Hasan Hüseyin ÜNLÜ

Member of the Board

Born in the Yalıntaş village of Nevşehir in 1974, Hasan Hüseyin Ünlü had his primary education in France, completing his secondary and high school education at the Nevşehir İmam-Hatip High School. He graduated from the Public Administration Department of the Political Science Faculty at Ankara University, passed the exam held by the Turkish Competition Authority in 1998, and took office at the Authority as an Assistant Competition Expert.

In 2002, his thesis titled “The Concept of Parties in Competition Law Investigations and the Rights of the Parties” was accepted and he was appointed as a Competition Expert. In 2008, he did his post-graduate degree in the field of “Competition, Consumption and Intellectual Property Rights” at the Rennes-1 University in France (BAC+5), with a three-month internship as part of his post-graduate studies at the “General Directorate of Unfair Competition, Consumers and Competition” under the French Ministry of Trade, and he completed his post-graduate work following the acceptance of his dissertation titled “Settlement Procedures in Competition Law”.

He was appointed as a Chief Competition Expert on December 15, 2009 and as a Department Head on November 18, 2011. He served as the Head of the Supervision and Enforcement Department-I between November 18, 2011 and April 16, 2015, and as the Head of the Supervision and Enforcement Department-IV from April 16 to July 2, 2015.

Mr. Ünlü was appointed as the Vice President on July 2, 2015, where he continued to serve until July 25, 2018. He then took office as a Member of the Competition Board with the Presidential Decision numbered 2018/46, published on the Official Gazette of July 25, 2018, numbered 30489. He was appointed as a Member of the Competition Board again with the Presidential Decision numbered 2022/426 published in the Official Gazette of September 3, 2022 and numbered 31942.

Hasan Hüseyin ÜNLÜ is married, with three children. He is fluent in French and has a good command of English.