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338 NEWSLETTER 2018 General Information on Registration to the Data Controllers Registry and the Decision of the Personal Data Protection Authority* Prof. Dr. H. Murat Develioglu Introduction Law on the Personal Data Protection numbered 6698 (“Law”) was accepted on 24 March 2016 and entered into force, except for certain articles that are reserved, through publication in the Official Gazette dated 7 April 2016 and numbered 29677. The purpose of this Law is to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of persons and, in particular, the confidentiality of private life, and is to regulate the procedures and principles to be followed by natural persons and legal persons who process personal data, and their obligations pursuant to Article 1 of the Law. Pursuant to Article 16 of the Law, in order to effectively fulfill these purposes, the Chairman- ship shall keep the record of the Data Controllers Registry (“Regis- try”) that is publicly available under surveillance by the Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”). Within this scope, the general provisions regarding the Registry will be addressed, below, first. Thereafter, a recent decision of the Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) will be elaborated upon. The Obligation to register with the Data Controllers Registry As per Article 16 of the Law, the data controllers must fulfill their obligations as to the registration with the Registry before starting to * Article of May 2018