Türkiye AI Action Plan (2026-2030): Presidential Circular 2026/9

1. Identification

2. Normative character: the limits of bindingness

A circular is an administrative instrument addressed to public institutions. It therefore imposes no directly enforceable obligation on private parties — it is neither a statute nor a regulation. In practice, however, it will reach the private sector through three channels:

• Public procurement: the minimum 2% share of public investment earmarked for AI, and the public-sector adoption target, will crystallise as technical and compliance criteria in tender specifications.
• Secondary legislation: regulatory sandboxes and data-sharing commitments carry a clear potential to become binding rules at regulation and communiqué level.
• Supervisory expectation: monitoring through the Council will establish a de facto compliance standard for suppliers working with the state.

3. The four axes

A total of 16 actions sit beneath these axes.

4. Quantified targets

5. Principles

The plan is built on human-centricity, reliability, ethical responsibility, digital sovereignty and sustainable development. While this set does not map one-to-one onto the risk-based architecture of the EU AI Act, it points in the same conceptual direction on human oversight and trustworthiness. For companies operating in Türkiye that also place products or outputs on the EU market, the common ground between the two frameworks — documentation, data governance and human-oversight records — can be maintained in a single compliance file.