Offices, hotels, cafes, factories, schools, hospitals, municipalities, shopping malls, internet cafes, gyms/beauty centers, or coworking spaces — any organization that gives someone the means to use the internet at a specific place falls under the same basic definition set out in Law No. 5651. Find your industry below; each page addresses the topic through that industry's real-world roles (employee, guest, student, patient's visitor...).
Law No. 5651 defines the concept of "public use provider" extremely broadly; whether commercial or not, and regardless of industry, anyone who provides someone with the means to use the internet at a specific place for a specific period falls within this definition:
"Toplu kullanım sağlayıcı: Kişilere belli bir yerde ve belli bir süre internet ortamı kullanım olanağı sağlayanı,"
"Public use provider: a person who provides individuals with the means to use the internet at a specific place for a specific period of time,"
Law No. 5651, Article 2/1-i — unofficial translation — mevzuat.gov.tr
In practice, this definition is simple: your internet line is registered in the name of your business, institution, or organization. When a transaction made over that line — by an employee, a guest, a student, or a visitor — is examined, the question is first directed at the line's owner. At a hotel it's front-desk staff versus the guest staying there; at a cafe it's the server/cashier versus the customer; at a factory it's the shift worker versus the subcontractor; at a school it's the teacher versus the student. The roles differ by industry, but the question is always the same: "who performed this action?"
Without a record, this question cannot be answered, and the uncertainty of responsibility stays with the business or institution. Identity-matched access records — who, which device, which internal IP, what time, which destination, which NAT port — show who performed the action and protect you. This is not a legal guarantee; it is a documentation capability that lets you respond fully and quickly to a request from the competent authorities.
Document employee internet use with identity-matched records; protect your company's line.
Pre-registration from your stay list, guest onboarding, and a branded captive portal.
Fast guest Wi-Fi with one tap from the table; identity-matched records via SMS or a visitor code.
Manage shift workers, subcontractors, and visitor access on separate networks with registered devices.
Separate student, teacher, and parent networks; sync the student list via API and staff via AD/LDAP.
Separate the visitors' network from staff; guest entry with a KVKK privacy notice and a consent flow.
Free, SMS-verified Wi-Fi in squares, parks, and libraries; many locations from a single panel.
Monitor multi-store hotspot networks with centralized logging, one panel, and one portal design.
Obligations specific to commercial-purpose internet public use providers, and compliance with izgate.
Separate member and guest networks; fast, SMS-free login options with a visitor code.
Separate member, guest, and event networks; membership and session management with an approval flow.
Every session is bound to an alias code on the firewall; in the panel, that code resolves to the real person (name, masked phone/ID number). Whatever role they hold (employee, guest, student, patient's visitor), it's clear who the record belongs to.
Each record is written in segments to a separate disk from the live data; it is protected by a SHA-256 chain and an Ed25519 signature, and receives a qualified timestamp once a day.
Each network has its own portal, authentication method, and access rule; guest, staff, student, or visitor networks operate independently of one another.
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