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📰 Turkey's news agenda in English
🔍 Analysis beyond the polarized headlines
🌍 Politics, foreign policy, defense, economy, culture, media
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By @duyguguvenc @tugrul_c @barcinyinanc @shehbender @nergisdemirkaya @hakanokcal @ckfirat @NazlanEr Murat Gürgen @Paul_Osterlund

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Finance experts. Journalists. Academics. Lawyers. Newsrooms.
Turkey’s latest access bans have spread well beyond one political constituency — with accounts discussing the stock-market crisis among those targeted.
Who has disappeared from X in Turkey?
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Feridun Sinirlioğlu is not an announced candidate, and the race is already well underway. Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan topped the Security Council's fourth straw poll with 10 "encourage" votes to be UN Secretary General. Michelle Bachelet withdrew on Sept. 19. António Guterres leaves office on Dec. 31, and there is no formal deadline for entering the race. Where the race stands → https://t.co/26L5Sci2Y2

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🔎 Don’t look only at the detentions.
Turkey’s municipal story also involves council defections, changing majorities and meetings between opposition or independent mayors and Erdoğan.
Mersin, Ataşehir, Ankara and İzmir provide four snapshots.
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Up to ₺1 million may be returned to investors.
But when?
Turkey’s government has announced a compensation mechanism for victims of the fund crisis without giving a clear payout date.
Meanwhile, the political questions surrounding the scandal keep multiplying.
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Two prisons. Two very different political stories.
Can Atalay launched a hunger strike over his parliamentary status.
Meanwhile, at parliament’s reception, Devlet Bahçeli sent his regards to Abdullah Öcalan through DEM’s İmralı delegation.
Turkey in Depth:
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“There is no crisis, but the mechanisms need to function.”
That is how a senior DEM Party official describes the delay in Turkey’s peace process.
The expected October breakthrough did not arrive. Early December is now in focus.
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🇹🇷 In March, Trade Minister Ömer Bolat called Turkey "an inseparable and reliable part of European value chains." By June, he was criticizing the same EU law as protectionist. @shehbender argues he wasn't contradicting himself: Turkey wants to be part of Europe's market and still keep its options open. Inside the walls, gates open → https://t.co/26L5SciANA

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🇹🇷 The Turkish Air Force’s new trainer has arrived.
After 23,000 hours of testing, Hürkuş-II has entered service. 15 aircraft are scheduled for delivery this year, with 55 ordered in total.
What it means for Turkey’s aviation ambitions:
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“I heard.”
“Who did you hear it from?”
“I don’t remember.”
An exchange in the Istanbul Municipality trial captures one of the defense’s central challenges to testimony in the case.
Inside day 91 of the proceedings:
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One controversy disappears. Another arrives.
Portrait of the Week revisits previous financial controversies involving AKP politicians while examining the latest name at the center of debate: Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya.
Is Turkey suffering from political “goldfish memory”?
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President Erdoğan first described Turkey’s fund crisis as limited.
Then came:
➡️ A Fund Coordination Board
➡️ A presidential audit
➡️ Asset seizures
➡️ Compensation plans
➡️ A senior AKP resignation
The government’s response is accelerating as the scandal widens.
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Russia needs Turkey. China may see commercial opportunities.
But neither necessarily offers Ankara an easy substitute for Europe.
@barcinyinanc explains why a crisis with the EU could leave Turkey with less leverage toward Moscow and Beijing, not more.
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Can Atalay’s political journey:
⚖️ Lawyer for Taksim Solidarity
➡️ Imprisoned over the Gezi case
🗳️ Elected MP from Hatay
🏛️ Stripped of his parliamentary seat
⚖️ Constitutional Court ruling remains unimplemented
➡️ Now a 24-hour hunger strike
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🏛️ Mersin: three mayors detained
🤝 İzmir: Cemil Tugay meets Erdoğan
🔄 Ataşehir: six CHP council members switch to AKP
Three cities. Three different developments. One rapidly changing landscape in Turkey’s local politics.
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🇨🇳 A $350 billion trade shift could create a new headache for Turkish exporters.
As Chinese production once destined for the US searches for other buyers, Turkish businesses fear aggressive Chinese pricing in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
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🇹🇷 Investors who sold their fund shares at a profit before the liquidation order are being asked to give some of the money back voluntarily. The Capital Markets Board has opened refund accounts at Ziraat Bank and İşbank for each fund, with the money going to pay other investors. An unusual ask, explained → https://t.co/26L5SciANA

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✈️ Two decades in the making.
The Turkish Air Force has received its first Hürkuş-II basic trainer aircraft. 80% is domestically produced, and 55 are set to enter the inventory by the end of 2028.
Turkey in Depth:
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From parliament’s chamber to its corridors, Oct. 1 was filled with political messages.
Yeni Party walked out on Erdoğan.
DEM displayed Can Atalay’s poster.
Atalay launched a hunger strike from prison.
And the evening reception produced another striking moment.
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The most important sentence may be this:
“There is no crisis, but the mechanisms need to function.”
Turkey in Depth goes inside the delay surrounding the Framework Law — and why many Kurdsare now looking toward December.
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Nearly $20 billion in funds. More than 455,000 retail investors.
Turkey’s SPK has ordered 131 investment funds liquidated amid widening manipulation investigations.
There’s now a roadmap for investor payouts — but still no clear payment date.
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