Sözüer (2017), p. 167; Akkurt (2016), p. 2613; Sağlam (2017), p. 694.
 
4
Aksoy (2008), p. 241; Önok (2017), p. 159; Şerefoğlu Henkoğlu (2017), p. 193; Akkurt (2016), pp. 2614–2615; Akkurt (2018), p. 90; Çelik (2017), pp. 396–397.
 
5
Akkurt (2018), p. 85; Elmalıca (2016), p. 1624; Bozkurt (2014), p. 97; Karan (2018), p. 4221.
 
6
Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.
 
7
Some turkish scholars argue that this provision regulates the right to be forgotten, although the name of it is not directly mentioned (See Çırak 2018, p. 164; Duman 2017, p. 235; Bozkurt Yüksel 2016, pp. 36–37). According to the opposing view, the said provision rather foresees a right to erasure which is more different than the former (See Develioğlu 2017, p. 93; Sözüer 2017, pp. 38 et seq.).
 
8
Sözüer (2017), pp. 181–182; Karan (2018), p. 4221.
 
9
See also Develioğlu (2017), p. 152 et seq. for more detailed information with regard thereof.
 
10
Şerefoğlu Henkoğlu (2017), p. 196; Küpeli (2016), p. 232; Akkurt (2016), p. 2613; Çelik (2017), p. 395; Sağlam (2017), p. 694; Nair and Balta (2017), p. 122; Sözüer (2017), p. 164 et seq.; Karan (2018), p. 4222; Ahi (2014), Bozkurt Yüksel (2016), p. 36; Sumer (2016), p. 777.
 
11
Karan (2018), pp. 4221–4222.
 
12
Develioğlu (2017), pp. 135–136; Sağlam (2017), p. 698.
 
13
Develioğlu (2017), p. 134.
 
14
Develioğlu (2017), p. 135; Sağlam (2017), p. 698.
 
15
Küpeli (2016), p. 233.
 
16
See Sect. 6.2 below.
 
17
Küpeli (2016), p. 233; Şerefoğlu Henkoğlu (2017), p. 196; Nair and Balta (2017), p. 122; Develioğlu (2017), p. 125; Sağlam (2017), p. 695; Ahi (2014), Bozkurt Yüksel (2016), p. 36.
 
18
Küpeli (2016), p. 234; Nair and Balta (2017), p. 122; Karan (2018), p. 4221.
 
19
Develioğlu (2017), pp. 130–134.
 
20
Akgül (2016), p. 22; Yılmaz (2018), p. 119; Ocak (2018), p. 520; Akkurt (2016), p. 2617 et seq.; Akkurt (2018), p. 88; Çırak (2018), p. 170; Sözüer (2017), p. 71 et seq.; Karan (2018), p. 4241; Duman (2017), p. 239.
 
21
Ocak (2018), p. 520.
 
22
Yavuz (2016), pp. 135–136; Ahi (2014), Akkurt (2016), p. 2617 et seq.
 
23
See Sect. 6.1 below.
 
24
Turkish Data Protection Authority (2018) https://​www.​kvkk.​gov.​tr/​Icerik/​4214/​Kurul-Kararlari. Accessed 1 Nov 2018.
 
26
See References.
 
27
For a detailed information about these decisions please see Sect. 6 below.
 
28
Akgül (2016), p. 35; Şerefoğlu Henkoğlu (2017), p. 199; Yılmaz (2018), p. 119; Korkmazer (2016), p. 126; Sumer (2016), p. 790.
 
29
Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), M. C. Gonzalez, http://​curia.​europa.​eu/​juris/​document/​document_​print.​jsf?​doclang=​EN&​docid=​152065.
 
30
See for instance Ocak (2018), p. 521; Ahi (2014).
 
31
See Sect. 6.1 below.
 
32
See also Çelik (2017), p. 402.
 
33
See also Çelik (2017), p. 401; Çırak (2018), pp. 183–184; Ocak (2018), p. 518; Sözüer (2017), p. 199.
 
34
Ocak (2018), p. 520.
 
35
The term “indirect recognition” indicates how the court reacts towards the right to be forgotten in Internet. In this case, court recognizes plaintiff’s right to be forgotten in printed (published) materials. By doing so, it indirectly recognizes as well the right to be forgotten in Internet.
 
36
Çelik (2017), p. 400; Elmalıca (2016), p. 1629; Ocak (2018), p. 517; Sumer (2016), p. 775.
 
37
Yavuz (2016), p. 99; Ocak (2018), pp. 517–518; Çırak (2018), p. 180; Elmalıca (2016), p. 1629.
 
38
For an embracing view of this last approach in the Turkish legal doctrine see Akgül (2016), p. 34; Küpeli (2016), p. 236; Bozkurt Yüksel (2016), p. 37; Sözüer (2017), p. 188; Sumer (2016), p. 790.
 
39
Yavuz (2016), p. 99; Duman (2017), p. 235; Sumer (2016), p. 791.
 
40
See Sect. 5 above.
 
41
Yılmaz (2018), p. 120.
 
42
Elmalıca (2016), p. 1621; Önok (2017), pp. 173–174; Sözüer (2017), p. 138 et seq.
 
43
For a similar criticism see Önok (2017), p. 175; Laçin (2014), p. 406 et seq.; Şerefoğlu Henkoğlu (2017), p. 206.
 
44
See and compare Yılmaz (2018), p. 119; Sözüer (2017), p. 139; Duman (2017), p. 238.
 
45
Yavuz (2016), pp. 177–178; Önok (2017), p. 174; Sözüer (2017), p. 139.
 
46
See also Yavuz (2016), p. 179; Elmalıca (2016), p. 1621; Gülener (2012), p. 235; Sözüer (2017), p. 139.
 
47
See also Elmalıca (2016), p. 1630; Sözüer (2017), p. 141.
 
48
See and compare Yavuz (2016), pp. 149–150; The Advisory Council to Google on the Right to be Forgotten (2015), p. 21.
 
49
Yavuz (2016), p. 180.
 
50
See also Elmalıca (2016), p. 1621; Bozkurt Yüksel (2016), p. 38.
 
51
See also Gülener (2012), p. 226 et seq.
 
52
Yavuz (2016), p. 179.
 
53
Yavuz (2016), p. 181; The Advisory Council to Google on the Right to be Forgotten (2015), p. 35.
 
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Metadata
Title
A Turkish Law Perspective on the “Right to Be Forgotten”
Authors
Kadir Berk Kapancı
Meliha Sermin Paksoy
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
The Right To Be Forgotten

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-33511-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-33512-0

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33512-0_11