Pursuant to the Regulation Amending the Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages ("Regulation") that was published in the Official Gazette dated 4 January 2020 and numbered 30998, all natural and legal entities that deliver electronic commercial messages were requested to register with the Centralized Commercial Message Management System ("IYS"). In that respect, the opt-in consents of recipients were required to be transferred to IYS by the service providers until 1 June 2020. You can find our article on details of the Regulation here.

The Ministry of Commerce extended the deadline for registering the opt-in consents of recipients with IYS until 31 August 2020 with an announcement on the Ministry's website on 23 May 2020. Accordingly, the recipients will need to check the opt-in consents registered in their names by 1 December 2020.

Originally published 28 May 2020

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