Turkey — Cyber Threat Profile
Turkey enacted a comprehensive Cybersecurity Law in March 2025 and established a dedicated Cybersecurity Presidency in January 2025, but mass data breaches continue unabated, exposing a governance culture reliant on denial and vague acceptance rather than transparent incident response. A 2025 investigation found the personal data of 1.7 million students offered for sale on dark web forums, with multiple credit card leak clusters surfacing through November and December. Organizations in Turkey suffered more than ten cyberattacks on average in the past year. Iranian actors targeted Turkish aerospace and defense industries in late 2024.- National CERT/CSIRT: TR-CERT
- Data protection authority: Personal Data Protection Authority (source: CNIL)
- World Cybercrime Index 2024 (origin significance): 1.22 / 100, #28 worldwide
- Secure Internet servers per 1M people (2024): 11,103.4 (source: World Bank)
- Internet users (2025): 89.8% of population (source: World Bank)
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