The Turkish government has added cryptocurrency exchanges to the list of firms subject to the country’s anti-money laundering and terrorism financing (AML-TF) regulations.
The regulatory change took immediate effect after the presidential decree—similar to an executive order in the US—was published in the Official Gazette today.
By applying those rules to crypto, the government now subjects the 31 crypto exchanges that operate in the country to the stringent regulation set by the financial watchdog, MASAK.
Vetting customers “like banks”
MASAK has occasionally requested a list of customers from the country’s cryptocurrency exchanges, but otherwise left crypto exchanges alone.
Now MASAK will treat crypto exchanges “just like banks,” Mehmet Türkarslan, legal counsel at a major Turkish crypto exchange, told Decrypt.
Starting today, exchanges have to demand proof of residency and identity documents (far from the norm in Turkey), and periodically check the validity of those
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