On October 1st, CJEU issued a decision given pursuant to the preliminary ruling procedure upon German FCoJ inquiry regarding interpretation of data protection and e-privacy rules applicable in the EU.

For the past few years, Turkey has tended to use various trade remedy tools more frequently, thus the number of investigations increases in depth and breadth with the aim of supporting domestic industry...

In 2014, Europe's largest telecoms provider Deutsche Telekom and its Slovak subsidiary were imposed a total fine of €69.84m by the EC for abusing their dominant position in Slovakia's broadband internet infrastructure market.

In recent years, the USA has been pursuing a very protectionist approach against imports and accordingly, it has initiated safeguard investigations and imposed very high measures (e.g. steel product).

Turkish Lira (TRY) has been alarmingly losing its value for the last couple of months. Indeed, it lost well over 70% of its value against, for instance, US Dollar.

In August, President Donald Trump criticised technology firms including Google, Facebook and Twitter claiming that they could "represent a very antitrust situation".

The sharing of commercially sensitive information amongst competitors is categorized as information exchange, which may affect their decision-making processes and ultimately affect competition.

Innovation is a "must" for most of the companies, especially for big tech such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and others in a data and tech-driven world.

Throughout this article, we will discuss these recently published decisions.

It has been 20 years since Turkey introduced competition law, and with it, the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA).

In the previous days, the Turkish Competition Authority ("TCA") has published its reasoned decision in which it conditionally cleared the merger transaction.

Fake content is nothing new and has been there in the digital realm particularly after the introduction of photo-editing, image creation and graphic design software such as Adobe Photoshop in 1990.

The recent developments in the case law have led the trade remedy law practitioners to bring the Turkish Ministry of Economy's approach towards the implementation of the "lesser duty rule" to their agenda.

Turkish personal data protection practice presented some noteworthy developments in April and May 2019 as the Turkish Data Protection Authority published through its website several summaries of its recent decisions ...

With the recent decision given by the 13th Chamber of the Council of State on 24 May 2021

While European Union's data protection regulations date as far back as to 1995, Turkey recently announced the enactment of the Turkish Law on the Protection of Personal Data after a decade of legislative process.

It is without dispute that the Turkish Competition Authority ("TCA") has, at least according to its laws and regulations, the power to investigate and fine companies outside Turkey...

The countries in the world trading ecosystem have been taking steps to establish a freer trade since 1947- the time when the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (infamous GATT) was created.

The recent political tensions between the United States of America and Turkey have affected in a significant way the trade relations between the two countries in a context of already heated global trade environment ...

The Turkish Ministry of Trade ("Ministry") adopted, by the end of 2018 and in early 2019, several communiqués in the area of trade defence.