Turkey
Iraq flags influencers as high-risk amid money-laundering concerns
Iraq’s central bank has instructed banks and financial institutions to classify social-media influencers and online celebrities as high-risk clients.
Two big-name Turkish textile firms declare bankruptcy amid turmoil
Rising costs, currency volatility and mounting tariff and non-tariff barriers sink enterprises. Some are fleeing to lower-cost Egypt.
Turkey seizes fintech Paybull in illegal betting prosecution
Owners accused of catering to illegal betting schemes for money laundering purposes.
Demographic shifts threaten long-term growth in Emerging Europe, EBRD warns
Economies are "getting old before they get rich” as labour shortages, rising pension costs and declining working-age populations take their toll on region.
Erdogan officials make move against second politician with chance of taking president's crown
Permission to prosecute Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas granted. Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu remains sat in jail.
ISTANBUL BLOG: Erdogan murders Turkish economy, asks ‘Why are there no children?’
President blames everything under the sun for crisis except for his long years of economic destruction.
Spurs make Turkish clinic official hair transplant partner. Will they still play a high line?
Football club releases feel-good film to announce agreement.
Two more opposition mayors join Turkey’s ruling AKP
Serial defector attempts to kiss Erdogan's hand.
Turkey world’s 10th most criminalised country, says ranking
Biennial Global Organized Crime Index assesses 193 countries.
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.