Turchia: si possono riprendere le persone? E pubblicare il video?
Questa è un'informazione generale, non una consulenza legale. Ogni affermazione rimanda alla sua fonte primaria. Verificato il 2026-10-17.
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Nessun divieto generale di riprendere in pubblico, ma i volti sono dati personali secondo la legge turca sulla protezione dei dati personali (KVKK); pubblicare una persona riconoscibile senza consenso può violare il diritto civile e l'art. 134 del Codice penale.
Posso riprendere le persone in pubblico?
No statute bans filming in a public place, but three layers of law apply. The Anayasa (the Constitution, art. 20) protects private life and says personal data may be processed only in cases provided by law or with the person's explicit consent.
The Türk Ceza Kanunu (the Penal Code, TCK) art. 134 makes violating a person's private life a crime, and the sentence is doubled when it is done by recording images or sound. The statute does not say where a public place ends and private life begins; the regulator, assessing municipal tourism cameras, said that in squares, walkways and beaches people can expect their behaviour not to be monitored.
The Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu (the Personal Data Protection Law, Law 6698, KVKK) covers any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, and the Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurulu (the Data Protection Board) treats faces and licence plates in public-space footage as personal data, and live streaming as processing even when nothing is recorded. Processing needs explicit consent or an art. 5(2) ground such as legitimate interest; purely personal filming is exempt (see below).
The Türk Medeni Kanunu (the Civil Code, TMK) art. 24 says every attack on personality rights is unlawful unless justified by consent, an overriding private or public interest, or legal authority, so an unwanted close-up can be challenged in a civil court even if no crime is committed.
Posso pubblicarlo?
Posting is where the KVKK bites. The household exemption applies only if the data is not given to third parties (art. 28(1)(a)), and publishing online makes it available to third parties. The Board fined a football-pitch operator that recorded matches and put them on its website without consent, and fined a hospital whose surgeon posted a patient's photos on his own social-media account, because the patient had consented only to the hospital, not to the surgeon's posts.
Art. 28(1)(c) takes processing for art, history, literature, science or within freedom of expression outside the law, but only if it does not violate privacy or personality rights, constitute a crime, or harm national security or public order. The Board refused that exemption to a news site that used the photo of a man under legal guardianship in a false story, weighing public interest, accuracy and the balance between substance and form.
TCK art. 134(2) punishes unlawfully disclosing images or sounds of a person's private life, including through press or broadcast with two to five years, and art. 136 covers unlawfully spreading personal data. The civil route is TMK art. 25: an injunction, a declaration of unlawfulness, publication of the judgment and damages.
Cosa cambia per i bambini?
Law 6698 has no separate rule on children or an age of consent, so the general rules apply. Under the Civil Code, parents are their children's legal representatives (TMK art. 342), but minors with the capacity of discernment may exercise strictly personal rights without their legal representative's consent (art. 16). The regulator warns parents that shared photos and videos can be misused, including through AI deepfakes. Schools and platforms can set stricter rules of their own.
Uso privato e pubblicazione
Recording for yourself is largely outside Law 6698: art. 28(1)(a) exempts processing by natural persons within activities relating to themselves or family members in the same dwelling, provided the data is not given to third parties and kept secure. The Penal Code still applies to the recording itself if it reaches into private life. Publishing ends the exemption: you then need an art. 5 ground or the conditional expression exemption, and the Board has said even a live stream that is never saved counts as processing.
Cosa cambia sfocando i volti
Blurring changes the position because Law 6698 protects identifiable people. Art. 3(1)(b) defines anonymisation as rendering data impossible to associate with an identified or identifiable person even when matched with other data, repeated in art. 10 of the regulator's anonymisation regulation; truly anonymised footage is no longer personal data, and the regulator's own alternative to live streams is filming so that persons cannot be identified.
Partial masking is not enough. The Board held a patient was still identifiable from eyebrows and other facial features although the eyes were covered, and that low-quality footage was personal data because physical, physiological or behavioural features could identify the players. Voice, gait, tattoos, plates or a caption can undo a blurred face.
Dove la legge non è chiara
The law does not say whether an individual vlogger is a "data controller", or how far the expression exemption in art. 28(1)(c) protects personal social-media posts, and none of the regulator's published guides covers filming people in public. TCK art. 134 does not define "private life" either, so the line between a public scene and private life depends on the facts.
Fonti
- Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Anayasası (Constitution), madde 20 private life; personal data only by law or explicit consent
- Türk Ceza Kanunu (Penal Code, Law 5237), madde 134, 136, 139 privacy violation by recording and disclosure; personal data offences; complaint requirement
- Türk Medeni Kanunu (Civil Code, Law 4721), madde 16, 24, 25, 342 personality rights, justification grounds, civil remedies; parents as legal representatives; minors and strictly personal rights
- Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu (Law 6698, KVKK), madde 3, 4, 5, 28 definitions incl. anonymisation; processing grounds; household and expression exemptions
- KVKK — Belediyelerin turistik tanıtım amacıyla yaptığı canlı yayınlar hakkında kamuoyu duyurusu (23.06.2026) faces and plates in public footage are personal data; live streaming is processing; expectation not to be monitored in squares, walkways, beaches
- KVKK Kurul kararı 2021/889 (03.09.2021) — halı saha kayıtları recording and publishing matches without consent; low quality does not prevent identification
- KVKK Kurul kararı 2021/989 (30.09.2021) — haber içeriğinde görsel art. 28(1)(c) expression exemption refused; photo of a person under guardianship in a false news story
- KVKK Kurul kararı 2022/630 (29.06.2022) — hekimin sosyal medya paylaşımı eyes covered but still identifiable; consent given to the hospital did not cover the surgeon's posts
- Kişisel Verilerin Silinmesi, Yok Edilmesi veya Anonim Hale Getirilmesi Hakkında Yönetmelik anonymisation definition (art. 10)
- KVKK — Yapay zekâ araçları kullanan çocuklar için ebeveynlere yönelik tavsiyeler regulator advice on children's photo and video sharing (brochure PDF linked from this page)
- KVKK — Rehberler (list of the regulator's guides) no guide on filming people in public (all 5 pages checked 2026-10-17)
Qualunque sia la regola nel posto in cui riprendi, sfocare i volti per cui non hai il consenso è il modo più semplice per andare sul sicuro prima di pubblicare. Anonimo lo fa sul tuo iPhone, senza caricare il video.