Ayberk Kurt
Competition Lawyer
Ayberk is the Authority’s Competition Lawyer. He joined the Authority in March 2023. Ayberk has worked as a competition lawyer since 2016 and has been involved in many merger cases (including Phase II procedures) and investigations before the Turkish Competition Authority. He has also created tailor made competition compliance programs for his clients.
Since joining the GCRA, Ayberk has been involved in the full range of work undertaken by the Authority. This has included all aspects of competition law investigations from case opening through to appeals, telecoms regulation, assessments of mergers and acquisitions and general governance and compliance matters.
Ayberk gained his LLB degree from Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey and holds an LLM degree in Law & Economics from the European Master in Law & Economics Programme (EMLE). During his master’s year, he studied in Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Vienna. Ayberk also has a certificate in EU Competition Law from the College of Europe