The Turkish Capital Markets Association (TSPB) announced the “Financial Market Summary Data” for 2025, compiled from sources from the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) and the Central Registry Agency (MKK).
Accordingly, the stock assets of domestic investors, which stood at 3 trillion 606 billion lira in 2024, grew by 32.1 percent and rose to 4 trillion 762 billion lira at the end of 2025. In 2025, when the annual inflation rate was 30.9 percent, the growth of domestic investors' stock assets was slightly higher than inflation.
Looking at the MKK data, the stock assets of foreign investors, which amounted to 2 trillion 106 billion lira in 2024, increased by 28.6 percent and reached 2 trillion 710 billion lira in 2025.
According to TSPB data, at the end of 2025, 36.3 percent of the total stock portfolio value in Türkiye, which is 7 trillion 471 billion lira, belonged to foreign investors (including stocks that are not actually in circulation) and 63.7 percent to domestic investors.
The financial assets of domestic investors grew by 48 percent within a year
The total financial assets of domestic investors increased by 48 percent year-on-year in 2025, reaching 44 trillion 215 billion lira.
According to the data, private Eurobond assets of domestic investors increased by 92 percent to over 1 trillion 844 billion lira in a year, and public Eurobond assets increased by 29 percent to over 2 trillion 354 billion lira.
Looking at the CBRT data, the TL deposit assets of domestic investors, which was 11 trillion 651 billion lira in 2024, increased by 34 percent to 15 trillion 637 billion lira in 2025. Foreign currency deposit accounts of domestic investors, which amounted to 5 trillion 748 billion lira in 2024, increased by 2 percent and reached 5 trillion 855 billion lira in 2025.
Domestic investors' private sector debt portfolio increased by 38 percent to over 457 billion lira, and domestic government bond assets increased by 68 percent to over 9 trillion 372 billion lira.
The share of capital market assets of domestic investors, consisting of shares, asset-backed securities, asset-backed securities, private and public Eurobonds, domestic government bonds, warrants and certificates, in total financial assets increased by 1.5 percentage points compared to the end of the previous year and reached 43.2 percent in 2025.
The financial assets of foreigners exceeded 5 trillion lira
The financial assets of foreign investors increased by 30 percent year-on-year last year, from 3 trillion 892 billion lira to 5 trillion 53 billion lira. During the same period, foreign investor assets in foreign currency deposit accounts grew by 42 percent, reaching 963 billion lira, while TL deposits recorded a limited increase of 8 percent, rising to 468.6 billion lira.
Among the financial investments of foreign investors, the largest increase was recorded in precious metal deposits. The portfolio of foreign investors in precious metal deposits grew by 183 percent in 2025 and reached 118 billion lira.
Foreign investor assets in private sector debt rose 109 percent to 26.5 billion lira, and domestic government bond investment rose 24 percent to 766.6 billion lira.
The number of fund investors increased
Although there was a decline in the number of investors with equity holdings last year, the number of investors in investment funds managed by portfolio management companies continued to rise.
While the total number of investors with a balance on the Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange, which was 6 million 840 thousand at the end of 2024, decreased to 6 million 503 thousand at the end of last year, the number of mutual fund investors increased from 5 million 413 thousand to 5 million 669 thousand during the same period.
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