Turkey: Cartels, Monopolies

The Turkish Competition Authority has issued several significant decisions in August 2026, including conditional approval of Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros., acceptance of commitments from ETS Tur regarding exclusivity practices in tourism, and administrative fines against Babymall for vertical restrictions. New investigations have been launched into TEVA's patent strategies and information exchange in plant protection markets, while the preliminary pharmaceutical sector inquiry highlights competiti

The Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) recently published its reasoned decision concerning a wide-ranging investigation into undertakings active in the production and sale of ready-mixed concrete in Aydın. The investigation concerned allegations of price fixing, customer and territorial allocation and resale price maintenance under Article 4 of Law No. 4054, which is broadly similar to Article 101 TFEU.

Competition enforcement has never been purely domestic, but the degree to which authorities today actively engage with their foreign counterparts, share investigative methodologies, and benchmark their findings against international practice has reached a level that would have seemed remarkable not long ago. Competition law and policy have, in parallel with globalisation, acquired an increasingly international character; cross-border cooperation between competition authorities is no longer confined to high-profile merger reviews or global cartel prosecutions, but permeates sector inquiries, investigations, and even the verification of individual arguments raised by investigated parties.

The Turkish Competition Authority has concluded a major investigation into the automotive tyre sector, uncovering widespread anti-competitive practices including price-fixing...

The Turkish Competition Authority maintained an exceptionally active enforcement agenda throughout May 2026, launching investigations into Meta's WhatsApp AI integration and imposing interim measures requiring Unilever to allocate freezer space to competitors. Significant developments included structural remedies mandating separation of casting agencies from production activities, settlements in labour market information exchange cases, and a landmark decision combining settlement and commitment mechanisms

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced criminal antitrust charges against four of the world’s largest shipping container manufacturers and seven executives over an alleged global cartel affecting the market for standard dry shipping containers.

Rekabet ihlallerine yönelik Rekabet Kurulu ("Kurul") tarafından verilen idari para cezalarının belirlenmesini düzenleyen Rekabeti Sınırlayıcı Anlaşma.

The Regulation on Administrative Fines for Restrictive Agreements, Concerted Practices, Decisions, and Abuse of Dominance, which governs the administrative fines issued by the Turkish Competition Board (the "Board") for competition law violations, has been renewed and published in the Official Gazette on 27 December 2024 and numbered 32765.

In September 2025, the UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") published a practical guide entitled Competing for Talent, focusing on how competition law applies in labour markets.