It is well-known fact that the infrastructure and transaction costs are quite high for the undertakings who operates in the broadband internet access services market. Thus, it is crystal clear that the recent regulations of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (“ICTA”) do...

In 2015 many developments were staged ranging from legislative works to sector reports, precedent setting decisions to approximately 25 new investigations. During 2015 the Turkish Competition Authority closely monitored the daily commercial decisions and behaviors of dominant firms. In...

The public private partnership (PPP) is one of the investment models recently used notably in the healthcare sector in Turkey, with the aim of ensuring better and qualified infrastructure service in that sector as well as in other sectors. Since PPP contracts are long term contracts, and there...

In general, price discounts provided in return of certain customer behaviors are called “rebate systems.” In regard to competition law, rebate systems arise as a result of either unilateral behavior of the supplier or through a meeting of the minds between customer and supplier. Rebate...

Following our numerous publications on competition law and economics, the Competition and Regulation Department of Balcıoğlu Selçuk Akman Keki Attorney Partnership herein sheds light on Rebate Systems, an area in which we specialize.New types of infringements with regard to retailers,...

One of the interesting antitrust cases in Turkey in 2017 is the investigation of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) concerning 13 international banks, for their conducts in syndicated loan markets. Even though the TCA has given its decision at the end of 2017, the full decision published...

By means of tight and experienced review of mergers and adequately improved antitrust agency supervision, monopolization or abuse of dominance cases have diminished progressively both in US and EU. The focus now is on cartels and inefficient oligopolies. Cartels are not problematic as they...