The fund scandal moved from resignations to enforcement. The regulator halted three brokerages overnight, and prosecutors issued 31 detention orders over share transactions in four companies, with 26 taken into custody. Sabah identified Atlas Portfolio and the Altınbaş family as targets. President Erdoğan fielded questions on the crisis and attacked the opposition, while JP Morgan applied to cancel its Turkish activity licence.
Foreign policy picked up where ratification left off. Foreign Minister Fidan held talks with rival Libyan leaders and called the maritime memorandum fully legitimate despite objections from the EU and Greece. Erdoğan confirmed a forthcoming Syria visit, met Azerbaijan’s Aliyev and Bulgaria’s Radev, and Turkey signed the Badr defense cooperation accord with Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia.
BirGün reporter İsmail Arı was jailed on a charge of disseminating misleading information after a complaint by former RTÜK head Ebubekir Şahin.