AI has already entered the courthouse; we just haven’t noticed. According to figures released by the Ministry of Justice’s Directorate General of Information Technologies, AI in UYAP, Turkey’s National Judiciary Informatics System, has so far classified and digitised more than 110 million paper documents, and since 2024 it has extracted information from 21.8 million judicial

The “Implementation Guide on the Protection of Personal Data in Lawyers’ Professional Activities”, jointly prepared by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) and the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, was published on 22 September 2026. The guide covers the personal data side of our profession from start to finish and is well worth reading