Personal Data Protection Agency in Turkey in the context of European Union

Today, the development of technology makes it easy to navigate, store and access data in a digital environment. This leads to a lot of data traffic and causes many rights violations. Most importantly, the private area of the person suffers from this. For this reason, the protection of personal data necessitated new regulations either nationally or internationally. In these regulations, it is emphasized that protective mechanisms should be established in order to prevent damages that may occur as a result of data processing. In this study, the Personal Data Protection Agency created to ensure the effectively protection of personal data in Turkey, deal with in terms of structural and functional, was examined comparatively in the light of the General Data Protection Regulation, the latest regulation in the European Union. Keywords: Personal Data, Data Protection, The Agency for the protection of Personal Data, General Data Protection Regulation.