In the first half of the year, which the stock market lost under the influence of the political agenda, US and Qatari investors moved away from Türkiye. In the first half of the year, the market value of the stock market ended in June and decreased by $ 72 billion on an annual basis and 23 billion dollars compared to the end of 2024 to 355 billion dollars. The operation against the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality on March 19 was the development of the first half of the year, while the reaction of the US and Qataris, which constitutes 40 percent of the foreign investments in the stock market, was negative. According to the data of the Investor Relations Association, the portfolio size of Qatari investors, which was 14.3 billion dollars at the end of March, decreased to 10.6 billion dollars in June.
USA is in the first place
In the second quarter of the year, the largest group of foreign investors in the stock market became the US with the decrease in the portfolio size of the Qatar people by 25.5 percent. The portfolio size of US -based investors, which was $ 11.3 billion at the end of March, rose to $ 11.5 billion at the end of June. Following US and Qatar investors, the largest group in the stock market became the Spaniards. Spanish -based investors’ portfolios increased by 924 percent annually and exceeded $ 6.7 billion. On a quarterly basis, the Spaniards’ portfolios increased by 400 million dollars. The United Kingdom and the Netherlands -based investors formed the fourth largest and fifth group in the stock market.
The portfolio size of Luxembourg -based investors, described as ‘tax paradise’, 2.2 billion without showing a concrete change in the second half of the year
exceeded the dollar. The portfolio size of the other tax paradise Cayman Islands grew by $ 159 million to $ 1.2 billion.
