[85629] Repeated posts on Turkish financial Telegram channels raise concerns about aggressive advertising activity

Reports of intense advertising activity on Turkish Telegram channels

During the day (June 16, 2026), repeated advertising activity was identified on the Telegram channels Borsa Haber 🔔 and Borsa Haber Hisse🥇, which deal with the Turkish capital market. The channels posted repeated messages directing users to join external channels and groups.

According to Borsa Haber 🔔, the call to users is urgent, using marketing language: "GİREN GİRSİN SİLİYORUM SON 120 KİŞİ" (translated to English: "Whoever is getting in, get in, I am deleting, only 120 spots left"). These messages serve as a common tactic in digital marketing to create a sense of urgency and scarcity.

The channels in question, which have collectively garnered approximately 1,533 views on these posts, generally focus on capital market analysis, but in this case, they were used as a platform for distributing external links defined as #reklam (advertisement). It should be noted that channels of this type in the financial sector in Turkey often tend to integrate editorial content alongside sponsored content to promote closed groups, which may indicate a business model based on generating traffic to closed communities.