Turkey

The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has reportedly appointed crypto and blockchain expert Prof. Dr. Fatma Özkul to the central bank’s monetary body. A decree nominating Özkul was released on December 22, according to Bloomberg. Özkul has been a faculty member at Marmara University Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Accounting and Finance since […]

Turkey is reportedly drafting new regulations to govern crypto assets to convince the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body responsible for combating financial crimes, to remove it from the “grey list” of countries that have not done enough to combat terrorist financing and money laundering. During a discussion with a parliamentary commission on […]