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Nil Zeren Özdemir works as an Associate in Competition and Compliance Department of Erdem & Erdem. Nil Zeren mainly provides legal consultancy on competition law matters including investigations and mergers and acquisitions.

Competition Boards Doğuş Otomotiv Decision on Vertical Restrictions in Labor Markets Newsletter Articles
Competition Boards Doğuş Otomotiv Decision on Vertical Restrictions in Labor Markets

Doğuş Otomotiv Servis ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Doğuş) applied to the Turkish Competition Authority for an exemption for the practice of recommending basic wages to be applied to sales and after-sales service employees of its authorized dealers and distributors...

Competition Law 31.07.2024
Recent Developments in Competition Law Practices Regarding Digital Markets Newsletter Articles
Recent Developments in Competition Law Practices Regarding Digital Markets

Competition authorities around the world continue unabated to investigate competition concerns arising from data collection and processing activities of digital platforms and impose severe sanctions as a result...

Competition Law 31.03.2024
Turkish Competition Board’s Sunny Decision on Resale Price Maintenance and Indirect Information Newsletter Articles
Turkish Competition Board’s Sunny Decision on Resale Price Maintenance and Indirect Information

The Competition Board ("Board") made an addition to its line of decisions on resale price maintenance with its decision on Sunny Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. ("Sunny") . In its decision, the Board thoroughly examined the allegations regarding Sunny's involvement in maintaining resale prices and restricting...

Competition Law 30.11.2023
Competition Law Practices in the Online Advertising Market Newsletter Articles
Competition Law Practices in the Online Advertising Market

Online advertising has become an important source for businesses for promoting products and services and meeting consumers, as a result of the rapid development of information technologies and increase in the use of internet. Delivering targeted messages to consumers at the right time through the digital...

Competition Law 30.06.2023
The Problem of Returning the Data Obtained as a Result of Unlawful Notification in Light of the Competition Board Decision Newsletter Articles
The Problem of Returning the Data Obtained as a Result of Unlawful Notification in Light of the Competition Board Decision

Recently, the Competition Board (the Board) had imposed administrative fines on banks and financial institutions for failing to respond to the request for information within the scope of a preliminary investigation.[i] The request for information that lays the groundwork for the administrative fine imposed by...

Competition Law 28.02.2023
Is the Missing Piece of the Puzzle Found in the Intersection Between GDPR and Antitrust Law? Newsletter Articles
Is the Missing Piece of the Puzzle Found in the Intersection Between GDPR and Antitrust Law?

The German Competition Authority (“Bundeskartellamt”) had previously found Meta (formerly Facebook) responsible for abusing its dominant position in the social network market by collecting and processing the personal data of its users without their consent and imposed measures on Meta and its associated...

Personal Data Protection 31.10.2022
A Different Approach to Monetary Fines for Hindering On-Site Inspection: The Decision of the Ankara II. Administrative Court Newsletter Articles
A Different Approach to Monetary Fines for Hindering On-Site Inspection: The Decision of the Ankara II. Administrative Court

While the scope of Competition Board’s (“Board”) power to conduct on-site inspections has increased with the introduction of Guidelines on Examination of Digital Data during On-site Inspections (“Guidelines”), nowadays the amount of monetary fines imposed on undertakings continue to...

Competition Law 31.07.2022
Turkish Competition Authority Releases 2023 Annual Report Legal Developments
Turkish Competition Authority Releases 2023 Annual Report

The annual report (Report) regarding the activities of the Turkish Competition Authority (Authority) for the year 2023 was published on the official website of the Authority. The Report examines the main elements of the Authority’s activities, strategic objectives, its mission and vision, its role in the national economy...

Competition Law 20.08.2024
Bundeskartellamt’s Deutsche Bahn Decision Legal Developments
Bundeskartellamt’s Deutsche Bahn Decision

The Bundeskartellamt decided on June 26, 2023 that (Decision) several practices and contractual clauses used by the German national railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) in relation to rival mobility platforms constitute an abuse of market power in the mobility services market...

Competition Law 14.08.2023
Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the Applicability of Personal Data Protection Rules to Competition Law was announced Legal Developments
Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the Applicability of Personal Data Protection Rules to Competition Law was announced

In its judgment of July 4, 2023 (Decision), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the national competition authorities may rely on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in their investigation in respect of abuse of dominant position...

Competition Law 02.08.2023

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