Massive crowds gathered on Saturday for demonstrations organized by Turkey’s main opposition party to protest the imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
The Turkish banking index rose after a regulatory boost that removed the short-selling ban on biggest stocks and skipped inflation accounting for financial firms.
Turkey’s Peninsula Investments and Denon Partners have merged to create Peninsula Corporate Finance AS and plan to establish an investment bank within the next two years.
Turkey’s Central Bank, under new Governor Hafize Gaye Erkan, is easing its security maintenance rule as its first step to simplifying policies designed to boost Turkish lira savings.
Turkish engineering company Hidropar Hareket has raised 132 million liras ($7.4
million) in an initial public offering, according to a filing from
Istanbul-based brokerage firm A1 Capital.
Turkey quickly summoned Massimo Gaiani, Italy’s ambassador in Ankara, to its foreign ministry after Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi labeled Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a dictator.
Turkish Airlines will be putting foreign national pilots on unpaid leave to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its finances, according to company emails seen by Bloomberg.