Highlights Of The Turkish Competition Authority's Recent Investigations

1. Introduction

The Turkish Competition Authority ("TCA") has recently been quite active in both opening new investigations and finalizing the pending ones. Within this scope, the TCA concluded ongoing investigations against companies active in ready mixed concrete, music and compulsory traffic insurance industries. In the meantime, the TCA has also launched two new investigations; one being against the leading mobile operators into their alleged abuse of dominance, the other being into the alleged anti-competitive practices of poultry meat producers. Both concluded and ongoing investigations play a significant role as it will render possible to further analyze the relevant markets and understand the TCA's approach to such alleged activities. As the reasoned decisions in relation to the concluded investigations have not been announced on the TCA's website yet, an overview of these developments is provided below.