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Turkey has introduced a mandatory central registration system for e-commerce activities. Accordingly, service providers doing e-commerce business through their own e-commerce platforms, intermediary service providers enabling third parties to conduct e-commerce activities through their e-commerce platforms, plus service providers […]

The European Competition Commission recently issued a €2.42 billion fine to Google for abusing its market dominance as a search engine by granting advantages to its own comparison shopping service. In general, Turkey tends to follow European competition law […]

The Consumer Arbitration Committee (“Committee”) considers and make decisions on consumer conflicts worth up to 3,610 Turkish Lira. From 11 August 2017, applicants the Committee are no longer required to submit a signed copy of their application within fifteen […]

There are two main types of enforcement actions available in Turkey, intended respectively for circumstances where a judgment exists (“Judgment-Based”) and where a judgment does not exist (“Non Judgment-Based”). The highest body within Turkey’s Supreme Court recently clarified that […]

Turkey’s Ministry of Economy has updated secondary legislation to increase the lower and upper limits for administrative fines which are applied for supplying and distributing unsafe products to the market. The revised thresholds involve significant increases particularly for suppliers […]

Turkey has repealed a 1924 law which required certain businesses to have a weekly holiday on Sundays. Non-exempt workplaces were previously also required to apply to local administrations for a license to work on Sundays. This license requirement and […]

The summary of the Decisions of the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Economy Communiqués published between 1 August 2017 and 31 August 2017 regarding the prevention of unfair competition in imports are given below. Provisional Measures Regarding […]

Taxpayers in Turkey can file lawsuits against assessments of tax bases, provided their declaration included a reservation annotation and was made by the relevant deadline. Taxpayers cannot add a reservation annotation if their declaration was made after the deadline […]

Turkey has extended the deadline for eligible energy projects to benefit from exemptions and discounts, adding five further years to become operational. Qualifying projects must now become operational by 31 December 2025 in order to receive the incentives available […]

The following article gives a summary of decrees by the Council of Ministers and communiqués by the Ministry of Economy regarding prevention of unfair competition in imports, made between 1 August 2017 and 31 August 2017. Provisional Measures Applied […]