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Cartel facilitators are viewed as possible instruments for undertakings to disguise their restrictive agreements and to get around competition law obligations.

The concept of a single continuous infringement ("SCI") enables competition authorities to consider a series of agreements or conducts that have the same objective to distort competition in the market as one single continuous infringement.

In April 2016, the Turkish Competition Board (the "Board") launched an investigation against Mey İçki San. ve Tic. A.Ş. ("Mey İçki"), a subsidiary of Diageo plc. The investigation aimed to explore...

In practice, especially in Turkey, there are numerous types of construction agreements relying on various terms and principles by virtue of the "freedom of contract" principle governing law of obligations.

The reasoned decision of the Turkish Competition Board concerning the preliminary investigation initiated by the Turkish Competition Authority against four movie producers and their professional union has been published...

Turkish competition law addresses the issue of "price squeeze" (or margin squeeze) under Article 6 of the Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition ("Law No. 4054") which prohibits the abuse of dominant position.

The Final Report is constructed upon the findings and analysis of the Preliminary Report.

Discussions on the establishment of an ethics commission have been afoot since 2011, when the first proposal for a legislation to establish a Political Ethics Commission was submitted by the main opposition political party in Turkey.

The Turkish Data Protection Board has recently published quite a number of decisions. Among those, some are important for certain matters of public interest and may constitute precedents for future cases.

On November 18, 2020, the General Court of the European Union ("General Court") upheld the European Commission's ("Commission") decision, in which Letuvos geležnkela AB ("Lithuanian Railway") ("LG") was found to have abused its dominant position in the Lithuanian rail freight market by removing a section of a railway track used by its competitors.

Merger remedies have an important role in the assessment of problematic concentrations which also create certain efficiencies.

The Turkish Competition Board ("Board") imposed an administrative monetary fine of TL 38,300,958.83 (approx. EUR 782,842.46) on Canon Eurasia

On 4 March 2022, the Turkish Competition Authority (the "Authority") published a Communiqué ("Communiqué No. 2022/2") which amended the Communiqué concerning the Mergers and Acquisitions Calling for the Authorization of the Competition Board ("Communiqué No. 2010/4").

The concept of excessive pricing has recently risen from the grave and once again became a hot topic of discussion within the competition law community, due to the various investigations initiated by the European Commission.

While the first case of novel coronavirus 2019 ("COVID-19"), a member of the macro-coronavirus family, had been diagnosed in January 13, 2020 in the city of Wuhan, China...

In their reviews, competition law authorities might be led to directly examine the undertakings' pricing strategies, which can be perceived as a direct intervention in their freedom to set their own prices, as opposed to the principles of the free market economy.

Over the recent years, digitalisation and digital services have been at the core of many innovative advantages for businesses and end users alike. These benefits range from online intermediation services...

On April 20, 2021, the Turkish Competition Authority announced on its website that the Turkish Competition Board had launched a full-fledged investigation against thirty-two undertakings for gentlemen's agreements ...