The Istanbul Center for Regulation aims at establishing itself as the region’s center in matters of regulation and regulatory policies pertaining both to the traditional and the new network industries, namely telecommunications, postal services, transport, energy, water and the newly emerging digital platforms.

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We provide thought leadership for practitioners, i.e., policy-makers, regulators and regulated firms facing rapid changes due to liberalization and digitalization.

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We do so by way of highly structured, problem-centered and result-oriented forums involving all the relevant stakeholders, high-level conferences, executive trainings and policy advice.

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The Center is operating under the auspices of Istanbul Technical University. It is governed by a board composed of regulators and donor firms. Its academic integrity is assured by way of a scientific advisory board.

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Regulation of Civil Aviation in Turkey

This issue of NIQ-Turkey is about the regulation of civil aviation in Turkey and beyond. Civil aviation is of course a global business with most of the rules and standards being defined at international levels (UN, EU, USA). And Turkey, with its flag carrier Turkish...

Electric Vehicle Ecosystem in Turkey: Emerging Issues and Future Outlook

I am delighted to be guest editor of this issue of Network Industries Quarterly-Turkey, entitled “Electric Vehicle Ecosystem in Turkey: Emerging Issues and Future Outlook”. Electric vehicles (EVs) are an emerging technology in today’s transportation industry. While...

Electricity Market in Turkey

I am very pleased to be guest editor of this issue of Network Industries Quarterly-Turkey, entitled Electricity market in Turkey: How it is coping with demands from liberalization policies. Electricity has maintained its importance as the main energy source in the...

Communications infrastructures in Turkey: have they been facing up to the challenges of the growing communications needs in times of COVID-19?

We are pleased to present to you the second issue of our newly established Network Industries Quarterly-Turkey. In it, we pursue the topic of how COVID-19 affects our essential infrastructures. After transport in the last issue, we are now looking at Turkey’s...

How resilient is the Turkish transportation system? Lessons learnt from COVID-19

Welcome to our first issue of Network Industries Quarterly Turkey, NIQ-TK in short! From now on, you will find a NIQ-TK every three months! NIQ-TK is an offspring of NIQ, the Network Industries Quarterly which has been published 4 times a year since 1998! If you have...

Turkish Competition Board (“TCB”) Has Launched an Investigation Against Facebook for its Recent Implementation Concerning Data Sharing Preferences

Feb 2, 2021 | IC4R Series

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging application in Turkey, although Instagram and Facebook are the most popular social media. According to the 2020 Report by Gemius,2 Instagram has 40,080,825 users in Turkey, Facebook has 31,236,479 users, and Twitter…

Special issue of Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (CRNI) on “Regulating district heating”

Nov 20, 2020 | Call for papers

In the context of decarbonization, district heating is bound to have a promising future, especially if heat (or cold) is generated from renewable energy sources (e.g., waste treatment plants, geothermal sources). However, district heating displays all the...

Special issue of Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (CRNI) on “Competition versus Sector-specific Regulation”

Nov 20, 2020 | Call for papers

Ever since the de- and re-regulation of the network industries, competition regulation and sector-specific regulation overlap, in some sectors, more than in others. This special issue of CRNI will look at how competition and sector-specific regulation overlap both...

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