Baran Can Yıldırım is a senior associate at ELIG Gürkaynak based in their Istanbul office. He provides legal advice to national and multinational clients concerning competition law and data protection. He mainly deals with abuse of dominance cases, restrictive practices and cartel investigations. He holds a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) from Istanbul Commerce University and a Master of Law (LL.M.) from Washington University School of Law. He is admitted to Istanbul Bar since 2014. He is fluent in English.
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Introduction The Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) initiated in September 2022 a preliminary investigation against Krea İçerik Hizmetleri ve Prodüksiyon A.Ş. (“Krea”), a company holding exclusive broadcasting rights of the Turkish Super League and Turkish First Division League football (...)
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This case summary includes an analysis of the Turkish Competition Board’s (“Board”) Trendyol Interim Measure decision in which the Board, upon the findings of its preliminary investigation, determined that DSM Grup Danışmanlık İletişim ve Satış Ticaret A.Ş.’s (“Trendyol”) use of algorithms and (...)
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Introduction On July 15, 2021, the Turkish Competition Authority (“Authority”) issued the Regulation on Settlement Procedure for Investigations on Anticompetitive Agreements, Concerted Practices, Decisions and Abuse of Dominant Position (“Settlement Regulation”), which was also published in (...)
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1. Introduction The draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Contestable and Fair Markets in the Digital Sector (Digital Markets Act) (“DMA Proposal”) was announced by the European Commission (“Commission”) on December 15, 2020. The DMA Proposal envisages the (...)
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The Factors Affecting the Use of Essential Facilities Doctrine in Light of the Lithuanian Railway v Commission Decision: A Comparison with the Turkish Practice and Potential Implications 1) Introduction On November 18, 2020, the General Court of the European Union (“General Court”) upheld (...)
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(1) Introduction In 2018, in its Enerjisa decision, the Turkish Competition Board (“ Board ”) had imposed administrative fines amounting to a total of TRY 143 million on three retail electricity sales companies (namely AYESAŞ, BAŞKENT and TOROSLAR) (together, the “ RESCs ”) and one (...)
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (“ CJEU ”), in its recent decision with regard to the two joint cases (C‐807/18 and C‐39/19) brought before it for preliminary ruling, addressed how incompatibility with net neutrality shall be assessed under the relevant legislation regarding open (...)
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The Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) on March 23, 2020 gave its heads up to undertakings that it was “closely following the price increases”, which it referred to as “opportunistic” during the pandemic . As such, the TCA warned in its announcement that it will impose the highest fines (...)
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Turkish Competition Authority Reiterates: Labor Market is Subject to Competition Law Enforcement* Anti-competitive practices in the labor markets have generally not been on the radar of the competition watchdogs. Given the increase in the number of cases dealing with the labor markets within (...)
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Turkish Competition Law
