hi Turkey, privatization entered into the political agenda in the 1980s. In the 1990s, there were significant policy changes favoring privatizations but most of the attempts made failed to produce privatizations in the end. The privatization movement in Turkey gained real momentum with the new miUennium; especially in the last five years, the number of privatizations has reached record figures. Leaving political factors aside, this is a result of legal reforms that created an efficient system by conducting privatization through an independent public authority - the Privatization Authority. On the other hand, Turkey introduced modern competition regulations in the late 1990s which created another independent public authority, the Competition Authority. The Competition Authority is at the center of enforcement of competition laws. Naturally, privatization and competition laws are interrelated. Turkish legal system has produced a set of rules to prevent anti-competitive situations after privatization, so the Competition Authority plays an important role in the privatization process. There is a need to discuss the role of competition law in the Turkish privatization process at all stages of the privatization process; this article attempts to fill that need.