Evren Sesli, Author at Kluwer Competition Law Blog

Assessment of Information Exchange Fines Under Turkish Competition Law Regime: Sector Specific Justifications May Not Be Enough to Prevent the Violations!

Evren Sesli, Armanc Canbeyli (BASEAK)/October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 /Leave a comment

Competition law, at its core, is a case law based practice. The natural habitat of enforcement for competition rules is the consolidation of bilateral and multilateral commercial relationships that we came to know as the system of economy. In an effort to maximize the consumer welfare (and eventually the total welfare via innovation and creative…

Exemptions, Türkiye

Is it taking too long?: An Analysis of the Turkish Competition Authority’s Individual Exemption Assessments

Sahin Ardiyok, Evren Sesli, Ramiz Arslan (BASEAK)/June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 /Leave a comment

While the Article 4 of the Turkish Competition Act prohibits the anticompetitive agreements, concerted practices and decisions, Article 5 covers the exemption from this prohibition as in the 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (“TFEU”). According to the Article 5 of the Competition Act, Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) can grant…