Turkey
Turkey seizes fintech IQ Money in illegal betting prosecution
Twenty six suspects detained. Deposit insurance fund TMSF asked to take over yet another company.
Fitch upgrades Turkey’s Ziraat, Vakifbank and TSKB to three notches below investment grade
Says authorities have improved ability to support banking sector in FX in line with sovereign's better reserves position.
Pasifik Holding holds another Istanbul IPO despite hundreds of companies in queue
One beneficiary from same town as Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Epstein asked Trump’s ambassador to Ankara to “make me smile” with “photos of you and child”
Revelations in affair have also raised claims that many minors the late child sex offender targeted came from Turkey.
Turkey seizes another crypto exchange over money laundering allegations
Observers struggling to keep up with number of arrests made and companies taken over by officials under wave of prosecutions triggered by government.
Fitch cuts Istanbul-listed white goods maker Arcelik deeper into junk with negative outlook
Intensified Chinese competition taking a toll.
Garanti issues Turkey’s first biodiversity blue bond
Debt security linked to efforts to protect marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean.
Istanbul prosecutor demands up to 2,352 years in prison for Erdogan rival Imamoglu
Opposition leader Ozel says of jailed Istanbul mayor: "His crime is to run for the next presidency of this country. He has no other crime!"
The EU’s new supply web
Global turbulence has stalled FDI for now, but the potential for future investment around the EU’s periphery — from the Western Balkans to Ukraine to north Africa — remains strong.
Turkish military cargo plane flying from Azerbaijan crashes in Georgia
At least 20 personnel were on board aircraft that spiralled from sky and exploded in flames.
PANNIER: Booming breadbasket Kazakhstan now shipping grain to three continents
Drought-stricken countries such as Iran thankful Kazakhs are enjoying bumper crops. Improving cargo routes helping to push up shipments.
Istanbul-listed Investco, Verusa and Pamel seized in market manipulation prosecution
Market chatter and tensions over rash of business investigations and arrests in Turkey grows louder.
Turkey hikes end-2025 official inflation forecast range to 31-33%
Current policy set is to provide finance industry with high real returns without any supportive fiscal and structural measures. Officials will stick with it.
ISTANBUL BLOG: Rulers have changed their game, dull rights defenders offer no riposte
As shown by Merz’s first visit to Turkey as German chancellor, the powers that be don’t pay a blind bit of notice to NGOs like HRW. Though they sometimes respond with a spot of pantomime.
Turkey arrests directors of fuel retailer TP after SOCAR complaint
Police describe around 18,500 tonnes of fuel as "missing".
Will Trump’s Central Asia summit in Washington help break the Chinese chokehold on rare earths?
“Rare earths”. As Donald Trump on November 6 hosts Central Asia’s five presidents in Washington, DC, observers can forgive themselves if they quickly lose count of the number of times these buzzwords are uttered.
Turkmenistan reveals electricity export aspirations
Ashgabat building Caspian power plant.
BEYOND THE BOSPORUS: In Zurich, Turkey’s opposition chief was almost falling over himself to declare that power is nearly upon the CHP
It’s an interesting thought that sounds a bit too good to be true.
New members expected to join EU by 2030 as enlargement momentum builds
Top European Commission officials say admitting new member states to the European Union by 2030 is now a “realistic goal”.
October PMI shows little light at end of tunnel for Turkish manufacturing
Currency weakness and subdued demand plague producers in 19th consecutive month of contraction.