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The company also has two Ramstores in Kazakhstan and 28 Ramstores in North Macedonia.
8.2.4 Agriculture corporate news
8.2.5 TMT corporate news
Turkish AB InBev Efes’ volumes in Russia increased in the low double digits in 3Q20, outperforming the market and strengthening its leadership position with a total market share of close to 30%.
Istanbul-listed Coca Cola Icecek (CCOLA), controlled by local conglomerate Anadolu Group, is targeting an increase in its consolidated sales volume of 4-6% y/y in 2021.
Google’s YouTube, China’s TikTok, France’s video-sharing platform Dailymotion, the US’ LinkedIn, Russia’s VKontakte appointed representatives in Turkey in line with the country’s new social media law.
Facebook will appoint too.
Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority imposed
advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest.
In April, the bandwidth of rebel companies will be throttled by an initial 50%. In May, the throttling will be stepped up to 90% if the companies have still not complied with the demand for the appointment of a local representative.
The throttling would thus become so severe that any platform impacted by it would be rendered unusable in Turkey.
In November and December, the Turkish government fined Facebook, along with its Instagram platform, as well as Twitter, YouTube and TikTok under the first two steps of punishment outlined by the new law after they did not appoint the required representatives.
Facebook has around 37mn subscribers in Turkey, a country of 83mn. The Facebook personnel that deal with Turkey are based in London.
Facebook’s Instagram has 39mn Turkish subscribers.
Twitter has 14mn users in Turkey while the country is among TikTok’s largest markets, providing it with around 30mn subscribers.
The number of Netflix subscribers in Turkey rose to more than 3mn in December from around 1.5mn in 2019.
In December, Turkey fined Amazon’s country representative Turkish lira (TRY) 1.2mn ($0.2mn) right after they were appointed.
Turkish judges “issue approximately 12,000 internet blocking and removal decisions each year, and over 450,000 websites and 140,000 URLs are currently blocked from Turkey.”
“Even when the Constitutional Court finds a violation as in the cases of Wikipedia, Sendika.Org, and others, the lower courts constantly ignore the decisions of the Constitutional Court.”
All of the members of the constitutional court have been appointed during the era of Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the lower courts have a habit of ignoring its decisions in other fields too, giving
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