Berfu Akgun

I. Introduction The Competition Board (“Board”) launched a full-fledged investigation against Arçelik Pazarlama AŞ (“Arçelik”), BSH Ev Aletleri San. ve Tic. AŞ (“BSH”), Gürses Kurumsal Tedarik ve Elektronik Tic. Paz. AŞ (“Gürses Kurumsal”), LG Electronics Tic. AŞ (“LG”), Samsung Electronics İstanbul Paz. (...)

The Ankara 9 th Administrative Court (“Administrative Court”) annulled the decision of the Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) where an administrative fine of TL 11,214,051.26 was imposed on Hicri Ercili Deniz Nakliyat Kimyevi Maddeler San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.) (“Hicri Ercili”), a supplier of the (...)

The Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) decided that Şişecam, through its subsidiary Çevre Sistemleri, has abused its dominant position in the market for glass manufacturing, by way of excluding its competitors in the upstream market for recycled glass, utilized its buyer power to narrow the margin (...)

Introduction Article 4 of Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition prohibits the fixing of : the purchase or sale price of goods or services ; elements such as cost and profit that form price ; and any other terms of purchase or sale. On 24 August 2021, the Competition Authority (...)

On April 20, 2021, the Turkish Competition Authority (“Authority”) announced on its website that the Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) had launched a full-fledged investigation against thirty-two undertakings for gentlemen’s agreements in labor markets across Turkey, in order to determine whether (...)

In an effort to take one step further in harmonizing the Turkish Competition Law with the EU legislation, the Turkish Competition Authority (“Authority”) has recently introduced the settlement mechanism under Article 43 of the Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Law No. 4054”) and the (...)