Ankara's chief prosecutor's office issued 29 new detention warrants on Sunday and placed court-appointed trustees over 23 companies, the fourth wave in an investigation into Alihan Kuriş, the jailed leader of the Süleymanlılar religious community, and his circle. Prosecutors allege money laundering, tax offences and an attempt to influence elections through the group's Quran courses, dormitories and businesses; 32 suspects, Kuriş included, were already jailed pending trial in August. The Süleymanlılar have historically kept their distance from Erdoğan's ruling party.
Türkiye's Capital Markets Board extended the wind-down of 131 investment funds from three months to six on Monday and froze the assets of executives at firms including Tera Portföy and Pusula Portföy, after unpaid redemption requests triggered a stock-market selloff and pushed the lira to fresh lows above 48 to the dollar. Regulators allege the funds manipulated share prices; finance minister Mehmet Şimşek says the liquidation will not put further pressure on the exchange. Justice minister Akın Gürlek says 25 suspects face prosecution, with 10 still at large.
Türkiye's Denizkurdu-I naval exercise, roughly 100 ships, 50 aircraft and 14,000 personnel across the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean, runs to 25 September; the day before, on the 24th, it holds a fleet review for foreign observers aboard the carrier TCG Anadolu. Turkish forces kept their Aegean manoeuvres inside Türkiye's own waters, but designated an exercise zone in the eastern Mediterranean that overlaps waters the Republic of Cyprus claims as its own, the same dispute over island and continental-shelf rights that underlies the wider Aegean standoff.
