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Last updated: 15 September 2026

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Turkish crypto and betting legislation: four texts, each with its number and date

Four texts, on crypto assets in payments, on sports betting, on gambling and on crypto-asset service providers; for each, its Official Gazette date, its article and whom it is directed at. The texts were opened in their official publications on 15 September 2026.

Turkish crypto and betting legislation is set out on this page of the site and nowhere else. Below are four texts: the number, the Official Gazette in which each was published, the relevant article and whom that article is directed at. We read all of them on 15 September 2026 in the institutions' own publications: the Legislation Information System (mevzuat.gov.tr) and the Official Gazette (resmigazete.gov.tr).

The page draws no conclusion. It reports what each text regulates and whom it addresses; for a personal situation the right address is a lawyer who knows the detail of the file.

The four texts dealt with on the legislation page, side by side: the TCMB’s 2021 regulation addresses payment institutions, article 5 of Law no. 7258 the roles listed in its separate paragraphs, article 228 of the Penal Code the person who provides a place and the means, and Law no. 7518 crypto-asset service providers. The diagram passes no judgment; it separates out whom each text addresses.

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Turkish crypto and betting legislation: a map of the four texts

The four texts look at four separate fields and the parties they address differ too. In brief:

The TCMB regulation (2021): payment service providers together with payment and electronic money institutions.
Law no. 7258, article 5: the roles counted around betting and games of chance based on sporting events, the player included.
Penal Code no. 5237, article 228: the person who provides a place and the means for gambling.
Law no. 7518 (2024): crypto-asset service providers, that is platforms and custody institutions.

A fifth number, 5651, is not a separate heading on this list. Article 5 of Law no. 7258 refers to it; what that reference amounts to stands in a single paragraph below.

Crypto assets in payments: the TCMB regulation

The Regulation on the Non-Use of Crypto Assets in Payments, issued by the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye, appeared in the issue of the Official Gazette of 16 April 2021, no. 31456. Under its article 5 it came into force on 30 April 2021, and under its article 6 its provisions are executed by the Governor of the Central Bank. Its enabling article points at two texts: article 4 of Central Bank Law no. 1211 and articles 12 and 18 of Law no. 6493.

The definition is in the first paragraph of article 3. Under the regulation, a crypto asset is an intangible asset created virtually by means of distributed ledger or similar technology and distributed over digital networks, but not counted as fiat money, book money, electronic money, a payment instrument, a security or any other capital market instrument. The second and third paragraphs of the same article close off the direct or indirect use of such assets in payments and the provision of services directed at such use.

The party addressed is named in article 4. Payment service providers cannot build a business model resting on crypto assets while providing payment services or issuing electronic money. Payment and electronic money institutions, in turn, cannot act as intermediaries in transfers of funds to or from platforms that trade, hold, transfer or issue crypto assets. The regulation is a short text of six articles in all; apart from the articles on purpose, enabling authority, entry into force and execution, all of its content is in those two.

The article does not count a single act: the one who runs the game, the one who makes a game run abroad accessible over the internet, the one who brokers the transfer of money, the one who encourages it by advertising and the one who plays each stand in a separate paragraph. The sanction provided for the one who plays is an administrative fine imposed by the civil administrative authority. The drawing shows the structure of the article; it makes no assessment.

Law no. 7258, article 5: five roles

The Law on the Arrangement of Betting and Games of Chance in Football and Other Sports Competitions was adopted on 29 April 1959 and published in the Official Gazette of 9 May 1959, no. 10201. The present text of article 5 came in with Law no. 6495 of 12 July 2013. The article divides into paragraphs the acts carried out without resting on the authority the law confers:

(a) Those who run fixed-odds or pari-mutuel betting or games of chance based on sporting events, and those who provide a place or the means for them.
(b) Those who make such games, run abroad, accessible to be played from Türkiye over the internet or by any other route.
(c) Those who broker the transfer of money connected with those games.
(ç) Those who encourage people to play by advertising or in any other way.
(d) Those who play those games.

For the first four paragraphs the text provides for imprisonment. Paragraph (d) keeps players apart: the sanction written for them is not imprisonment but an administrative monetary sanction to be imposed by the most senior civil administrative authority of the locality, and the paragraph puts its amount at between five thousand and twenty thousand lira.

