Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) launched an investigation against one of the leading online shopping sites, Hepsiburada.com and a supplier, Anka Mobil. The Authority aims to investigate the claims that Hepsiburada.com and Anka Mobil has violated antitrust rules by MFN/MFC clauses, discrimination, restricting intra-brand competition, refusal to sell and resale price maintenance (RPM). (Board Decision – 20.06.2019, 19-22/326-M)
TCA had conducted two major investigations on MFN/MFC clauses against Booking and Yemeksepeti, major online platforms for hotel search and online food order/delivery respectively. TCA fined two companies for violation of antitrust rules and decided to remove MFN/MFC clauses from the agreements
On the other hand, Turkish Authority conducted numerous RPM investigations recently. Since September 2018, TCA fined Maysan Mando, Turkcell, Türk Henkel and Sony Eurasia for RPM practices.
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