With the arrest of a further 20 people in the fund investigation, the number of those sent to prison has risen to 85. Questions regarding the political and bureaucratic aspects of the embezzlement, the profits from closed-end funds and the true scale of the money involved are still awaiting answers.
Developments continue in the case of Kâşif Kozinoğlu. Following his detailed reports on the sect’s activities in Asia and at its schools, Kozinoğlu became a target and was implicated in the Ergenekon case.
Expenditure on the fight against poverty in the January-August period of 2026 matched the total expenditure for the whole of 2025. According to data reflecting the scale of poverty in Turkey, 357.1 billion TL was spent on ‘combating poverty’ in just the first eight months of 2026.
The reactionary transformation shaped by the government’s rhetoric of “protecting the family” has developed into a sweeping wave of operations against LGBTI+ rights defenders and organisations. Lawyers and politicians describe the process, in which allegations of “obscenity” have been turned into a weapon against society as a whole, as “the usurpation of constitutional rights and part of the reactionary siege”.
On the seventh day of their protest, the miners were gathered outside the Ministry. Aksu, an organising specialist at the Independent Miners’ Union (Bağımsız Maden-İş), said, “On Monday, we will demonstrate our uncompromising stance.”
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