Basak Tekcam

Basak Tekcam is Deputy Head of the 1st Supervision and Enforcement Department at Turkish Competition Authority since January 2023. Her focus is on the competition law practices in information technologies, platform services, media, advertising and publishing services. In her current position, she supervises preliminary inquiry, investigation, and examination of merger and exemption. She is also responsible to follow the developments in global competition enforcement in digital sectors to improve competition law and policy in Turkey. Before her appointment as Deputy Head, she worked as a case handler and contributed to several cases involving mergers, abuses of dominant positions, cartels and vertical restraints. Basak is a graduate in Economics at the Middle East Technical University and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from City University of London.