Turkish Competition Authority Imposed Sector-Wide Measures In The Poultry Market

The Turkish Competition Authority (the “TCA”) had scrutinized the poultry sector several times recognizing its vulnerability to collusion and anticompetitive information exchange. In its earlier decisions in 2009 (Poultry-I)¹ and 2019 (Poultry-II)², the TCA concluded that the investigated parties were involved in competitively sensitive information exchange, price coordination and supply restriction. In September 2025, the TCA issued its most far-reaching decisions to date in the poultry sector (Poultry-III)³, not only imposing significant administrative monetary fines on investigated companies but also introducing a sector-wide behavioral measure under Article 9 of the Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition (the “Competition Law”).