Ahmet Fatih Ozkan

This case note analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has unconditionally cleared in Phase I the acquisition of the sole control of SanDisk by Western Digital in the market for data memory systems. The Operation On 4 December 2015, the TCA received a (...)

This case note analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has rejected the complaint of a rival IT company, Yandex, that agreements of a major IT company, Google, with a number of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on the exclusive pre-installation of its (...)

This case note analyses the judgment of the Turkish Court of Appeals in which it has decided that private actions for damages are subject to a limitation period of eight years, which begins when the claimant applies to the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) prior to bringing a follow-on (...)

This case note analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has decided that consumer electronics suppliers and retailers did not restrict competition by exchanging information with regard to price increases and decreases. Background Opened ex officio, the (...)

This case note analyses the decision of the Ankara Administrative Court in which it has annulled the decision of Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) to reject the complaint that Congresium ATO abused its dominant position by refusing to organise a furniture and decoration fair in its convention (...)

This case note analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has closed the investigation it launched into an electricity retail sale company, AYESAS, for unilaterally including most of the eligible customers into its own portfolio without signing an agreement (...)

This case note analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has fined five private teaching institutions operating in the city of Tokat on the grounds that they formed a cartel to fix fees and limit discount rates for their services between the years 2009 and (...)

This study analyses the judgment of the Turkish Council of State in which it has annulled the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority to conditionally clear in Phase II the merger of the two largest cinema chains in Turkey on the grounds that the merger remedies were insufficient to (...)

This study analyses the judgment of the Ankara Administrative Court in which it has annulled the decision of Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) to impose fines on MPS Metal and Bekap Metal for bid rigging, price coordination and exchange of information in the market for packaging steel straps (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has decided that the ex-state-owned oil refinery, TUPRAS, abused its dominant position by charging excessive prices contrary to its tariffs for a period of three months and by imposing unfair trading (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has decided that optimum price system of the multinational producer of hygiene, health and home care products, Reckitt Benckiser, did not amount to resale price maintenance, but its non-competition clauses (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Ankara Administrative Court in which it has annulled the decision of Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) to reject the allegations that Turkish Airlines engaged in predatory pricing and abused regulatory procedures in the market for domestic and (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has closed the investigation it launched ex officio into alleged resale price maintenance of the market leader LPG distribution company, AYGAZ, due to a lack of appreciable effect on competition in the LPG (...)

This study analyses the announcement of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has informed bread manufacturers about the competition rules that are to be complied with in the industry and made it clear that some practices that are common among bread manufacturers across Turkey, (...)

This study analyses the press release of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has warned driving schools not to infringe Article 4 of the Act on the Protection of Competition 1994 (the Act) by fixing the prices and discount rates for driving courses, sharing markets and trainees, (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has rejected the claims that Turkish Airlines engaged in predatory pricing and abused regulatory procedures in the market for domestic and international flights with a view to driving one of its competitor, (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has cleared the merger of the two largest cinema chains in Turkey in Phase II conditional upon the divesture of twelve cinemas and notification of average ticket prices for a period of five years, which were (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has granted total immunity to SunExpress and reduced the amount of fine of Condor by 50 percent, after SunExpress applied for leniency and disclosed the existence of the agreements it signed with Condor (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority in which it has cleared the acquisition of Tiglon, active in the film production market and the third largest firm in the theatrical distribution market, by Fida Film, dominant on the market for screen advertising in cinemas, (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has decided that a company formed by three manufacturers of school uniforms could not be regarded as a joint-venture, nor could it be given an individual exemption. Although the formation of the company was (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has closed its abuse of dominance investigation into the state-owned Kirikkale intercity coach station (KISOT) after six months from its previous cease-and-desist order to halt potentially abusive refusal to (...)

This study focuses on the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority ("TCA") regarding Anadolu Cam, who was found to have abused its dominant position on the industrial glass packaging market by bidding selective prices in a tender in order to drive the new entrant Marmara Cam out of the (...)

This study analyses the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) in which it has decided that a price-fixing agreement, which was entered into by twelve small- and medium-sized bread manufacturers in a small town in the West of Turkey, did not appreciably restrict competition even (...)

This study focuses on the decision of the Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) regarding Bilsa, who was found to have abused its dominant position on the market for school management software by the use of a software database encryption which made the user schools dependent to Bilsa’s products (...)

This study focuses on the ruling of the Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) regarding a “leverage” of Warner Bros Turkey, who was found to have abused its dominant position it has on film distribution market, in order to gain anticompetitive advantages on film exhibition market by determining the (...)