Turkish Competition Authority

08/22/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/22/2025 00:29

A decision to launch an investigation on the Economic Unity composed of Alphabet Inc., Google Ireland Limited, Google LLC, Google International LLC and Google Reklamcılık ve[...]

An investigation has been opened about GOOGLE in order to determine whether GOOGLE violated the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition (the Act no 4054) according to article 41 of the same Act.

The subject of the file is the allegation that GOOGLE violated article 6 of the Act no 4045 by urging the application developers who want to distribute applications in GOOGLE's application store, Play Store, to use its own payment system, Google Play Billing (GPB), and preventing application developers from informing their users about alternative payment channels.

Having discussed the information and documents acquired and observations made in the preliminary inquiry in its meeting on 07.08.2025, the Competition Board considered that the findings were significant and sufficient, and took the decision numbered 25-29/680-M that an investigation shall be opened about GOOGLE.

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