Unfair Competition Under Turkish Commercial Code

Unfair competition has been set forth between Articles 54 and 63 in Turkish Commercial Code ("TCC") numbered 6102. In Article 54 of TCC, the purpose of the provisions of unfair competition was defined as "to establish a fair and uncorrupted competition in favor of all participants". In the second paragraph of the same article, it is mentioned that the misleading acts and commercial practices to affect the relations between competitors or between providers and customers or contrary to good faith are unfair and illegal. The scope of the unfair competition was explained under this article.

Article 55 of TCC includes six major unfair competition cases. According to this article, the major unfair competition cases are;