{"name":"Applied AI in Turkey — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Turkey, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/turkey","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Turkey","slug":"turkey","iso2":"TR","region":"Middle East & North Africa"},"counts":{"entries":46,"deployments":28,"evidenceImpact":2,"evidenceAdoption":6,"regulation":10,"industries":11,"countries":1,"linked":46},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Ministry of Family and Social Services (Türkiye)","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of Family and Social Services, Turkcell and the Women and Democracy Foundation (KADEM) will offer AI training for women across seven pilot provinces, opening in Van on 27 October, then Izmir, Ankara, Bursa, Gaziantep, Adana and Samsun until 8 December. Digital empowerment courses cover parenting online, safety and shopping, with childcare. Expansion follows in 2027.","date":"2026-10-20","source":"https://www.aksam.com.tr/guncel/bakanlik-duyurdu-kadinlar-icin-yapay-zeka-ve-dijital-guclenme-egitimleri/haber-1707619"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Turkey","role":"Contact-centre agent","org":"Pegasus Airlines","text":"Pegasus Airlines has Zingly.ai AI voice agents answering passengers on a first live service task after backing the start-up, resolving requests through existing systems. Callers wanting a human reach a Pegasus guest service agent holding the full transcript. Turkish comes first, with conversational call automation reaching the top 10 guest service use cases by mid-2027 at Türkiye's carrier of 43.3 million guests in 2025.","date":"2026-10-08","source":"https://www.flypgs.com/en/press-room/press-releases/pegasus-airlines-invests-in-zinglyai-to-bring-agentic-voice-ai-to-guest-service"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Turkey","role":"Bank customer service agent","org":"Türkiye Kalkınma ve Yatırım Bankası (TKYB)","text":"Türkiye Kalkınma ve Yatırım Bankası (TKYB) has opened an AI banking channel inside ChatGPT via an MCP-based link, aimed at letting customers query products in plain language and reach a set list of services there. TKYB counts itself among the country's first lenders to adopt such conversational banking.","date":"2026-10-05","source":"https://www.fintechdunyasi.com/tkyb-yapay-zeka-destekli-yeni-nesil-bankacilik-hizmetini-hayata-gecirdi/28183/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Technology & Software","region":"Turkey","org":"Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat)","text":"Generative AI adoption among individuals in Türkiye climbed to 37.6% in 2026 from 19.2% in 2025, TurkStat figures show. Enterprise AI uptake reached 14% in 2026, compared with 2.7% in 2021. For firms weighing AI but not yet using it, 72.3% named missing expertise as the biggest barrier.","date":"2026-10-02","source":"https://www.dailysabah.com/business/economy/ai-use-doubles-in-turkiye-but-lack-of-expertise-remains-key-barrier"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","role":"Court staff","org":"Ministry of Justice (Türkiye)","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of Justice is fast-tracking UYAP AI to bring AI in the judiciary's UYAP network and shorten trials, Minister Akın Gürlek says. An AI-supported pilot already ran in Ankara Batı, İzmir and Kayseri courthouses; the Alo Adalet 135 line should go nationwide in October. Gürlek outlined this court system AI push to a Council of Judges and Prosecutors meeting in Şişli.","date":"2026-09-25","source":"https://www.milliyet.com.tr/gundem/uyapa-yapay-zeka-geliyor-bakan-gurlek-ayrintilari-acikladi-7667410"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"COP31 Presidency (Türkiye), Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change","text":"Türkiye, hosting November's COP31 climate summit in Antalya, opened work at the UN General Assembly on the Antalya Pledge on Artificial Intelligence, a voluntary pact asking states to line up datacentre build-out with planetary warming targets. Türkiye AI policy here runs through the UN's International Telecommunication Union, co-writing a text due before the summit. President-Designate Murat Kurum argued that states should fix artificial intelligence energy rules and firms reveal how much power they consume.","date":"2026-09-21","source":"https://kfgo.com/2026/09/21/turkey-launches-ai-initiative-ahead-of-cop31-climate-summit/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","role":"Civil