Industry Findings: Strengthened data-protection guidance and active national cloud programmes are reshaping Turkish SaaS procurement and architecture choices. In 2024 the data-protection authority and legislative updates clarified cross-border transfer conditions and cookie-/algorithmic-governance expectations, prompting procurement teams to require SCC-style transfer mappings, DPIAs and runtime explainability for analytics pilots. Concurrently, government-backed cloud initiatives encouraged domestic hosting options for regulated workloads, so architects now design hybrid patterns that keep regulated processing on national platforms while leveraging global services for scale. Buyers therefore prioritise vendors who publish transfer-mechanism artefacts and who can demonstrate local hosting or partner-managed residency to reduce legal ambiguity for enterprise deployments.
Industry Player Insights: A large number of providers operate in Turkey including Turkcell, Türk Telekom, Trendyol, and SAP etc. Turkcell moved to formalise strategic cloud cooperation and to expand data-centre investments in 2024, which signalled to enterprises that locally anchored hyperscaler partnerships are commercially viable and encouraged vendors to present Turkcell-backed residency options. Türk Telekom advanced national cloud infrastructure projects and open-source cloud initiatives in 2024, prompting public agencies and regulated enterprises to prefer vendor stacks that combine domestic hosting provenance with certified migration roadmaps. Trendyol’s platform-growth and SAP’s vertical cloud offerings further nudged buyers to shortlist suppliers that offer prebuilt industry templates plus controlled deployment footprints.