YBK Attorney Partnership

Data Protection and Privacy, Competition, IT and Telecommunications, Media and Advertising, E-Commerce, Environment & Sustainability

Founding Partner

Cenk Konukpay graduated from Galatasaray University Faculty of Law in 2013 and completed his Master’s degrees at the College of Europe and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He had also the chance to carry out a traineeship at the Secretariat of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) of the Council of Europe. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in public law at Galatasaray University.

Having a successful academic background in various prestigious institutions, he has a strong professional working capacity to deliver a valuable contribution to his work. Cenk Konukpay’s legal services focus on a variety of sectors including insurance, e-commerce, retail, energy, digital services and automotive.

Cenk Konukpay’s work includes a wide range of areas in data protection, e-commerce, environment & sustainability and competition law in particular advising on day-to-day commercial practices, organizing and leading training and compliance programmes for top tier companies, leading all phases of compliance processes, preparing documents and drafting and reviewing commercial agreements, representing and assisting clients in all phases of data protection law related matters including data breaches, complaints and cases in general, working closely with the relevant departments and legal counsels for the implementation of the requirements.

He often refers as a competent and easy-to-work-with in all matters and consistently provides accurate and fast responses with high standards of integrity and professionalism.

Cenk Konukpay is fluent in English and French.

Selected Publications, Conferences, Symposiums, Speeches

Speaker at the Conference: “Generative AI and Data Protection” Istanbul Bar Association, November 2023. Personal Data Protection Workbook: Selected Cases, Seckin, Ankara, November 2023. “The Impact of AI on Social Rights” in Algorithmic discrimination and Ethical perspective of Artificial Intelligence, Springer, October 2023. “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Fundamental Rights (co-author)”, in Emerging Technologies and Law, Oniki Levha, Istanbul, December 2021. “Further Processing in Data Protection Law: The Question of the Application of Compatibility Criteria (co-author)”, Second-best paper award in a competition organized by the Turkish Data Protection Authority, April 2021. “Workplace Surveillance and Protection of Private Life in the Light of Current International Case Law (co-author)”, Turkish Criminal Law Association Journal, 2018. Speaker at the Conference: “AI and Human Rights” Istanbul Bar Association Artificial Intelligence Working Group, January 2022 Speaker at the Conference: “Socio-Cultural Transformation in a Digital World”, Informatics Association of Turkey, April 2021. Speaker at “Competition Law Seminars”, Istanbul Bilgi University Competition Law and Policy Research Centre, April 2021.

Turkish, English, French

Istanbul Bar Association

Galatasaray University, PhD (Public Law), Ongoing Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, LLM (Fundamental Rights), 2015 College of Europe, MA (European Interdisciplinary Studies), 2014 Galatasaray University, LLB, 2013