servant","org":"Ministry of Industry and Technology (Türkiye)","text":"Türkiye will compel AI training for civil servants across the whole payroll, a drive steered by the Industry and Technology Ministry. Lessons run from generative use and privacy to ethics and synthetic video — artificial intelligence literacy in the public service. Ministers want 30 trials across at least 10 bodies in two stages inside 12 months, five or more citizen-facing offerings on the e-Government portal, and three-year roadmaps in 12 weeks.","date":"2026-09-03","source":"https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkiye-to-mandate-ai-training-for-all-civil-servants-226369"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Turkey","org":"Türkiye Barolar Birliği (Union of Turkish Bar Associations)","text":"The Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has issued AI guidance for lawyers, rooted in a February 2026 Ankara workshop. President R. Erinç Sağkan says advocates may adopt such tools yet must never cede confidences, client data and interests, ultimate legal judgment or accountability to a machine.","date":"2026-08-28","source":"https://www.hukukihaber.net/tbbden-avukatlar-icin-yapay-zeka-kullanimi-tavsiye-rehberi"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye","text":"The Artificial Intelligence Action Plan for 2026-2030 took effect through a presidential circular signed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and published in the Official Gazette. Now binding Türkiye AI policy, it requires public institutions to spend at least 2 per cent of investment budgets on AI projects and promises AI literacy training for five million citizens across 81 provinces within two years. A national programme will train 10,000 specialists and 100,000 application professionals under the AI plan.","date":"2026-08-19","source":"https://en.milliyet.com.tr/news/turkiye-officially-launches-2026-2030-ai-action-plan-7644115"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Presidency of Türkiye (Cumhurbaşkanlığı) / Ministry of Industry and Technology","text":"Türkiye AI policy for 2026-2030 launches under the Türkiye Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, adopted via Presidential Circular No. 2026/9 in Official Gazette No. 33344. Four guiding principles—Recognise, Benefit, Produce and Govern—shape goals to grow 10000 advanced specialists and 100000 wider AI professionals, push public investment toward AI projects at a 2 percent minimum, and pull USD 10 billion from private-sector backers. A National AI Board plus a National AI Ethics Board join sandboxes spanning five priority sectors, with the Ministry of Industry and Technology steering this Turkish artificial intelligence strategy overall.","date":"2026-08-18","source":"https://www.morogluarseven.com/insights/publications/the-presidential-circular-on-the-turkiye-artificial-intelligence-action-plan-was-published/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Turkey","role":"Call-centre agent","org":"İSKİ (Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration)","text":"Istanbul's water and sewerage administration, İSKİ, launched the in-house İSKİ AI platform on 20 July for AI consumption forecasting, fault prediction and handling citizen requests. Deputy mayor Nuri Aslan says the Alo 185 smart assistant will cut call-centre workload by about 40% and forecasts will reach 97% accuracy.","date":"2026-07-20","source":"https://www.suvecevre.com/yayin/327/-iski-ai-yapay-zeka-projesi-tanitildi_40363.html"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Ministry of National Education of Türkiye","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of National Education says 5,676,000 users signed into MEBİ, its AI learning platform for self-study, in the 2025-2026 academic year, finishing over seven million practice and assessment tests. Cumulatively, 4,092,992 students, 731,822 teachers and 852,069 parents have used it; AI-driven prompts show pupils what to work on, and teachers get tools to track academic progress.","date":"2026-07","source":"https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/yapay-zeka-destekli-mebi-platformu-6-milyona-yakin-kullaniciya-ulasti/4006611"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","role":"Judge","org":"Ministry of Justice of Türkiye","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of Justice has given