Türkiye received compliant or largely compliant ratings on 38 of the Financial Action Task Force’s 40 recommendations in its fifth-round mutual evaluation, while the remaining two were rated partially compliant. However, the country was placed in enhanced follow-up because more than 7,000 financial crime cases were pending prosecution, requiring Ankara to address the backlog within three years. The designation is a reporting requirement rather than a blacklist, and Türkiye was placed in the same category after its 2019 evaluation. FATF found stronger use of financial intelligence and international cooperation, but said investigations were not consistently producing court verdicts. It also criticized the inability to impose criminal liability on legal entities in many cases, alongside weaknesses in terrorist-financing risk management and suspicious-transaction reporting outside the banking sector. Virtual asset service providers were covered by a regulatory framework still being rolled out during the November 2025 on-site visit, although supervisors had increased risk-based checks on financial institutions and crypto platforms. Türkiye’s Treasury and Finance Ministry ruled out a return to the FATF gray list, saying the assessment found no critical deficiencies in efforts against money laundering, terrorist financing or proliferation financing.