II. INTERNATIONAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION CONGRESS

Call for Papers

Our congress with the main theme of "A Priority in the Digital Era: Privacy" will be held on 16-17 November 2023 in cooperation with Personal Data Protection Authority and Bilkent University Faculty of Law.

The congress will be held within the scope of the protection of privacy and fundamental rights and freedoms stipulated in the Constitution, in line with the mission to ensure the protection of personal data in our country and to raise awareness on this issue and to create an environment that will increase the international competitive capacity of private and public sector actors in the data-based economy, 

The main purpose of our congress is to strengthen scientific arguments in the protection of personal data with its legal, technical and social dimensions, in an environment where public and private sector managers and employees, academics and relevant non-governmental organizations come together. The International Congress will be held in general and concurrent hybrid sessions. Sessions will be held in Turkish and English.

Sessions in the Congress will be scheduled and announced according to the accepted abstracts. Submitted abstracts will undergo editorial review and evaluation of our Scientific Committee. Abstracts that do not adhere to the publication principles will be returned to the author without evaluation by the Scientific Committee, requesting them to make necessary corrections within the given framework. Abstracts containing extraordinary clerical errors or failing to meet scientific standards will be considered as insufficient and rejected. Abstracts that are found suitable in the first review will be submitted to evaluation in line with blind peer review principle. Authors will not be informed about the identity of the member of Scientific Committee. According to the assessments of the Scientific Committee, the authors of the abstract will be informed whether their papers have been accepted or not. 

After the Congress, the submitted abstracts will be published in the proceedings book if they are presented at the Congress. If the author prefers, it is possible to include the paper as a full text in Turkish or English.