judges and prosecutors the CBS Organisation Prediction Project, an AI case analysis tool that reads case-file data to predict which organisation a file may link to. The ministry's Directorate General of Information Technologies calls it a digital assistant meant to shorten trials and support decision-making.","date":"2026-06-26","source":"https://bianet.org/haber/hakim-ve-savcilar-icin-orgut-tahmini-yapan-yapay-zeka-sistemi-322362"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Turkey","role":"Foreign-language teacher","org":"Ministry of National Education (Türkiye)","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of National Education launched DİLİM, an AI foreign-language learning platform, on 16 June and later reported 220,417 users. The platform analyses speech and writing live with personalised feedback, while a teacher module shows pupils' progress alongside class and individual performance reports.","date":"2026-06-16","source":"https://yegitek.meb.gov.tr/www/yapay-zeka-destekli-yabanci-dil-platformu-quotdilimquot-220-binden-fazla-kullaniciya-ulasti/icerik/3999"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","role":"Tax inspector","org":"Tax Inspection Board (VDK), Ministry of Treasury and Finance (Türkiye)","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of Treasury and Finance says its Tax Inspection Board will launch the AI-supported Bilinç Platform this year, letting taxpayers see and fix board-identified tax risks before any audit or penalty. Phase one gives AI tax risk scoring, combining over 150 rule-based tax analyses with machine-learning scenarios, and inspectors may be assigned to taxpayers seeking help.","date":"2026-06-07","source":"https://aa.com.tr/tr/ekonomi/mukelleflere-vergi-cezasi-oncesi-erken-uyari-sistemi-geliyor/3959050"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Turkey","org":"Ministry of Health (Türkiye)","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of Health has run over 2 million results through AI breast screening since 2024 via its AI-supported Mammography Screening Reporting System. Images from KETEM cancer early-diagnosis centres and Healthy Living Centres flow into one central system, where AI triage pushes suspicious findings up radiologists' lists and those patients get priority appointments.","date":"2026-04-04","source":"https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/saglik/saglik-bakanligi-yapay-zeka-destekli-mamografi-tarama-raporlama-sistemi-gelistirdi/3891407"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Turkey","org":"Ministry of National Education (Türkiye)","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of National Education has launched YAZEK, an online system requiring teachers and ministry units to file an AI ethics declaration for school AI work. The companion Ethics Guide for AI Applications in Education sets when declarations apply, defines violations and reporting routes, and creates provincial and district ethics boards plus school AI-ethics teams.","date":"2026-02-02","source":"https://ttkb.meb.gov.tr/www/egitimde-yapay-zeka-uygulamalari-icin-etik-beyan-sureci-basladi-yazek-yayinda/icerik/864"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","role":"Tax inspector","org":"Ministry of Treasury and Finance (Türkiye)","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of Treasury and Finance has deployed KAŞİF, AI fake invoice detection that screens about 4 million taxpayers daily. Built by the Revenue Administration's GİB Teknoloji and the TÜBİTAK Artificial Intelligence Institute, the machine-learning system picks out high-risk taxpayers likely to issue fake documents for Tax Inspection Board audits.","date":"2026-01","source":"https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/ekonomi/naylon-fatura-yapay-zeka-tabanli-kasif-ile-aninda-yakalaniyor/3804685"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Turkey","text":"Turkish high-school maths students given unguarded GPT-4 scored about 17% worse on later AI-free exams than peers without AI, in a randomised controlled trial of AI in maths education with about 1,000 students (Bastani et al., PNAS, 2025). A guardrailed 'tutor' version that withheld answers erased the damage, making this the strongest causal proof so far that unscaffolded AI use can degrade learning.","date":"2026","source":"https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422633122"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Technology & Software","region":"Turkey","org":"AIPA (Yapay Zeka Politikaları Derneği)","text":"Corporate AI adoption in Turkish business reached 39.2% this year, up sharply from 14.5% in 2021, according to a joint poll of 992 companies across 12 provinces by the Artificial Intelligence Policies Association (AIPA) and Kuantum Araştırma. Marketing topped the list of departments putting the technology to work, at 42.9%, ahead of management, finance, R&D, HR, production, public relations and legal — a sign that enterprise AI adoption in Türkiye is spreading well past its initial marketing foothold.","date":"2025-12-30","source":"https://www.haberturk.com/ankara-haberleri/40111210-turkiyedeki-isletmelerin-yuzde-39-2si-kurumsal-duzeyde-yapay-zeka-kullaniyor"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Presidency of Turkey","text":"A Public Artificial Intelligence Directorate General now operates inside Türkiye's Presidency Cybersecurity Directorate, overseeing government AI applications. Mehmet Fatih Kacır said it will draft public-sector AI systems rules, data governance benchmarks for e-government, and coordinate AI deployment across ministries. The National Technology Directorate's name also changed to reference artificial intelligence.","date":"2025-12-26","source":"https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/turkiye-broadens-technology-governance-with-new-artificial-intelligence-directorates/3781513"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Turkey","role":"Animators and content creators","org":"TRT Avaz","text":"\"Oyun Avcıları\" (Game Hunters) debuts on TRT Avaz as Turkey's first AI animation in television production, an AI-generated animated series of 13 parts. Makers combined 18,000 visual assets and 60,000 seconds of machine footage, merging over 10 distinct AI systems into one pipeline.","date":"2025-12-23","source":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/turkiyes-first-fully-ai-animated-series-oyun-avclar-premieres-on-trt-avaz-302648833.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Turkey","role":"Paediatrician","org":"İstanbul İl Sağlık Müdürlüğü (Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate)","text":"Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate now runs an AI newborn screening system citywide, financed with Istanbul Development Agency support. A positive heel-prick result triggers an instant booking at the nearest specialist clinic, and about 150 thousand infant tests get monitored yearly. Autism, cancer and hearing checks join this AI-based screening push next, spanning every age group.","date":"2025-12-18","source":"https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/saglik/yenidogan-bebeklerin-tani-ve-tedavileri-yapay-zekayla-belirlenecek/3774401"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Turkey","role":"Radiologist","org":"Sağlık Bakanlığı (Turkish Ministry of Health) / ASELSAN","text":"Turkish public hospitals now use ASELSAN's HealthView ADR-M100, an AI-powered mobile X-ray built with domestic engineering, producing chest-scan reports within seconds. Needing no internet link, it flags pneumothorax, pneumonia and lung fluid, giving doctors fast AI chest imaging diagnostics at the bedside. The Turkish Ministry of Health has placed 30 units so far, part of a rollout expected to reach about 330 machines.","date":"2025-12-11","source":"https://www.ankaramasasi.com.tr/haber/2203806/ankara-da-aselsan-in-gelistirdigi-yerli-mobil-rontgen-hizmeti-basladi"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK)","text":"Türkiye's KVKK released a 15-question guide on generative AI data protection, explaining how such systems process personal information under Law No. 6698. It covers privacy risks and compliance duties for data controllers, part of an AI data privacy compliance push for organisations using large language models.","date":"2025-11-24","source":"https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/bilim-teknoloji/kvkk-15-soruda-uretken-yapay-zeka-ve-kisisel-verilerin-korunmasi-rehberi-hazirladi/3752568"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Marketing & Creative","region":"Turkey","role":"Advertising creative","org":"Şok Marketler","text":"A 90% cut in production time and cost came from Şok Marketler's new commercial, built entirely through generative AI tools from Google — Gemini 2.0, Imagen 4, Veo 3 and MusicFX — under a partnership with Google Türkiye