Türkiye on Tuesday, 6 October 2026

The Turkish Interior Ministry has suspended five mayors and acting mayors under investigation and in detention as a temporary measure.…

In the Mersin Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's corruption investigation into three municipalities, 10 people were arrested, including Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Vahap Seçer. Legal proceedings for the other individuals are continuing.…

Detained presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu described the arrest of Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Vahap Seçer as "the desperation of a mindset usurping the national will" and called Erdoğan's politics an "addiction to operations".…

YENİ Party leader Özgür Özel blamed the fund embezzlement on people appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) group meeting.…

AK Party Group Deputy Chair Özlem Zengin said the Turkish Justice Ministry issued a new circular after the operation footage in Mersin. Zengin also announced that the Turkish Interior Ministry opened an investigation into the law enforcement officers who filmed the footage.…

Türkiye's Istanbul Governor's Office announced that deputy mayor elections to replace Eyüpsultan Mayor Mithat Bülent Özmen and Ataşehir Deputy Mayor Murat Güneş, who were arrested and suspended from duty, will be held on Oct. 10.…

AK Party Şanlıurfa MP Bekir Bozdağ resigned as deputy speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) citing health problems.…

46 people, including former Bayraklı Mayor Serdar Sandal, were detained in the Izmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's investigation into Bayraklı Municipality. The charges include bribery and rigging tenders.…

Muratpaşa Mayor Ümit Uysal of the CHP announced he would run for party leader if former leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu does not stand as a candidate.…

MHP Deputy Chair Feti Yıldız said "a retrial is required" for Gezi case convict Tayfun Kahraman after the Turkish Constitutional Court's second violation ruling concerning him.…

The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled that Tayfun Kahraman, jailed in the Gezi case, had his right to a fair trial violated and ordered 100,000 lira in non-pecuniary damages. The file will be sent back to Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court for retrial.…

Istanbul 36th Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced LeMan magazine cartoonist Doğan Pehlevan to 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The announcement of the verdict was deferred.…

Former Machinery and Chemical Industry board chairman İsmet Sayhan was released in the military espionage case targeting ASSAN Group. The hearing was adjourned to a later date.…

Istanbul police detained 14 people found to have spread al-Qaeda and ISIS propaganda on social media. A large amount of digital material was seized in the operation.…

The Turkish Defence Ministry (MSB) announced that the 403rd Test Squadron Command, established in 2025 under HUGEM, successfully made its first flight with an F-16.…

Justice Minister Akın Gürlek's lawyer announced that a criminal complaint had been filed against Workers' Party of Turkey Istanbul MP Ahmet Şık and a compensation lawsuit opened. The reason given was Şık's social media posts.…

Day 93 of the 436-defendant IBB case, including Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, with 53 in pretrial detention, began with defenses by defendants not in custody.…

The Turkish Constitutional Court found by majority that the Van Governor's Office's 15-day blanket ban on events across the province in 2019 violated rights, and ordered 50,000 lira (TL) in non-pecuniary damages to applicant lawyer Mahmut Kaçan. The reasoning was published in the Official Gazette today.…

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cemil Tugay answered a question about his political future: "Not for my personal political future, but because of the responsibility I bear toward Izmir; yes, I am on the verge of a decision."…

AK Party lawmakers have prepared a 10-article fund liquidation bill expected to be submitted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) speakership in the coming days. The bill foresees payment this month to 350,000 investors.…

Türkiye's central bank (TCMB) Chair Fatih Karahan told Turkish parliament's Planning and Budget Commission that most outflows from funds had moved into deposits and that rent increases had slowed.…

The Capital Markets Board (SPK) rejected claims that it ignored Borsa Istanbul's (BIST) warnings about funds. The board said it imposed a total of about 3.7 billion lira in administrative fines in 2025 and the first nine months of 2026 and filed criminal complaints against 326 people.…

The number of detainees rose to 85 and the number of suspects subject to judicial proceedings rose to 217 in the fund investigation conducted by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.…

Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz will brief the General Assembly of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) tomorrow on the fund investigation. The briefing will be open to the press.…

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office found that suspects in the fund probe transferred their shares to foreign banks and brokerages. The prosecution sent official requests concerning the share movements of Serdar Turhan, Muhammed Yarız and Şaban Serkan İlaldı.…

CHP Deputy Group Chair Sevda Erdan Kılıç told the plenary that a parliamentary inquiry committee should be set up on the fund crisis. The opposition was reported to be preparing motions in the Turkish Grand National Assembly's (TBMM) new legislative year, while the ruling bloc looked unfavourably on a committee.…

According to a Gedik Yatırım report, the size of investment funds in liquidation fell 34.3% in 15 days. As of Sept. 30, the value of funds under liquidation was calculated at 652.3 billion lira.…

A Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) committee adopted a bill requiring foreign lodging platforms such as Booking, Expedia and Airbnb to hold a two-year permit costing 5 million lira.…

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) released September inflation data. Annual inflation fell to 29.73%, dropping below 30% for the first time since November 2021, while the monthly rise was 1.84%.…

Türkiye's central bank (TCMB) reported that the underlying trend of inflation declined in September from the previous month. Annual consumer inflation fell to 29.73%.…

Diesel prices per litre fell by 4.95 lira from midnight. There was no price change in the petrol group.…

The Turkish Treasury and Finance Ministry issued a dollar-denominated government bond valued Oct. 7, 2026. It drew $1.575 billion in bids, and all bids were met.…

The Turkish Trade Ministry announced that 360,000 firms were inspected in the first 9 months of 2026 and about 2.6 billion lira in administrative fines were imposed. With the Turkish Competition Authority's fines, the total exceeded 23 billion lira.…