Turkey introduces New Crypto Rules to Fight Money Laundering
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Yasmin Alta
- . July 1, 2025
- . Update: July 1, 2025 8:39 pm
Turkey has confirmed new crypto regulations that will limit withdrawals as part of a wider crackdown on money laundering and illegal flows. Beginning, with new rules to limit crypto deposits, withdrawals need, to be ‘delayed’ for 48 hours, or 72 hours for users requesting to withdraw from a first time deposit. New rules will include strict verification on identity checks, and will introduce new daily limits on stablecoin transactions by limiting users to $3,000 a day, and $50,000 a month total.
The new rules mean that money can no longer be moved ‘untraceably’, and align more with expectations found in anti-money laundering (AML) best practice regulations. The Turkish authorities are also warning that any platforms that do not comply could see their licenses revoked.
The new rules follow a growing concern in Turkey about the unregulated nature of digital assets, seen by Turkish politicians as a place for lost capital to be put to work. However, as crypto adoption grows in Turkey, the government has a hard balancing act to perform to marry innovative technology, which not only provides people with choices, reduces costs through more competition, and using the underlying advantages of Web 3.0 for controls to allow for delegated centralized currency functionalities. The shift in policy away from a neutral stance is a clear indication that the underpinning regulatory environment in Turkey for crypto will shape your future interactions with this community.