in Turkey. Concept design, visual output, editing and the score were each machine-produced for the brand Amigo, marking the country's first AI-generated retail advertisement of its kind. The gain is an approach to AI-generated advertising the company itself reports, not an independently verified figure.","date":"2025-11-15","source":"https://basarihikayeleri.com.tr/sok-marketle-gemini-ile-reklamcilikta-nasil-devrim-yapti"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Turkey","role":"Retail credit officer","org":"Türkiye Finans","text":"Financially stretched customers of Türkiye Finans can now settle credit card and financing debts entirely on mobile, via the bank's new Digital Restructuring tool for AI-powered debt restructuring, skipping a branch visit altogether. Automated scoring reviews each case and drafts a bespoke repayment schedule, extending AI-driven debt restructuring into everyday consumer banking in Türkiye.","date":"2025-11-06","source":"https://www.haber1.com/ekonomi/turkiye-finanstan-yapay-zeka-destekli-dijital-yapilandirma-cozumu/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Turkey","role":"Energy plant operators","org":"Entek Elektrik Üretimi and KoçDigital","text":"Entek Elektrik Üretimi and KoçDigital hit 90% water flow forecast accuracy with a fresh hydroelectric plant optimisation tool, boosting energy production efficiency up to 2.5%. Crunching 56 parameters spanning 25 years of past records, it sharpens dam output scheduling nationwide. AI-based hydropower forecasting now replaces manual guesswork.","date":"2025-11-05","source":"https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/ekonomi/yapay-zeka-hidroelektrik-santrallerde-verimliligi-artiriyor/3735460"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Turkey","role":"Logistics operators and dispatchers","org":"Sürat Lojistik","text":"AI route planning logistics now spans Sürat Lojistik's network in Türkiye, linking smart lockers to intermodal transport for full shipment tracking. Live traffic and weather feeds drive algorithmic decisions on fuel, demand and routing, while a shared platform unites warehousing and distribution under AI-powered route optimisation.","date":"2025-11-04","source":"https://www.lojistikhatti.com/haber/2025/11/surat-lojistik-tum-operasyon-zincirini-uctan-uca-dijital-ortama-tasidi"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"HR & People","region":"Turkey","role":"HR professional","org":"LC Waikiki","text":"LC Waikiki applies AI in human resources via six assistants: EDA (training announcements), KORAY (KPI guidance), SEDA (training evaluation), SERA (procurement simulation), Elsie ChatBot (24/7 payroll and leave queries), and MİYA, a recruitment-speeding avatar. About 500 staff joined an AI4FUTURE contest building RPA and agent tools — workforce automation piloted at the Turkish retailer.","date":"2025-10-28","source":"https://www.ekonomim.com/sirketler/lc-waikiki-yapay-zeka-odakli-is-gucu-donusumu-baslatti-haberi-851428"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Turkey","org":"Allianz Türkiye","text":"Allianz Türkiye's Smart STP, applying AI in health insurance provisions, has handled 100 million transactions. Automated insurance approval now settles 92% of provision decisions autonomously, clearing cases within seconds so patients no longer wait at hospitals. Allianz put 3 million euros into AI projects across three years.","date":"2025-10-20","source":"https://www.sigortagundemi.com/allianz-turkiye-yapay-zeka-destegi-ile-100-milyon-provizyon-sayisina-ulasti/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","role":"Social security inspector","org":"Social Security Institution (SGK)","text":"Roughly 100 bin people in Türkiye have received fraud notices after SGK rolled out AI pension fraud detection. The AI-supported audit system cross-references payment histories, job records and tips to expose fake insurance status and sham divorces filed for survivor benefits. Accuracy is unconfirmed.","date":"2025-10-06","source":"https://kocaeligazetem.com/sgkdan-emeklilere-kritik-uyari-sahte-emeklilik-denetimi-basladi.