Industry Findings: Recent legal reforms in Türkiye have tightened the mechanics of cross-border transfers, forcing buyers to redesign recovery topologies with stronger local controls and legal safeguards. The Regulation on the Procedures and Principles for Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Data took effect during Jul-2024, eliminating consent as a default transfer basis and requiring clearer contractual mechanisms for overseas replication. That regulatory pivot compels organisations to favour local or regionally proximate vaulting, to formalise documented restore attestations and to build recovery workflows that minimise legal friction when failover engages foreign infrastructure.
Industry Player Insights: A large number of providers operate in Turkey including Turkcell, Türk Telekom, Netas, and Kiy (Kafein) etc. Vendors are adapting offerings to meet the new transfer and residency tests. Turkcell announced a strategic cooperation with Google Cloud in Nov-2025 to expand cloud region capability and bolster local infrastructure, which will enable lower-latency staging and simplify cross-cloud recovery choreography for Turkish customers. Türk Telekom has continued to evolve its enterprise continuity portfolio, building on partnerships to offer carrier-backed DR and hosted failover options across key metros in 2023–2024. These moves push buyers to prefer vendors that can deliver legally defensible, locally anchored recovery corridors and managed orchestration that aligns with the new transfer regime.