Import and Export of Capital in Turkey

The Capital Movements Circular ("Circular") has been amended with the letter of Ministry of Treasury and Finance of Republic of Turkey numbered 940051.

Mersis is an electronic trade registry, which is highly popular and a significant e-portal for attorneys and companies.

Turkey has moved from a largely unregulated crypto market to one of the more tightly supervised regimes in the region. For foreign investors, exchanges, and businesses holding digital assets with a Turkish nexus, understanding the current framework is no longer optional.

The information relating to Turkiye is provided for background purposes only. The information presented herein has been extracted from and is presented on the authority of various public official documents and private publications.

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With its decision No. 57/1708 dated 17.09.2026, the Capital Markets Board (the “CMB”) set out the liquidation procedures for the 131 investment funds established by Tera, A1 Capital, Atlas, Bulls, Hedef, Pardus and Pusula Portföy Yönetimi, whose liquidation had been ordered under its previous decision, and updated the relevant list of funds in the same decision.

This article examines the legal and practical framework for opening and operating a Turkish bank account as a foreign national or foreign-owned business. It distinguishes statutory customer-identification and anti-money-laundering duties from each bank's own customer-acceptance policy. The discussion addresses passports,

The Capital Markets Board of Türkiye has introduced comprehensive regulatory reforms affecting hedge funds and portfolio management companies, implementing new investment diversification requirements, graduated ownership caps based on free-float ratios, enhanced capital adequacy standards, and stricter personnel qualifications. These changes, effective from August 2026, establish tiered compliance deadlines and fundamentally reshape the operational framework for Turkish portfolio managers.

On 16 September 2026, the money market funds founded by Pusula Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. defaulted after failing to meet the cash redemption requests received from investors, triggering a sharp sell off on Borsa Istanbul. The BIST 100 index lost 5.54% that same day and hit a circuit breaker; the selling soon spread to Tera Portföy funds as well. It became apparent that the problem was not confined to those two firms but also extended to Hedef, Atlas, A1 Capital, Pardus and Bulls Portföy.

Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index came under significant selling pressure over three consecutive trading sessions between 15-17 September 2026. The index closed down 5.54% on 16 September, a move that triggered Borsa Istanbul’s index-linked circuit breaker, and negative momentum continued into the morning of 17 September. The sell-off was primarily triggered by a default at Pusula Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş., a portfolio management company, which failed to meet investor redemption requests from certain funds it manages in a timely manner. A similar liquidity problem emerged at Tera Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş., and this situation put pronounced pressure on the shares of both companies as well as on broader market indices.

On April 2 2026, the Turkish Grand National Assembly’s (“TBMM”) Health, Family, Employment, and Social Affairs Commission approved a transformative set of amendments to Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combatting Crimes Committed by Means of Such Publications (“Law No. 5651”), which were published in the Official Gazette of May 1, 2026.

The investigation originated from a series of consumer complaints submitted from late 2023 onwards, which pointed to identical or closely aligned prices for products such as eggs, yoghurt, rice, butter and wafers across several national grocery retailers. The complaints also alleged that price increases were frequently implemented on the same or nearby dates.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control published Sanctions Compliance Guidance for the Virtual Currency Industry on its official website on October 15, 2021 ...

As an emerging market, Turkey is rightly considered to be a business and commercial hub for the EMEA region, as well as an important market for many multinational companies. In 2017, Turkey received a score of 40 points in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, on a scale of 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean").

For many years, in order to cover any rights pertaining to trademarks, patents, designs, utility models and geographical indications, one had to look at an assortment of decree laws instead of consulting a single, united code.

Presidential Circular on Information and Communication Security Measures ("Circular") is published in the Official Gazette of July 6, 2019.

On 24 November 2025, the Turkish Data Protection Authority (Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu – "DPA") published the Generative Artificial Intelligence and Personal Data Protection Guidelines (the "Guidelines").

The Amendments to the Regulation on Commercial Communications and Commercial Electronic Messages ("Amendment Regulation")...

The Turkish Competition Board’s (“Board”) recent decision involving the negative clearance and exemption application of AXA Sigorta AŞ (“AXA”) concerning the Non-Life Insurance Agency Agreement (“Agreement”) concluded with Denizbank AŞ (“Denizbank”) and Deniz Finansal Kiralama AŞ (“DFK”) serves as an important decision in Turkiye’s non-life insurance and bancassurance markets (“Decision”).

Overall, this was a less active year in terms of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") enforcement actions, at least when compared to 2016. In 2017, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") took a total of 9 enforcement actions and the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") took a total of 7 enforcement actions.