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From a very hard point of view; anyone can try to buy from any retailer they wish, but retailers should not be able to sell to everyone.
There is almost always a way to claim damage and illegality in commercial law (which includes all things we talked about in this topic) and unfair competition is like the grandaddy of all those ways.
Think of this example: As a imaginary business owner, I could also claim that a store that sells imported DVDs from USA hurts my business in Istanbul and as long as the goverment doesn't impose some taxes and write laws to make my prices and late availability competitive, the store that sells the imported DVDs are commiting the offense of unfair competition. It might not even need to be a store, I could even sue a kid selling the DVD in our local eBay variant for unfair competition.
Keep this in mind and look at my second point:
Laws are national and their purpose is the create a balance between private persons and the community. So, protecting the local DVD business serves the common good.
So, thinking both those things, it becomes clear that there is a possibility to sue someone who sells the region locked DVD, but the important point is that does not mean you can sue the kid who bought the DVD.
Actually if I were a lawmaker, I would impose taxes on imported region restricted media to protect national businesses and prevent unfair competition.
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