Administrative Fines under the Electronic Commerce Law Updated for 2026

The Communiqué on Administrative Fines to Be Applied in 2026 Pursuant to Article 12 of the Law No. 6563 on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce (Communiqué), was published in the Official Gazette dated 25.12.2025 and numbered 33118.

With the Communiqué, the administrative fines have been re-determined by being increased at the revaluation rate of 25.49%, as determined for the year 2025.

The administrative fines to be imposed on service providers and intermediary service providers between 1 January 2026 and 31 December 2026 are summarized below:

• TRY 2,859 to TRY 14,309 for failure to provide pre-contractual information prior to the conclusion of a contract through electronic communication tools, failure to comply with the order confirmation process, or sending commercial electronic messages without consent or in violation of the granted consent;
• TRY 2,859 to TRY 28,620 for failure to confirm orders, failure to allow correction of data entry errors, or failure to clearly indicate the sender and content information in commercial electronic messages;
• TRY 5,723 to TRY 42,930 for failure to clearly specify the terms of promotions and campaigns or failure to comply with obligations regarding the rejection of commercial electronic messages;
• TRY 28,620 to TRY 286,206 for intermediary service providers that engage in practices significantly distorting the commercial activities or economic behavior of service providers, unilaterally amend intermediary agreements to the detriment of service providers, or include contractual provisions allowing such unilateral amendments;
• TRY 143,102 to TRY 715,516 for failure to submit information, documents, and records requested by the Ministry or failure to notify the required information to the Electronic Commerce Information System (ETBIS).

In addition, 

• An administrative fine of TRY 28,620,688 shall be imposed on service providers and intermediary service providers that fail to obtain a license from the Ministry or fail to renew their license. If the violation is not remedied, the Ministry may order the removal of content from, or blocking of access to, the relevant internet addresses of the service providers.