Turkey's competition authority probes Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode

On November 2, 2026, the Turkish Competition Authority announced that it had launched an investigation to determine whether the AI Overviews and AI Mode features in Google Search violate the country's Competition Protection Law. In its statement, the authority laid out the areas it will scrutinize: how AI Overviews and AI Mode change the way users access information, and whether those changes have adversely affected traffic to news publishers and other content creators. The investigation will also examine whether content-use agreements signed with news publishers contain unfair contractual terms, and whether the two features have had exclusionary effects on news publishers, other content creators, and AI chatbots. In addition, the authority will look into whether there is differential treatment when selecting or licensing news publishers' content to serve as sources for AI Overviews and AI Mode. The authority said it would simultaneously impose interim regulatory measures on Google to regulate how news publishers' content is used in AI-driven search, citing existing indications that Google's AI search features are highly likely to involve exclusionary and exploitative behavior toward news publishers. The investigation is at its opening stage.