State news agency Anadolu on Friday said Turkey’s competition authority fined Google 196.7 million lira ($25.54 million) for abusing its dominant position in the online search market.
Google “intensively” uses tactics on its search engine to block rivals in the online advertising business, an investigation by Turkish competition authority found, the report said.
The competition investigation included Google’s Turkey branch as well as Google International, Google Ireland Limited and Alphabet Inc.
In February, Turkey slammed 98.3 million lira ($12.7 million) fine on Google over similar anti-trust charges.
