Turkish Antitrust: An overview of national case law

1. Introduction This Special Issue aims to provide detailed insight into the contemporary approaches adopted by the Turkish Competition Board (“Board”), the decisional body of the Turkish Competition Authority (“Authority”) regarding anticompetitive agreements, unilateral conduct and mergers. The approaches adopted by the Board in its recent precedent are heavily influenced by global trends such as the close scrutiny over digital players as well as increasing attention towards competition law issues concerning labour markets. The substantive analysis regarding the anticompetitive agreements, unilateral conduct, and mergers has been shaped by Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Law No. 4054”) as well as the secondary legislation. Further to Law No. 4054, there are several