Turkiye: Bill on Amendments to the Social Services Law and Certain Other Laws including restrictions on minors’ access to social media was introduced to Grand National Assembly

On 4 March 2026, the Bill on Amendments to the Social Services Law and Certain Other Laws, including restrictions on minors’ access to social media, was introduced to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Social network providers would be prohibited from providing services to children under the age of 15 and would be required to implement age verification measures to enforce this prohibition. Children aged fifteen and above would be entitled to a separate, differentiated service with protections appropriate to minors. Under Article 22, paragraph 20, social network providers would be required to offer parental control tools enabling parents to manage account settings, subject purchases, rentals, and paid memberships to parental approval, and monitor and limit usage time. Social network providers with daily access exceeding 10 million users from Turkey would be required to implement urgent content removal decisions within one hour and to take all measures to prevent the re-publication of content subject to prior removal or access-blocking orders.