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Ministry of Justice","text":"Türkiye's Ministry of Justice has set up a new AI and Data Analytics Branch Directorate inside its Information Technology General Directorate, part of a wider push on AI in judicial administration. The unit will oversee tools already summarising lengthy expert reports in seconds, easing clerks' workloads under this AI in court systems effort, while judges, prosecutors and lawyers keep final say over rulings. Minister Yılmaz Tunç framed the technology as assistive rather than decision-making, stressing that human legal professionals remain firmly in charge.","date":"2025-09-23","source":"https://www.cnbce.com/teknoloji/adalet-bakani-yilmaz-tunc-duyurdu-yapay-zeka-ve-veri-analitigi-sube-mudurlugu-kuruldu-h17505"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Turkey","role":"VFX artists and television producers","org":"Show TV (Veliaht)","text":"Ercan Kesal looks 20 years younger on screen after Mojo FX ran an AI de-ageing actor process for his part as Zülfikar Karslı in Show TV's Turkish drama Veliaht. Serkan Semiz called it Turkey's first use of this digital rejuvenation method in television production. No recasting needed; software altered his appearance directly.","date":"2025-09-19","source":"https://www.webtekno.com/veliaht-dizi-yapay-zeka-genclestirme-h203309.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","role":"Social services caseworker","org":"Ministry of Family and Social Services","text":"Türkiye's Family and Social Services Ministry switched on an AI-supported management model for welfare on 14 September 2025, seeking wider reach for social assistance and welfare programmes, an early case of AI in social services. Citizens now get help from digital assistants steering them toward benefit claims, while automated routing sorts applications, algorithms scan social media for child protection risks, and analytics feed into sharper service planning, an AI-supported welfare management push.","date":"2025-09-14","source":"https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/bilim-teknoloji/aile-ve-sosyal-hizmetler-bakanligindan-yapay-zeka-destekli-yeni-donem/3687006"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Marketing & Creative","region":"Turkey","role":"Advertising creative","org":"Uludağ İçecek","text":"Uludağ İçecek calls it Turkey's first AI-powered outdoor campaign: a generative AI figure dancing beside percussionist Burhan Öçal on billboards along Istanbul's Maslak-Levent corridor, promoting its Uludağ Şekersiz Limonata brand. The digital character moved to the drink's 9/8 rhythm jingle, blending live music with AI-generated advertising.","date":"2025-08-27","source":"https://www.marketingturkiye.com.tr/kampanyalar/burhan-ocal-ve-yapay-zeka-uludag-limonata-icin-ayni-sahneyi-paylasti/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM)","text":"Turkey's Grand National Assembly received the country's first comprehensive AI regulation Turkey has proposed, on 23 July 2025: the Bill of Law on Amendments to the Turkish Penal Code and Certain Laws. This AI governance legislation gives artificial intelligence a formal legal definition, splits criminal liability between developers and users, and forces deepfake material to be labelled within six hours. The Information and Communication Technologies Authority gains power to fine offenders up to 10 million lira; the bill remains under committee review.","date":"2025-07-23","source":"https://www.cbclaw.com.tr/en/the-artificial-intelligence-bill-of-law-is-on-the-agenda"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Turkey","role":"Banking operations staff","org":"ING Türkiye","text":"ING Türkiye posts an 85% success rate in business processes through a bank-wide AI in banking operations rollout, active since early 2025. Generative AI in banking now reviews documents, wins new customers and handles back-office duties, letting employees focus on richer client relationships instead.","date":"2025-07-16","source":"https://www.finansingundemi.com/haber/ing-turkiye-yapay-zekayla-musteri-deneyimini-daha-ust-duzeye-cikariyor/1859392"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Turkey","role":"Data scientist","org":"DenizBank","text":"DenizBank, Turkey's fifth-largest private bank, now launches new microservices models in 10 minutes, down from several days, using Red Hat OpenShift AI for AI model development in banking. About 120 data scientists there cover risk, marketing and customer relations, running machine learning lifecycles on-premise and in public cloud.","date":"2025-05-20","source":"https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-helps-denizbank-transform-banking-services-through-ai-and-machine-learning-innovation"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Marketing & Creative","region":"Turkey","role":"Advertising creative","org":"Popeyes Turkey","text":"Havas Istanbul crafted an AI-generated advertisement quick-service restaurant chain Popeyes Turkey debuted, using generative AI for every frame and sound. Unveiled 9 May 2025, it pushes two sauce-coated chicken flavours in fast-food marketing.","date":"2025-05-09","source":"https://pazarlamaturkiye.com/popeyestan-sektorde-bir-ilk-yapay-zeka-ile-reklam-filmi/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Turkey","role":"Retail banker","org":"ColendiBank","text":"Turkey gained its first AI-based digital bank as Colendi's ColendiBank opened to customers, having cleared licensing with regulator BDDK in October 2024. Its AI-driven backbone serves individuals and SMEs via embedded finance, tailoring products per user for AI in retail banking.","date":"2025-05-05","source":"https://www.ekonomist.com.tr/finans/turkiye-nin-ilk-yapay-zeka-temelli-dijital-bankasi-acildi-59817"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"HR & People","region":"Turkey","role":"HR professional","org":"MediaMarkt Türkiye","text":"Turkish electronics retailer MediaMarkt Türkiye cut hiring time by 78% using AI recruitment tools: AI'DA for automated pre-interviews and AI'M Hiring, an AI-integrated recruitment platform. In one year the AI-based hiring process screened 916 candidates, cut pre-interview time by 66%, hit 89% candidate satisfaction and filled 21 posts via AI'DA. Figures are the company's own, unaudited.","date":"2025-04-21","source":"https://www.turkiyeajansi.com/bilim-teknoloji/mediamarkt-turkiye-aida-ile-ise-alim-sureclerini-78-hizlandirdi-455716h"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu (KVKK — Personal Data Protection Authority)","text":"Türkiye's KVKK (Personal Data Protection Authority) has issued AI data protection guidance for anyone building, supplying or deciding with such systems. Publication No. 76, 'Yapay Zekâ Alanında Kişisel Verilerin Korunmasına Dair Tavsiyeler' (Recommendations on Protection of Personal Data in the Field of Artificial Intelligence), calls for lawfulness, transparency, minimal data use and bias safeguards from the outset, plus human oversight and accountability — the essence of personal data protection in artificial intelligence. High-risk projects need a Privacy Impact Assessment, and anyone hit by an automated decision keeps the right to challenge it.","date":"2025-04","source":"https://www.cottgroup.com/tr/yapay-zeka/item/yapay-zeka-alaninda-kisisel-verilerin-korunmasina-dair-tavsiyeler"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Turkey","org":"Presidency Digital Transformation Office","text":"Government AI training for civil servants in Turkish public administration reached its first milestone as the Presidency Digital Transformation Office finished a 140-hour course for 24 technical staff chosen by the Ministry of National Defence, under the Public Sector AI Transformation Project. Graduates covering machine learning, deep learning and open-source tools received certificates, completing this public sector AI transformation programme's opening cohort.","date":"2025-03-14","source":"https://www.ekoturk.com/son-dakika/kamuda-yapay-zeka-donusumu-projesi-egitiminin-ilk-donemi-tamamlandi/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Turkey","role":"Radiologist","org":"Acıbadem Sağlık Grubu","text":"Acıbadem Health Group has built AI imaging in healthcare into its newly opened Istanbul site, Acıbadem Kartal Hospital, fitting deep learning CT, 3 Tesla MRI and 3D mammography under one roof. Doctors get sharp diagnostic output from just one pass, while fetal abnormalities surface quickly through machine-assisted scan review.","date":"2025-02-17","source":"https://www.hardwarelab.net/2025/02/18/acibadem-yeni-kartal-hastanesini-yapay-zeka-ile-donatti/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Turkey","role":"Insurance agent","org":"Türkiye Sigorta","text":"Türkiye Sigorta launched Bilge'ye Sor, an AI assistant for insurance customer service, on its website, mobile app and Pusula Plus platform. This generative AI helper uses natural language processing for claims tracking, provision checks and document requests, live 24/7 for customers, agents and field teams.","date":"2025-02-13","source":"https://www.sigortakulisi.com/sigorta-teknolojisi/turkiye-sigortadan-yapay-zeka-destekli-dijital-asistan-bilge/2047"}]}