Turkey observed the 88th anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s death, with the state ceremony at Anıtkabir, Erdoğan’s memorial address and the nationwide 09:05 silence that halted traffic and metro services in Ankara and Istanbul dominating morning front pages.
Attention then returned to the Aliağa HABAŞ explosion carried over from 9 November, as the toll rose from 17 to 18 with identification of the last missing worker. Coverage shifted from casualties to accountability, reporting a crane collapse into the arc furnace, prior convictions of managers, and detention orders for 11 executives followed by the capture of board chairman Mehmet Rüştü Başaran.
A parallel detention of MP Ahmet Şık’s wife Yonca Verdioğlu Şık on espionage suspicion ended with release, while Erdoğan held COP31 meetings in Antalya with Guterres and others and prosecutors sought arrests of three figures in the capital-markets fund probe.