The regulation of Internet intermediaries under Turkish law: Is there a delicate balance between rights and obligations?

This article examines the regulation of Internet intermediaries under the Turkish law and analyses the legal, institutional and policy framework of the Internet intermediaries in Turkey. The article maps out, in the widest context, the legal, criminal and administrative liabilities of Internet intermediaries and then focuses on data retention and data disclosure requirements, online surveillance, and voluntary and mandatory filtering requirements. It also considers certain practices like that of deep packet inspection, the role of intermediaries in preventing the diffusion of offensive content or the perpetration of copyright infringement, the enforcement of data subjects' rights, the implementation of notice-and-takedown procedures, and their liabilities for providing information to public bodies and law enforcement agencies. After setting the context, the main objective of this article is to explore the delicate balance between the rights and the obligations of Internet intermediaries under Turkish law.