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Halal Business Financing in Turkey (2026): The Whole Market Is a Guarantee
Turkey has no standalone participation leasing or factoring company. What it has is Katilim Finans Kefalet: 48 billion TL of surety for 7,000 collateral-short businesses in three years. How the only game in town works.
KT Portfoy Review (2026): Turkey's Halal Fund Factory at 607 Billion TL
The manager that invented most of Turkey's katilim fund categories now runs over 607 billion TL across roughly 78 funds. What KT Portfoy does brilliantly, and the fee page it still refuses to print.
Albaraka Portfoy Review (2026): The Governance Boutique of Katilim Investing
An AAOIFI trustee chairs its committee, its flagship fund holds 7.27 billion TL, and its icazet dates are printed where you can see them. Albaraka Portfoy reviewed, including the fee it will not print.
Ziraat Portfoy Katilim Review (2026): Cheap Halal Beta From a Conventional Giant
Turkey's largest asset manager is not a participation house, yet it publishes the market's cheapest halal equity exposure and runs both interest-free pension companies' fund menus. The Ziraat paradox, reviewed.
Participation Insurance in Turkey (2026): The Honest State of Play
Four non-life operators, three life companies, and one January 2026 market table that explains everything: who writes the premium, who is growing, and what buyers actually get. Verified August 2026.
Is Insurance Haram in Turkey? The Participation Answer (2026)
The classical objections to insurance are gharar, maysir and riba. Turkey built a licensed industry to answer all three. What the scholars object to, what participation insurance fixes, and where honest disagreement remains.
Turkey's 2020 Participation Insurance Regulation, Explained (2026)
The 19 December 2020 regulation created everything you can buy today: standalone participation insurers, three-scholar committees, interest-free investment mandates. What it requires, what it deliberately leaves open, and why that matters at quote time.
The Scholars Behind Turkish Participation Insurance: Every Committee, Named (2026)
Every participation insurer in Turkey must run a scholar committee. Here is who actually sits on each one, what they approved in 2025, and which companies publish their work versus merely claiming it.
Surplus in Turkish Participation Insurance: Who Owes You Money Back? (2026)
Takaful theory says unused contributions can flow back to participants. In Turkey exactly one insurer has ever done it. The surplus story, the wakala fee opacity behind it, and the questions to put in writing.