It was reported that the Turkish Competition Commission announced today that it had imposed a fine of more than 296 million lire (about 36.65 million U.S. dollars) on Google for abusing its dominant position in the search engine market.
In this regard, Google said in a statement that compared with competitors’ services, Google’s accommodation price comparison and local search services provided in Turkey have more advantages.
In addition to fines, the Turkish Competition Commission also stated that Google must ensure that within six months it has to treat its competitors fairly, and in the next five years, it will report this issue to the Turkish Competition Commission every year.
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Before, Turkey had fined Google several times. As early as September 2018, Turkey announced that it had imposed a fine of 93 million lire (approximately US$17.4 million) on Google because Google’s mobile software sales violated competition laws.
In November last year, Turkey imposed a 196.7 million lire (approximately US$25.6 million) antitrust fine on Google, claiming that its search algorithm and precision advertising service algorithm violated Turkey’s fair competition law.
In the past few years, Google has encountered antitrust fines in many countries around the world. Among them, the European Union issued three antitrust fines against Google, with a total fine of about 8.2 billion euros.
