Fallout from the billion-euro fund case moved from promises to personnel changes. Capital Markets Board chair Mahmut Sütçü stepped down and Deputy Finance Minister Osman Çelik filed for retirement, whose son-in-law had been detained, while TMSF was appointed trustee for Tera Yatırım and officials promised interim payouts to more than 400,000 investors.
Prosecutors then pressed the linked money-laundering investigation into the Sarıgül circle, seeking arrest for 15 suspects including journalist Murat Ağırel and Aylin Kotil. Courts jailed seven, among them Ağırel, after Emir Sarıgül was taken into custody a day earlier.
Azerbaijan issued in-absentia detention and search orders for seven Turkish nationals. President Erdoğan, addressing muhtars, said good news was coming from Syria and accused Israel of stirring turmoil.