Server-rendered tracker page for regulation regulation in Turkey. This page is built for Google and LLM crawlers: every event below links to a permanent policy-event URL with source data and APAC FINSTAB analysis.
Jurisdiction: Turkey. Regulator: CMB / Central Bank of Turkey. Topic: Regulation. Latest event: May 23, 2026 — Turkey Warns Stablecoins Are Increasingly Used For Terror Financing.
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Turkey's Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek warned at the No Money For Terror meeting that cryptoassets, especially stablecoins, are increasingly being exploited by criminal and terror-financing networks. The statement signals stronger AML/CFT expectations for stablecoin payments, transfers and high-risk jurisdiction controls.
Turkey's Capital Markets Board framework requires crypto asset service providers that have applied for establishment or authorization to satisfy full licensing conditions by June 30, sharpening compliance pressure on exchanges and other local virtual-asset operators.
Turkeys ruling AK Party proposes 10% crypto income tax on $878 billion in cumulative inflows from 2021 to mid-2025. This represents one of the largest retroactive crypto tax proposals globally and could significantly impact Turkish crypto traders.