Reasoned Decision On The Investigation Conducted On Google Was Published

10 Apr 2025 Announcements

On 13.11.2020, the Competition Board (“Board”) has announced that the investigation into Google (the economic entity consisting of Google Advertising and Marketing Co. Ltd., Google International LLC, Google LLC, Google Ireland Limited, and Alphabet Inc.), which was conducted with the accusations of “abusing its dominant position by updating the general search services and impeding the enterprise activities with AdWords ads” has concluded. The summary of the decision was also published on the Board’s website.

As the conclusion of the investigation, the Board has determined that Google dominates the market of general search services and abusing its dominant position by impeding the organic results which do not generate advertising revenue in the market of content services by intensively placing uncertain quality text advertisements at the top of the general search results. The Board has decided to impose a 196.708.054,78 TL administrative fine on Google.
The 209-page reasoned decision on the investigation conducted on Google was published on the Board’s website on 28.06.2021.

Postponement of Cheques’ Presentation Periods

10 Apr 2025 Announcements

In the line of the measures and restrictions imposed throughout the country due to Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the presentation for encashment of the cheques of which the presentation period falls on between 30 April 2021 and 31 May 2021 (including these days) has been postponed to 1 June 2021 and thereafter, by a Provisional Article 3/1/A added into the Law on the Amendment of Some Laws No. 7226 and dated 25 March 2021 by the Article 15 of the Law on the Amendment of the Tax Procedural Law and Some Laws published in the Official Gazette on 30 April 2021.

The procedures and principles with regard to the application of the said provisional regulation on the postponement of the presentation of cheques have been determined by the Communique issued by the Ministry of Trade (“Communiqué”) published as well in the repeated version of the Official Gazette on 30 April 2021. You may find our publication on the Communiqué in the link below.

Postponement of Cheques Presentation Periods

Advertising Bans on the Social Network Providers

10 Apr 2025 Announcements

The Information Technologies and Communications Authority has respectively has imposed advertising bans on
the social network providers Pinterest, Twitter and Periscope, which failed to fulfill their obligation to appoint and notify a representative within thirty days from the notification of the second administrative fine. You may find our publication regarding the subject in the link below.

Advertising Ban on Social Network Providers

The Deadline Of Registration And The Transfer Of Approvals To IYS Has Been Postponed Once Again

10 Apr 2025 Announcements

The deadline for service providers to register with IYS (Message Management System) and the transfer of current commercial electronic messages approvals to IYS systems has been postponed once again.

According to the announcement published on the website of the Ministry of Commerce on 30th of November 2020;

  • The deadline to upload approvals for service providers which have over 150.000 commercial electronic message approvals has been postponed to 31 December 2020 and the deadline for the citizens to check these approvals to 15 February 2021.
  • The deadline to upload for service providers which have 150.000 or below commercial electronic message approvals has been postponed to 31 May 2021 and the deadline for the citizens to check these approvals to 15 July 2021.

Extention of the Term Regulated Under Turkish Commercial Code Provisional Article 13

10 Apr 2025 Announcements

The terms regulated under Turkish Commercial Code provisional Article 13 paragraph 1, which entails provisions regarding distribution of profits, has been extended by 3 months. Accordingly; “Equity companies may decide to distribute only up to twenty-five percent of the net profit for the year 2019, previous year profits and free reserve funds cannot be distributed, and the board of directors cannot be authorized to distribute dividends until 30/12/2020.”

Delay on the Date of Uploading Approval to the Message Management System

10 Apr 2025 Announcements

The Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages has been amended in the Official Gazette dated 28 August 2020 and numbered 31227. In accordance with the amendment, the last date of uploading approval to the Message Management System (IYS) by the service providers, has been postponed to 01 December 2020. Approvals will be checked by citizens until 16 January 2021; in case the right to refuse is not used, the data transferred to the IYS will be deemed approved.

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