During recent developments, the Turkey’s regulatory landscape for cryptographic assets underwent a significant transformation after the country’s financial crimes (MASAK) has revealed a new set of directives. Interestingly, popular crypto and national Turkish analyst Burak Kesmeci has weighed on this new regime, sharing the implications of these regulations, from a legal point of view and users.
The new Turkish cryptography rules add obstacles for merchants, stimulate investor protection – Analyst
On June 28, 2025, Masak published the general press release n ° 29 which focuses on the modification of the operations of virtual asset service providers with immediate effect in the context of the implementation of law n ° 5549 on the prevention of money laundering of the crime product. In a post X which follows shortly after this announcement, Kesmeci combines with lawyer Ahmed Karaca to explain the main provisions of the new Crypto directive of Masak.
For the market analyst, one of the most important changes is the addition of a compulsory waiting period for cryptographic transactions. In particular, withdrawals for the first time local exchanges now require a 72 -hour plug, while subsequent transactions face 48 hours. Kesmeci notes that this measure aims to fight against money laundering and fraud by allowing a longer transaction time to detect suspicious activities. However, the analyst describes it as a “negative development” for traders with an impact on short -term negotiation activity on world exchanges.
Another critical provision in the new cryptographic regime of Masak is the introduction of transfer limits when moving the funds of an exchange to a cold portfolio. Kesmeci declares that these limits are set at $ 3,000 at $ 6,000 per day and $ 50,000 at $ 100,000 per month (or cryptographic equivalent). However, these transfer ceilings only apply to stable transactions with investors free to move cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum in the preferred amount. The Turkish analyst explains this because the transfer limit refers to a 2021 regulatory policy which focused only on stablecoins.
Masak presss the transparency of exchanges and the safety of assets
Other changes introduced by Masak are a thrust of transparency which obliges all the exchanges disclosing new lists of tokens to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) of Turkey. Burak Kesmeci expresses his enthusiasm for this particular regulation because he has become the first time that crypto users have acquired an overview of the process that produces a list of assets.
Meanwhile, Masak also implements a strict guard requirement that 95% of user funds must be stored with approved guards, while only 5% are allowed to stay in exchange. Kesmeci explains that this requirement will be carefully monitored because exchanges must not exceed a limit of 90% to 10% because Masak aims to prevent the collapse of exchanges such as FTX and Thodex.
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