As of January 10th 2016, Companies will be allowed to use competitor names and or trademarks in comparative advertisements

Under international law, the prejudicial clause is also a violation of BITs between the Republic of Turkey and a number of other countries.

The Amending Regulation, first of all, postpones the enforcement date for the rule allowing the use of name or trademark of the competitor in the comparative advertisement.

On 8 May 2025, a regulation amending the Regulation on Shopping Centers (the "Amendment Regulation") was published in the Official Gazette and entered into force.

Plaintiffs, who are representatives of the Keskin İş Güvenliği, a company active in the workplace safety in the province of Bursa, have submitted a complaint to the Turkish Competition Authority ("Authority") on the grounds that the alleged conduct of 3M Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.

On January 6, 2018, the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) published its annual Mergers and Acquisitions Status Report for 2017.

The following article gives a summary of the communiqués by the Ministry of Trade regarding the prevention of unfair competition in imports, made between 1 November 2019 and 30 November 2019.

The Turkish Competition Authority ("Authority") has introduced the Communiqué No. 2017/2 Amending Communiqué 2010/4 on Mergers and Acquisitions Requiring the Approval of the Competition Board ("Communiqué No. 2010/4") ("Communiqué No. 2017/2").

Turkish Industry & Business Association (TUSIAD) has launched a report entitled "Inflation in the Food Sector in the Perspective of Structural Issues" on 28 September 2016.

The Turkish Competition Board ("Board") published its reasoned decision on the investigation initiated against the Turkish Pharmacists' Association ("Türk Eczacıları Birliği" in Turkish) ("TEB") and Turkish Pharmacists' Association Commercial Enterprise ("Türk Eczacıları Birliği İktisadi İşletmesi" in Turkish) ("TEBII") on whether they had violated Article 6 of the Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition ("Law No. 4054"), by abusing their domi

One of the amendments made by the New Communiqué includes a new legal threshold in relation to the withdrawal of the exemption.

The Regulation entered into force on 26.02.2016.

The Turkish Competition Board's ("Board") reasoned decision (dated 13.07.2017 and numbered 17-22/352-157) regarding the request to access the case file submitted by Trakya Cam Sanayii A.Ş. ("Trakya Cam") has been published on the official website of the Turkish Competition Authority ("Authority").

The Turkish Competition Board has launched an investigation into the alleged blocking by the Turkish Pharmacists Union of "named patient sales" by pharmaceutical warehouses.

The 2nd Administrative Court of Ankara (the "Court") annulled the Turkish Competition Authority's ("Authority") decision whereby the Authority dismissed the application of an undertaking (the "Undertaking") requesting access to information contained ...

Turkish football was shaken on 2011 by the match-fixing allegations against nearly 100 football club officials. The police investigation turned into a scandal on game fixing behaviors of many high-profile officials and players.

Principal actors in the industry are venue operators, exposition organizers and exposition participants i.e. exhibitors.

The Turkish Commercial Code (“TCC”) was adopted in 1956, inspired by arguably the best codes of its age and since then, it was only sporadically updated. An overall effort to modernize the TCC has been in progress for the past five years, and finally, the relevant Commission of the Ministry of Justice presented the “Turkish Commercial Code Draft” (“Draft Code”) for public opinion in late February 2005.

The European Commission started a sector inquiry into e-commerce on 6 May 2015 as a part of its Digital Single Market Strategy.

The Authority published revised Guidelines on Vertical Agreements on March 30, 2018. The Guidelines include newly introduced provisions and amendments with regard to online sales and MFN clauses.