Bill on Amendments to Certain Laws (artificial intelligence provisions in the Turkish Penal Code and other laws, 2/3358)

Summary

Private member's bill amending the Penal Code and Laws No. 5651 (internet), 6698 (data protection), 5809 (e-communications) and 7545 (cybersecurity). It makes a user who directs an AI system to a criminal act its perpetrator; requires removal or blocking within six hours of AI content that violates personality rights, threatens public security or is a deepfake; mandates a non-removable 'Produced by Artificial Intelligence' label on deepfakes (fines TRY 500,000-5 million); and obliges providers to ensure transparency and auditability of training data, content verification, hallucination controls and human-approved oversight in high-risk uses. ICT regulator BTK gets urgent blocking powers.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Turkish text.

Safety topics

Status notes

Signed by the sponsor on 23 July 2025, received by the TBMM on 7 November 2025 and registered on 10 November 2025 as Esas No. 2/3358, with the Industry, Trade, Energy, Natural Resources, Information and Technology Committee as lead committee and the Justice and Digital Media committees as secondary committees. The cover letter describes it as a bill amending Turkish Penal Code No. 5237 and certain laws. It has 11 articles and would enter into force on publication. Article 1 adds a definition of AI systems to Law No. 5651. It also requires datasets used in AI applications to respect anonymity, non-discrimination and legitimacy, treating discriminatory datasets as a data-security breach, raises the penalty for a developer whose system's design or training enabled the offence by half, and adds insult, threat and crimes against humanity to the offences for which internet content is removed or blocked.

Sources

Open the official source https://cdn.tbmm.gov.tr/KKBSPublicFile/D28/Y4/T2/WebOnergeMetni/5b8d2dc6-9dee-41e8-98c6-ee5b28ca9608.pdf

Secondary source: https://www.morogluarseven.com/insights/ma-gazette-en/ma-gazette-edition-156-18-december-2025-en/draft-law-proposing-amendments-to-certain-laws-regarding-artificial-intelligence-submitted-to-the-turkish-grand-national-assembly/

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-14notes: The bill text (signed 23 July 2025) bears the TBMM registry stamps '07 Kasım 202 → Signed by the sponsor on 23 July 2025, received by the TBMM on 7 November 2025 a — the tracker listing, the September 2025 publicity and the remark that no committee report was found moved to verification.note; the article count and the entry-into-force clause now come from the bill text; the remark about the missing text layer moved to verification.note (the stored copy now has an OCR text layer); added the dataset, developer-penalty and catalogue-offence provisions2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-14summary: Private member's bill amending the Penal Code, Internet Law No. 5651, Data Prote → Private member's bill amending the Penal Code and Laws No. 5651 (internet), 6698 — 'traceable training data' replaced by the bill's terms, 'transparency and auditability of training data sets' ('Egitim veri setlerinin seffafligi ve denetlenebilirliðini', Article 6, OCR layer); 'personal rights' rendered as 'personality rights' (kişilik hakları); human oversight rendered as 'human-approved oversight in high-risk uses' ('insan onayli denetim'); label rendered literally ('Yapay Zekâ Tarafından Üretilmiştir', produced by AI); BTK named; the AI-system definition moved to notes for length2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-14original_title: 5237 Sayılı ve 26/9/2004 Tarihli Türk Ceza Kanunu ve Bazı Kanunlarda Değişiklik → Bazı Kanunlarda Değişiklik Yapılmasına İlişkin Kanun Teklifi — made verbatim: the bill text is headed 'BAZI KANUNLARDA DEĞİŞİKLİK YAPILMASINA İLİŞKİN KANUN TEKLİFİ' (page 5); the previous value was the cover letter's description ('... kanun teklifim', my bill) recast in title case. The cover-letter wording is now in notes. The OCR layer reads the heading as 'DEGiSIKLIK ... ÏLÏSKÏN ... TEKLiFi'; the value restores the Turkish characters2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-14title: Bill Amending the Turkish Penal Code No. 5237 and Certain Laws (artificial intel → Bill on Amendments to Certain Laws (artificial intelligence provisions in the Tu — renders the bill's own heading ('Bill on Amendments to Certain Laws'), with the AI content and the bill number in the parenthesis2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — No English version in the stored copies, and none found in a targeted search on 14 Oct 2026.manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Türkiye AI Bill 2/2234 (2024) Türkiye · Draft / proposed

Citation

Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM); private member's bill by Halil Öztürk (Nationalist Movement Party, Kırıkkale). Bill on Amendments to Certain Laws (artificial intelligence provisions in the Turkish Penal Code and other laws, 2/3358) [TBMM Esas No. 2/3358 (28th term, 4th legislative year)]. 2025-11-07. https://cdn.tbmm.gov.tr/KKBSPublicFile/D28/Y4/T2/WebOnergeMetni/5b8d2dc6-9dee-41e8-98c6-ee5b28ca9608.pdf. Status: Draft / proposed; verified 2026-10-14 (level A). Local copy archive/TR-02/2026-10-11/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-11 19:46:28 UTC, SHA-256 1badf3716693d247514e79406a1552e373da0b51e5df412960e89f421cf0714d. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record TR-02.

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