The Communiqué on the Amendment of the Block Exemption Communiqué on Vertical Agreements numbered 2002/2 by the Turkish Competition Authority (2021/4) was published in the Official Gazette on 5 November 2021 and entered into force.

Rekabet Kurumu'nun internet sitesinde 16.07.2020 tarihinde yayımladığı duyuru ile çevrimiçi perakende kanalının önemli aktörleri arasında yer alan e-pazaryeri platformlarına yönelik...

The Turkish Competition Board ("Board") announced on its official website the short-form decision on Yemek Sepeti Elektronik İletişim Tanıtım Pazarlama Gıda San. ve Tic. A.Ş. ("Yemek Sepeti", meaning the Food Basket), a Turkish online meal ordering platform,

The Law Amending the Law on the Protection of Competition ("Amendment Law") including various innovations regarding exemption regimes...

The Turkish Competition Authority announced last week that it will join other competition law enforcement agencies in looking into the e-commerce sector.

Up until the recent changes in Turkey's governmental system, the Ministry of Economy had the sole authority to initiate dumping or subsidy examinations.

The European Commission (Commission), on September 6th, 2023 designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft - under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

An employee from a commercial cleaning company was sentenced to two months in prison for obstructing an antitrust investigation by destroying and concealing documents during a police raid in Hong Kong.

The Portuguese beer brand Super Bock had tried to fix the minimum resale prices (i.e., resale price maintenance) for the distribution of its products in bars and restaurants, which from a formalistic interpretation constitutes a "by object" restriction of competition.

In December, EU Advocate General Athanasios Rantos, a legal advisor to the European Court of Justice ("ECJ"), published his much-anticipated opinion in the case concerning UEFA and FIFA's alleged abuse...

The EU's General Court ("GC") blocked the attempts of eleven German energy suppliers to annul the EUR 43 billion asset swap deal between RWE and E.ON.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak of ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law and Mr. Miguel Perez Guerra, Head of Antitrust EMEA at PayPal will discuss as to whether there is a genuine need for regulating digital markets and whether current competition law tools are capable of dealing with digital markets.

The 12 Banks saga is finally over. The Turkish Competition Authority's (TCA) initially fined 12 banks for fixing prices, commissions related to credit and credit card services in 2013.

On 5 January 2024, the TCA released its longawaited M&A Overview Report for the year 2023 ("Report"), which offers important insights into key trends and statistics related to mergers...

ICC is the association of banks formed as a joint stock company for carrying out the settlements of the banks arising from credit card transactions.

Articles 34, 43 and 45 of the Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition ("Law No. 4054") have been amended in accordance with Articles 3, 4 and 5...

The Law Amending the Turkish Commercial Code and Certain Laws ("The Amendment Law") has been published in the Official Gazette dated 9 May 2024 and numbered 32541 and entered into force as of its publication.

The Board recently adopted similar approach in its other decisions concerning hindering and complicating the on-site inspection.

After an investigation process of 8 months, the Turkish Competition Board ("Board") announced on August 9, 2021 on its website that it has concluded the investigation with a settlement decision...

On Friday, September 21 2018, the Competition Authority in Turkey published its decision on the Google as a result of the competition investigation that was running against Google.