Turkey fines Google for violating competition law

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s competition authority said on Thursday it had fined Google some 93 million Turkish lira ($15 million) for violating competition laws with its mobile software sales.

FILE PHOTO: A Google logo in an office building in Zurich September 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd WIegmann/File Photo

In a statement, the competition authority said Google LLC, Google International and Google Reklamcilik were given six months to make the necessary changes in order to “reinstill effective competition in the market and end the violation”.

($1 = 6.2712 liras)

Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen; Writing by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Alison Williams

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