MASAK Communiqué on Measures for Persons and Entities Subject to UN Listing Decisions Published

Scope of the change

The Financial Crimes Investigation Board (Mali Suçları Araştırma Kurulu) General Communiqué (Serial No: 34), published in the Official Gazette (Resmî Gazete) dated September 23, 2026 and numbered 33379, addresses the listing decisions of the United Nations Security Council that fall within the scope of Law No. 6415 on the Prevention of the Financing of Terrorism, dated February 7, 2013, and Law No. 7262 on the Prevention of the Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, dated December 27, 2020. The purpose of the Communiqué is to determine the measures that must be taken promptly, within the framework of Law No. 5549 on the Prevention of Laundering Proceeds of Crime, with respect to persons, entities or organizations subject to these decisions.

The Communiqué is based on Article 27 of the Regulation on Measures Regarding Prevention of Laundering Proceeds of Crime and Financing of Terrorism and on the Regulation on Postponement of Transactions within the Scope of Prevention of Laundering Proceeds of Crime and Financing of Terrorism.

Announcement of decisions and measures of obliged entities

Under Article 4 of the Communiqué, information transmitted through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning listing decisions and the persons, entities or organizations subject to these decisions is announced by being published on the website of the Presidency of the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK).

Article 5 of the Communiqué provides that obliged entities, pursuant to the relevant legislation, particularly Article 19/A of Law No. 5549, are required to take the necessary measures to promptly notify MASAK of, and to postpone, the transactions that the persons, entities or organizations subject to the decision wish to carry out. In the Communiqué, obliged entities are defined as those listed in Article 4 of the said Regulation on Measures, together with their branches, agencies, representatives and commercial agents and similar affiliated units.

Entry into force

The Communiqué entered into force on the date of its publication, September 23, 2026, and contains no transitional provision. The Minister of Treasury and Finance executes the provisions of the Communiqué.

Points to note in practice

Because listing decisions will be announced on MASAK’s website, obliged entities will need to monitor these announcements and reflect changes in the lists in their customer and transaction controls in a timely manner. It is important to determine internal procedures in advance so that notification and the postponement measure can be carried out promptly when a transaction request from a listed person, entity or organization is encountered.

The Communiqué on Amendments to the Financial Crimes Investigation Board General Communiqué (Serial No: 5) (Serial No: 33), published in the same issue, also changed certain amounts in the Serial No: 5 General Communiqué, which regulates simplified measures under the principle of customer identification. Accordingly, in Article 2.2.7 the phrase “ten thousand” became “twenty thousand” and “twenty-five thousand” became “fifty thousand”; in Article 2.2.9 the phrases “two thousand seven hundred fifty” became “five thousand five hundred”; in subparagraph (a) of Article 2.2.11 the phrases “two thousand seven hundred fifty” became “five thousand five hundred”, while in subparagraph (b) the phrase “one thousand TL” became “two thousand five hundred TL” and the phrase “two thousand seven hundred fifty” became “six thousand five hundred”. This amendment also entered into force on the date of its publication.