Organization : Post and Telegraph Organization PTT
Facility : Registered Electronic Mail (REM) Service
Country : Turkey
Website : http://en.ptt.gov.tr/ptten#ptt_kayitli_elektronik_posta
REM Service :
What is the Registered Electronic Mail (KEP)?
Nowadays associated with the widespread web, there is an increasingly tendency from manual transactions towards digital services and the use of e-mail rate has risen in contrast with physical letter.
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In this period of change, PTT also aims to reach the farthest level of development in terms of technology by means of serving improved e-services.
Registered Electronic Post Project (KEP) is a service, which moves forward current PTTtechnology in postal services. KEP equals to present day traditional postal stampin electronic environment.
In addition to date, hour, digital identification tag, content verifying and encryption features; the most important feature is its unchangeable structure. Within the context of KEP, used time stamp is the legal prove of that “the items are original and the document is not changed” electronically.
All state institutions and organizations and natural or legal persons may be affiliated with the KEP system. Members will be able to send and receive registered e-mail between each other.
Besides, in accordance with their request, they might well take the advantage of additional quota in order to preserve received mails as well as SMS service by mobile phones shows that user has received a registered electronic mail.
E-Notification :
E-notificationis the delivering of notifications, which made up electronically by recourses that are authorized to issue a communique in the eyes of the Law of Notification, to the receivers in a way, which cannot be change and deny through registered electronic mail.
All state institutions and organizations and natural or legal persons may be affiliated with the e-Notification system.
The recourses that are authorized to issue a communique in the eyes of the Law of Notification will be able to send e-notification and the addressee may receive the e-Notification.
The addressees who request e-notification address are obliged to have a convenient e-mail account.
By operation of Law of Notification No 7201, e-notification can be made via KEP account that provided only by PTT Corporation. Additionally, institutions and organizations have already started to send e-notification on the basis of the system.
By operation of Law of Notification, “It is an obligation to make notification to Limited Companies, Incorporated Companies and Partnership Limited by Shares electronically.” E-notifications might be sent to the receivers KEP accounts.
Therefore, from the point of above mentioned companies to have a registered electronic mail account, which is favorable fore-notification is a mandatory provision.
E-Correspondence :
What is ‘E-Correspondence’?
Information Society Strategy that presents the strategic priorities in terms of Turkey’s conversion to information community and the precautions to be applied from 2006 to 2010 was published on the Official Gazette dated 28/07/2006 and no 26242 and entered into force with the judgment of Higher Planning Council.
Via “Setting Off Common Services” action that takes part in Information Society Strategy Action Plan Annex No.73, to do studies about centrally presentation of some functions, which co-executed among state institutions and organizations, has been foreseen and the Ministry of Development has been determined as legal responsible for the aforesaid action.
Within the context of this action, so as to enhance the common rules set, which provides conducting government correspondence among the state institutions and organizations electronically, “e-Correspondence Project” has been started in 2010 by the Ministry of Development.