The Regulation of Turkish Network Industries

This book brings together academics and experts on Turkish network industries. It provides fundamental information on the current developments regarding regulation of the different network industries in Turkey. Turkey has gone through a liberalization process in most of the network industries during the past 20 years. In most of them, independent regulatory authorities have been established, but some network industries are still remaining under the central or local government regulatory regime. As a result, there is now a very complicated regulatory regime in place which makes Turkey’s regulatory system difficult to understand for practitioners, academics, lawyers, researchers and investors.

This book offers unique insight into Turkey’s regulatory regime in various network industries. It also offers a historical background to regulation, a description of the current regulatory regimes, as well as an analysis of the foreseeable evolutions. The book covers all the important network industries in Turkey. No similar book is available on the market to date. Moreover, the book provides an extensive analysis of the current regulatory regimes in the energy, the transport, and the telecommunications industries.

This book should be of interest to anyone wishing to understand Turkish regulation and will be very helpful handbook to researchers who are interested in regulation of network industries not only in Turkey but also in other developing countries, as Turkey is quite representative of other emerging countries. Readers will acquire a thorough understanding of the state of play of the Turkish network industries and their regulation.

Muzaffer EROGLU is an assistant professor at the University of Kocaeli; he lectures on the company law, energy law, and competition law. He holds an LLB from Ankara University, an LLM from the University of Kent, and a Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London. He is a member of the Ankara Bar.  His academic research focuses on company law, corporate governance, competition law, and energy law. He published a book “Multinational Enterprises and Tort Liabilities.” He has several publications in the field of company law, competition law, and energy law in both English and Turkish. He also carried out researches as a visiting academic at the University of Oslo, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, and European Institute of Florence.

Matthias FINGER is a professor emeritus in charge of Digital Governance and Regulation at the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Geneva. He has been an assistant professor at Syracuse University, New York; an associate professor at Columbia University, New York; a professor of Management of Public Enterprises at the Swiss Federal Institute of Public Administration; and between 2002 and 2020 the Swiss Post Chair in Management of Network Industries at EPFL. Since 2010, he is a part-time professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where he directs the Florence School of Regulation’s Transport Area (FSR-T). Since 2017, he is also a professor at the Faculty of Management at Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), directing the Istanbul Center for Regulation (IC4R).