Justice Minister Akın Gürlek said on Tuesday the stock market manipulation scandal is not a simple scam but a criminal organization reaching into the financial bureaucracy. Investigators have detained 433 suspects, jailed 112 pending trial, and seized about $600 million in assets in a scheme that hit nearly half a million investors.
Özgür Özel, who leads Türkiye's main opposition party CHP, denied on Tuesday a claim that a businessman's son gave him $350,000 in cash, including $100,000 hidden in a scarf delivered to his home. Özel mocked the timing of the alleged delivery and demanded evidence beyond one man's testimony.
The Export-Import Bank of Korea and Turkey Nuclear Energy Inc. signed a memorandum on Tuesday to examine financing options for Türkiye's planned Sinop nuclear plant on the Black Sea. Seoul is seeking a role in building the plant, building on a cooperation deal the two countries signed last November.
Türkiye's exports rose 8.1 percent year-on-year to $25.9 billion in October, the highest October figure on record, Trade Minister Ömer Bolat said. Imports grew more slowly, narrowing the trade deficit to $6.7 billion.
Óscar Puente stepped down on Tuesday after revealing that a safety system on the Madrid-Seville line had failed before an AVE train collided with a stopped Iryo train near Toledo. He called the resignation "an act of political responsibility" and said he would not seek re-election; it was Spain's second fatal crash on the line in nine months.
Lawmakers elected retired career prosecutor Péter Fejes as prosecutor general by secret ballot, 139 votes to 6, giving him a nine-year term. The appointment follows Viktor Orbán's election defeat in April, at a time when three former ministers, including ex-central bank governor György Matolcsy, remain in custody on corruption charges.
Moldova's prime minister said government databases holding data on hundreds of thousands of people were breached and cancelled a Brussels trip, blaming a suspected state actor he declined to name. The attack came as a separate hacking campaign that overheated supermarket refrigeration systems in France last month spread to Italy and Sweden, prompting emergency talks in Rome.
Donald Trump told Fox News that Washington would stop sending Israel its annual military assistance by the end of the year, a figure he put at $4 billion. The current US-Israel agreement, signed in 2016, provides about $3.8 billion a year through 2028, and it was unclear what Trump meant by ending it early.
Democrat Roy Cooper, a former two-term governor, defeated Republican Michael Whatley to win North Carolina's Senate seat, the first Democratic Senate win in the state since 2008. The result is an early pickup for Democrats as they try to retake the chamber from its 53-47 Republican majority.
"the sun and the mountain" is Ugo Rondinone's first solo show in Istanbul, pairing his sculpted stone towers with watercolours at Dirimart's Dolapdere space. The show closes November 8, so this is the final week to catch it.
Ferit Odman, one of Türkiye's leading jazz drummers, plays Touché with his quintet on Wednesday, drawing on his Downbeat-reviewed albums "Autumn in New York" and "Nommo". Doors open at 19:30, with the set starting at 21:00.
Modundayız's MIX Festival fills Zorlu PSM on Friday with a lineup spanning multiple genres on one ticket, a change of pace from the venue's usual single-act shows. It starts at 17:00.
Singer Ferhat Göçer performs "Opia: İlk Görüşte Aşk" (Love at First Sight), a staged concert inspired by his album of the same name, blending songs with acted scenes. It is in Turkish only, so it's one for those further along with the language.
Sweden's parliament voted down Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist as prime minister on Tuesday, 25 votes for her against the rest of the chamber, after her would-be coalition partners refused to back her. Speaker Andreas Norlén gave outgoing PM Ulf Kristersson a one-week mandate to try forming a government, his third attempt; a fourth failed vote would trigger a snap election.