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Abuse of dominance, Comparison shopping, Digital competition, Google, Self-preferencing, Türkiye

Google Removes Display of Its Shopping Unit in Turkey After the Remedy Phase of the Turkish Competition Authority’s (TCA) Google Shopping Decision Gets Stuck

Bahadir Balki, Erdem Aktekin (ACTECON)/September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 /1 Comment

On 29th of July, Google announced[1] that starting from 10th of August, it will be removing shopping ads (or “the Shopping Unit” as referred by the TCA as well as by the EU Commission) from its search pages in Turkey. According to the tech giant, the decision was taken because of the uncertainties surrounding the…

Online advertising, Self-preferencing, Türkiye

Capacity to Sue of Consumers Whose Interests Are Affected Was Held Under the Microscope of the Administrative Courts in Turkey

Aybert Kurt, Alper Karafil (ACTECON)/March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 /Leave a comment

The issue of the “appropriate claimant” or the capacity to sue always comes into question at the stage of the judicial review of the decisions of the competition authorities. It is not as easy as it may seem from the first glance, and the case law of the Administrative courts in Turkey is a proof…