Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Iranians Told to Close Accounts in Some Turkish Banks


Turkish media reported that some of the country’s major banks have asked Iranian citizens to close their accounts by the end of business day on Wednesday 17 April (today). The bank said they were acting on instructions issued by the country’s Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK). (Yeni Safak/Today’s Zaman, 17 April)

An official from one of the bank's branches in Istanbul’s Galatasaray neighborhood told Yeni Safak the bank, one of the financial institutions which called on Iranian account holders to close their accounts, acted in line with BDDK’s instruction that banks “not to provide services for citizens of those countries against which sanctions are in effect.”

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Iran under the Islamist has become a Pariah state.

Anonymous said...

same happens in Austria.
After Protest, The Austrian Bank open agian the account and aplogized.

Anonymous said...

please provide some detail.

Anonymous said...

Canada under the Zionist puppet Harper government did the same, specially the Zionist owned TD Bank, however, Canadian-Iranians just moved to other banks. This is just their pathetic attempts to hurt Iranians.

Anonymous said...

Hurt Iranians? Or do you mean mullahs and their minions who are oppressing Iranians?