Recent Development

The Turkish Medicine and Medical Devices Authority announced that it re-evaluated the limitations on product promotion representatives leaving promotional materials during their visits to healthcare organizations within the scope of measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, product promotion representatives will be able to leave promotional materials for doctors, dentists, and pharmacists who request it during visits. You may find this announcement of the Authority from the announcements section of the website.

Recent Developments

Law No. 7256 on the Restructuring of Certain Receivables and Amendment of Certain Laws has been published in the Official Gazette No. 31307, dated 17 November 2020 (“Law“), and has entered into force. The Law introduces new incentives and supports relating to working life.

According to the announcement published on the Competition Authority’s (“Authority”) website on 06.11.2020, the Competition Authority applied the newly adopted commitment mechanism, a novelty of changes to the Law No. 4054 on Protection of Competition (“Law No. 4054“), for the first time with the Competition Board’s (“Board”) decision dated 05.11.2020.