Agency effectiveness is of critical importance for antitrust enforcement to reach its main goals, the well-functioning market economy and the welfare of consumers arising from a competitive environment.

The Communiqué on Agreements, Concerted Practices, and Association of Undertakings' Decisions that Do Not Significantly Restrict Competition ("De Minimis Communiqué") numbered 2021/3 entered into force after being published in the Official Gazette dated March 16th, 2021.

Mobile applications, online platform services and internet-based economics have been on the agenda of competition authorities in the last decade.

On July 18th, 2022, the Turkish Competition Authority (the "TCA") published its decision ("Decision") concerning Nadirkitap's practices in the market for intermediary platform services...

In mid-2015, the economic unity formed by Google LLC., Google International LLC. and Google Reklamcılık ve Pazarlama Ltd. Şti. was shook by a complaint filed by one of its rivals, Limited Liability Company Yandex ...

Law no. 6745 on Promoting Investments on Project Basis and Amending Some Laws and Decree Laws was promulgated on 7th of September.

Proposed Draft Law Amending the Press Law and Other Certain Laws ("Draft") was submitted to the Presidency of the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 26 May 2022.

In today's data driven economy, data transfers, especially those involving personal data are inevitable and are even rather essential for many businesses.

Last March, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia introduced a new Competition Act

The competition law enforcement in Turkey is based on private and public enforcement pillars. TCA has sole discretion to enforce the Competition Act whereas the litigations initiated by the victims of anti-competitive conduct are seen in private courts.

The recent amendments to Act No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition signify a profound transformation in the administrative procedures governing competition investigations in Turkey.

Recently the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) announced a new reasoned decision in relation to Turkish beer market and has preserved the rule for beer coolers.

In 2021, the Law on Product Safety and Technical Regulations (Law no: 7223, "the Law") entered into force in Turkey.

Recently, Turkish Competition Authority published its Annual Report for 2018. The report provides a broad range of statistics related to TCA's activities in 2018 as well as an overview of the competition policy in Turkey.

We summarised the important regulatory changes affecting Turkish capital markets in Q3 2020 for you.

A few months ago, we reported that Law no. 6745 on "Promoting Investments on Project Basis and Amending Some Laws and Decree Laws" was promulgated on 7 September and that article 80 of this law . . .

As per the Turkish competition rules, vertical agreements are governed by Article 4 of the Competition Act No.: 4054 ("Competition Act") and the Block Exemption Communiqué No: 2002/2 on Vertical Agreements ("Communiqué").

Tracking the prices is an integral element of any shopping activity. Whether you are in the supermarket filling your basket with groceries or in the cosmetics shop picking up a lovely box...

Recently the Turkish Competition Authority ("TCA") has taken a series of decisions that may potentially affect the market structure and the nature of competition in payment systems.

TCA launched investigation into undertakings operating in the nuclear medicine market over bid rigging and concerted practice allegations: The TCA has initiated a formal investigation into 11 undertakings operating in the nuclear medicine market (including Medicheck, Referans, Fefa, Sintias, Nukleon, Bianco, Nukleus, MNT, GAMA and Moltek) to determine whether they violated Article 4 of the Competition Act through bid rigging and/or concerted practices, particularly in tenders conducted by public hospitals.