Published December 05,2025

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Türkiye’s flag carrier Turkish Airlines on Friday announced that it signed a codeshare agreement with South African Airways, the flag carrier of South Africa, covering joint flights that will begin on March 1, 2026.

The agreement was signed at a ceremony held in Geneva by Ahmet Bolat, chairman of of Turkish Airlines, and John Lamola, CEO of South African Airways, according to a statement from Turkish Airlines.

Bolat said that as the flag carriers of the two countries, they are offering their passengers the opportunity to benefit from more comprehensive travel options, adding that he believes the cooperation will not remain limited to the commercial realm but will also bring significant gains to the deep-rooted cultural and tourism relations between the countries.

Lamola, for his part, described the agreement as a strategic step toward expanding reliable and competitive air travel for their passengers.

He said Turkish Airlines is a well-regarded global carrier, and this partnership highlights the two sides’ shared commitment to improving connectivity between Africa and Türkiye while supporting tourism, trade and sustainable economic growth.

With the codeshare agreement set to begin on March 1, 2026, the aim is to deepen commercial cooperation between the two carriers and offer more travel alternatives to the passengers of both airlines.

Under the agreement, South African Airways will codeshare on Johannesburg-Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Windhoek, Harare, Victoria Falls and Mauritius routes, while Turkish Airlines will codeshare on Istanbul-Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Frankfurt, Paris and London routes.

Published December 05,2025

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Türkiye’s benchmark stock index ended Friday at 11,007.37 points, up 0.81%.

After starting the day at 10,923.58 points, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index gained 88.86 points from Thursday’s close.

The lowest value of the index was 10,909.34, while the daily high was 11,015.54.

The market value of the BIST 100 was around 10.4 trillion Turkish liras ($245.2 billion), with a trading volume of 141 billion liras ($3.32 billion).

A total of 74 stocks on the index rose and 24 dropped, compared to the previous close.

Gold was $4,242.30 per ounce, while Brent crude oil sold for $63.7 per barrel as of 7.50 pm local time (1550GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 42.5115, the euro/Turkish lira exchange rate was 49.5590, and the British pound traded for 56.7835 liras.

Published December 05,2025

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The International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) kicked off its energy and sustainability conference IAEE MECA (Middle East and Central Asia) 2025 in the southwestern Turkish city of Antalya on Dec. 4-6.

The event brings together global experts on energy, economics, and sustainability. Anadolu serves as its global communications partner.

The summit will address the challenges and opportunities in energy transition, especially in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Special sessions on small modular reactors, e-mobility, critical minerals, and energy transition pathways specific to Central Asia will be discussed.

Gurkan Selcuk Kumbaroglu, chair of the IAEE MECA 2025 organizing committee, told Anadolu that participants from 24 countries are participating in the energy summit. The participants are mainly from the Middle East and Central Asia, but also from Brazil, China, and Europe.

“People from all over the world are participating in our event, which shows the importance given to Türkiye in the field of energy,” he said.

Kumbaroglu stated that one of the preliminary workshops at the summit is on financing energy transition.

He noted that the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) was held in Brazil this year, and Türkiye will be holding the next iteration, the COP31, in Antalya. He said the IAEE will participate in COP meetings and that the energy summit is a preparatory event.

“The energy transition field has an annual financing need of around $1.3 trillion — about $300 billion of this is committed by developed countries, but there’s still a very serious financing need,” he said. “We started the summit with a workshop on this issue, and at the same time, we held another workshop on sustainability and life cycle.”

He stated that the summit is bringing together several university departments as well as the public and business sectors.

“Many investors from all around the world and the private sector are here, alongside many senior executives and officials from various firms — they show their desire to invest in Türkiye,” he added.

Published December 04,2025

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Türkiye’s real estate business broke a record this year, selling around 2.87 million properties in the January-November period, according to data from the country’s Land Registry and Cadaster General Directorate (TKGM).

The number of real estate properties sold nationwide rose 7.6% on an annual basis, the data showed. These properties include homes, land, fields, workplaces, and commercial properties.

The previous first-11-month record was 2.82 million real estate properties sold in January-November 2022.

Real estate sales in Türkiye increased in January, February, April, May, June, July, August, and September year-on-year, while falling in March, October, and November, according to the data.

The Turkish real estate sector sold some 238,938 properties in January, 232,756 in February, 222,934 in March, 237,829 in April, 263,643 in May, 218,282 in June, 284,852 in July, 290,564 in August, 300,687 in September, and 310,457 in October.

In November, the number of properties sold was 273,295, up 8.6% on an annual basis.

Meanwhile, a total of 18.4 million transactions were made at land registry offices in Türkiye in January-November, the data showed.

Around 2.9 million of these transactions were sales, over 1.2 million were mortgages, 446,000 transfers, 157,000 corrections, 62,300 expropriations, 48,300 divisions, 34,000 donations, nearly 27,900 mergers, and around 26,100 partitions.

Some 13.4 million other transactions were also made in these offices.

Revenue from fees collected from these transactions surged 73.7% to 139.1 billion Turkish lira ($3.2 billion), $3.1 billion of which was generated from sales transactions.