Article 1 of Law on Combating Information Technology Crimes

In applying the provisions of this Law, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated opposite each: Competent Minister: The minister designated by the Council of Ministers. Competent Entity: The entity designated by the Council of Ministers. Electronic Data: Data having electronic characteristics in the form of texts, symbols, sounds, drawings, images, computer programs, or databases. Automated Electronic System: A computer program or electronic system prepared to act or respond to an act independently, wholly or partially, without the intervention or supervision of any natural person at the time the act or response occurs. Electronic Data Processing System: An electronic system for creating, entering, retrieving, sending, receiving, extracting, storing, displaying, or processing information or messages electronically. Information Network: A connection between more than one information technology communications system Law Index 475 Home Page Information Technology Crimes Combating Law Law No. 63 of 2015 concerning Combating Information Technology Crimes to obtain and exchange information. Electronic Document or Record: A set of data or information created, stored, extracted, copied, sent, communicated, or received wholly or partially by electronic means, on a tangible medium or another electronic medium, and capable of retrieval in an intelligible form. Website: A location where information is made available on the information network through a specific address. Electronic: Everything connected with information technology and having electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, or electromagnetic capabilities or other similar means, whether wired or wireless, and any technologies that may be developed in this field. Information Technology Means: An electronic performance encompassing everything connected with information technology and having electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, or light capabilities or other similar means, whether wired or wireless, and whatever may be developed of in this field. Information Crime: Every act committed through the use of a computer, information network, or other information technology means in violation of the provisions of this Law. Unlawful Access: Deliberate unlawful access to computer devices and systems, an information system, an information network, or a website by partially or wholly breaching their protective means and procedures for any purpose whatsoever, without authorization or in excess of the authorization granted. Computer System: A set of programs and information systems prepared to analyze information, data and commands, program them, display them, preserve them, send them, or receive them, and capable of operating independently or in connection with other devices or information systems. Electronic Signature: Data taking the form of letters, numbers, symbols, signs, or otherwise, incorporated electronically, digitally, optically, or by any other similar means in an electronic document or record, added thereto, or necessarily associated therewith, and having a character that permits identification of the person who signed it and distinguishes him from others. Information Interception: Viewing, hearing, or obtaining data or information contained in any electronic message, including that transmitted electronically. Electronic Fraud: Influencing an automated electronic system that an electronic information system, an information network, an electronic document or record, an information technology means, a computer system or device, an electronic signature, or electronic information, through programming, obtaining, disclosing, transmitting, or publishing a number, password, secret code, or other confidential or private data, with the intention of obtaining an undue benefit or harming others. Chapter Two Crimes and Punishments