The Turkish city of Konya, a major cultural and historical center of the country, is developing its own coin and blockchain ecosystem for public services.
Turkey News
Turkey is a southwestern Asian country with a population of 80 million people and an area of 783 thousand kilometers. Turkey is a big and influential developed economy with the 17th largest nominal GDP and has a leading position in exports of such goods as agricultural products, vehicles, construction materials and consumer electronics. The strongest companies in Turkey are mostly from financial, telecommunication and construction industries. The Turkish banking sector is one of the most robust and widespread financial sectors in the Middle East. Bitcoin is not regulated in Turkey. Turkish authorities don’t consider Bitcoin to be a currency or electronic money. However, Bitcoin is pretty popular in Turkey, as both its usage and demand are growing. The Turkish lira-Bitcoin exchange BTCTurk offers the exchange of Bitcoin and foreign currency in the Istanbul airport in Bitcoin ATMs.
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Huobi joins Turkey’s leading blockchain initiative to support local cooperation.
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Emin Gün Sirer's AVA Labs partnered with BlockchainIST Center in Turkey.
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Capital Markets Board of Turkey, the country’s securities regulation agency, has plans to step up guidance and oversight of crypto transactions in 2020.
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Turkish Takasbank has launched its BiGA Digital Gold platform to provide banks with a blockchain-based system for digital gold transfers.
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Mobile payments service MenaPay announced support for Twitch donations with their MenaCash stablecoin.
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Binance, the second largest exchange by daily trading volume, has extended trading pairs for the Turkish lira and the Russian ruble.
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Iran’s President proposes creating a Muslim cryptocurrency as one of measures to confront the economic dominance of the United States.
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Huobi completes its executive team in Turkey by appointing ex-Deloitte exec Alphan Gogus as the new general manager.
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance is looking for managerial staff to establish its offices in Istanbul, Turkey.
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In this Q&A with Cointelegraph, Binance CEO CZ revealed the company’s plans for Turkey, a country he thinks has strong opportunity with crypto.
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Flying under the radar, Turkey is becoming one of the leading adopters of crypto in the world.
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Binance added support for trading Bitcoin, Ether, XRP with Turkish lira via local digital wallet Papara.
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Turkey’s president asks for completed testing of the digital lira by the end of 2020 as local fraudsters rake in 600 BTC among crypto news from Turkey this week...
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According to Turkey’s 2020 Annual Presidential Program, digital lira pilots should be finalized by the end of 2020.
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