Recent Investigations
Investigation Against Mercedes Benz
Turkish Competition Authority ("TCA") has concluded
its preliminary inquiry launched against Mercedes-Benz Turk AS and
determined that their findings yielded "sufficient"
and "serious" evidence that merited a formal
investigation.
The preliminary inquiry was initiated based on a third party
complaint that claimed that Mercedes-Benz Turk AS abused its
dominant position in the market for trucks to distort competition
in the markets for standalone and truck-mounted concrete pumps,
through agreements with manufacturer of concrete pumps, as well as
discount plans offered for those manufacturers.
The investigation will attempt to determine whether the company
has violated Article 6 of Act No. 4054 on the Protection of
Competition, which prohibits abuses of dominant position in the
market. Within the context of TCA's previous rulings, this
decision hints at a more fine-grained definition of markets and
