The Turkish Competition Authority concludes its preliminary investigation into the market for car rental services and finds no evidence of anticompetitive exchange of information restricting competition (ALD Automotive / Celik Motor / Garanti Filo...)

On 31 January 2023, Turkish Competition Authority’s (“TCA”) decision dated 21 July 2022 and numbered 22-33/526-212 regarding a preliminary investigation into the car rental services market (the “Decision”) was published on the TCA’S official website. Back in 2020, the TCA started this preliminary investigation in order to determine whether the undertakings that are engaged in car rental activities violated Article 4 of Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Competition Law”). Within this scope, the TCA conducted on-site inspections on the premises of twelve undertakings and took copies of more than a hundred findings. In the Decision, the TCA concluded that there was no evidence showing that undertakings operating in the car rental services market were party to an exchange of