The Competition Board's digital-markets posture is hardening

The Turkish Competition Board has issued a series of decisions over the last year that, taken together, signal a more interventionist stance toward digital markets. The cases are individually narrow but cumulatively significant.

MFNs are now a problem

Most Favoured Nation clauses, especially wide MFNs, are no longer presumptively safe. Marketplaces operating in Türkiye should treat them as defendable only with a clear efficiency justification.

Exclusivity and platform tying

Exclusive deals between platforms and large suppliers face new scrutiny under both the abuse-of-dominance and vertical-restraints frameworks.