The second penalty was given to social media giants!

Law No. 7253, known as social media operating in Turkey with the changes made in the law and daily access to more than 1 million obligation delegation was brought to the platform. On November 2, after the first 10 million TL penalty given to companies such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, Dailymotion, Periscope, the time has expired and the second penalty has been imposed! The second penalty was given to social media giants! After passing through Parliament embodiment of social media Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, daily access had become necessary to have a representative in Turkey of companies with more than 1 million. Within the scope of the first time given to companies, only the Russian-based VKontakte (VK) social media platform authorized representatives, while other social media giants were not taken. As a result, companies such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, Dailymotion, and Periscope were fined 10 million TL separately. The companies, which were given an additional legal period of 1 month after the first penalty, did not take any steps to open a representative office. This time, social media giants were fined 30 million TL each, in accordance with the article in the law. Companies pay penalties of $ 30 million does not open a representative office in Turkey, receiving ads from real and legal persons who are taxpayers in Turkey of the laws of social network providers should be banned for three months. If the companies do not open representative offices at the end of this three-month period; BTK will apply to the court and demand a 50 percent band narrowing penalty in the first stage. If the demands of the judges are not met within 30 days, this time a 90 percent band narrowing penalty may be imposed.