Öykü Erdil, Author at Kluwer Competition Law Blog

New or Old-Fashioned Approach for the Market Definition: Turkish Competition Authority’s TveK/D&R Decision

Ertuğrul Can Canbolat, Baran Can Yıldırım, Öykü Erdil (ACTECON)/September 3, 2018September 3, 2018 /Leave a comment

On August 27, 2018, the Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) announced that it had unanimously cleared the acquisition of one of the largest retailers of various products such as books, periodicals, music, electronics, accessories, video games and toys (“D&R”) by another retailer & wholesaler of the relevant products (“TveK”).[1] Furthermore, the group of companies to which…

Market definition, Türkiye

Individual Exemption by the Turkish Competition Authority to the Cooperation between One of the Largest Retailers and Mobile App

Ertuğrul Can Canbolat, Baran Can Yıldırım, Öykü Erdil (ACTECON)/August 6, 2018August 27, 2018 /Leave a comment

The products and services surrounding mobile phones (e.g. mobile apps, browsers, search engines) have already proved to be a separate marketing tool for undertakings. This has triggered and created new challenges for competition law enforcement. Indeed, the competition authorities have had to deal with defining new relevant product markets and evaluating their market dynamics. In…