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Google slowly leaving Turkey, more to follow
  • Google has told its Turkish business partners it will not be able to work with them on new Android phones to be released in Turkey, after the Turkish competition board ruled that changes Google made to its contracts were not acceptable.

    Turkey’s competition authority had fined Google 93 million lira ($17.4 million) in September 2018 for violating competition law with its mobile software sales. The company was given six months to make changes to restore competition.

    Turkey’s competition board ruled on Nov. 7 that changes which Google made in its contracts with its business partners in line with the board’s demands were inadequate as they still did not allow changes to the default search engine.

    The regulator had asked Google to change all its software distribution agreements to allow consumers to choose different search engines in its Android mobile operating system. The probe was triggered by a filing by Russian competitor Yandex.

    Google hope to keep being total search monopoly on Android phones, but it is slowly coming to an end.

    Actual reason for such move is that Alphabet investors are also Apple investors and they want to hurt Android sales as much as possible in areas where Apple is feeling bad especially, as it is more important and brings more profits.