The later paragraphs of the article move on to other instruments. The confiscation provisions of Law no. 5237 apply to the goods set aside for the game and to the assets obtained from it; security measures specific to legal persons are provided for; and the premises where the act was committed are sealed for three months by the civil administrative authority. Two paragraphs added by Law no. 7405 of 22 April 2022 also allow the Spor Toto Organisation Presidency to apply directly to the chief public prosecutor's office and to be admitted as an intervening party in a case brought.

The reference to 5651

Article 5 of Law no. 7258 refers, for the acts within its scope, to text no. 5651 of 4 May 2007: the provisions there governing the blocking of access apply to those acts too. 5651 is the text regulating publications in the internet environment; it was published in the Official Gazette on 23 May 2007.

The first paragraph of article 8 of that text contains a list. On that list are both article 228 of Penal Code no. 5237 and, through a paragraph added by Law no. 7226 of 25 March 2020, the acts in Law no. 7258. The decision is given by a judge at the investigation stage and by the court at the prosecution stage; in cases where delay would be prejudicial, the public prosecutor gives the decision and submits it for a judge's approval. Law no. 7590 of 24 July 2026 changed the references to “the Authority” in that article to “the Ministry”. What is described here is only the reference itself: which text brings which mechanism into play.

Penal Code no. 5237, article 228

Penal Code no. 5237 was adopted on 26 September 2004 and published in the Official Gazette of 12 October 2004, no. 25611. Article 228 is headed “Providing a place and the means for gambling”. Its first paragraph describes the party addressed in the same words: the person who prepares the place or the means for gambling.

The article's six paragraphs run as follows. The second provides for an increase where children are involved. The third separately governs the case where the act is committed using information systems; it was added by decree-law no. 694 of 15 August 2017 and adopted unchanged by Law no. 7078 of 1 February 2018. The fourth is given to the case of the act being committed within the activity of an organisation, and the fifth to measures concerning legal persons.

The sixth paragraph gives the definition: for the purposes of this text, gambling is a game played for gain in which both the profit and the loss depend on chance. Where 7258 looks at betting and games of chance based on sporting events, article 228 looks at games falling within that definition; the subject matter and the party addressed are not the same in the two texts.

The two texts intersect at one point. A paragraph added to article 5 of Law no. 7258 in 2017 names, alongside its own paragraphs (a) to (ç), the third and fourth paragraphs of article 228 as well, and writes that certain investigative measures in Criminal Procedure Code no. 5271 may be applied to them.

Law no. 7518: crypto-asset service providers

Law no. 7518 was adopted on 26 June 2024 and published in the Official Gazette of 2 July 2024, no. 32590. Article 1 of the law added six paragraphs, (aa) to (ff), to the definitions article — article 3 — of the Capital Markets Law (6362). The paragraphs define, in order, the wallet, the crypto asset, the service provider, the custody service, the platform and the abbreviation TÜBİTAK.

The definition of a crypto asset in that text is built differently from the TCMB's. Here a crypto asset is an intangible asset that can be created and held electronically by means of distributed ledger or similar technology, that is distributed over digital networks and that can express a value or a right. The definition of a service provider, in turn, covers platforms, institutions providing custody services and such other institutions as the board may determine.

The first paragraph of article 35/B, added by the law, makes the establishment of a crypto-asset service provider and the commencement of its activity subject to permission from the board. The parties the text addresses are those institutions; the articles we read contain no provision on casino or betting games.

How to read Turkish crypto and betting legislation

The texts in the Legislation Information System are in “consolidated” form: later amendments are set into the text, each with its date and number written in brackets beside it. The note “(Amended: 12/7/2013–6495/art. 3)” at the head of article 5 of Law no. 7258 is an example; it shows since when today's sentences have read as they do.

The copy in the Official Gazette, on the other hand, is the first text as it stood on the day of publication. That is why we read the TCMB regulation and Law no. 7518 directly from the Gazette's own issues; the text of each on that day is the same as the one reported here.

When reporting a paragraph, three things are worth checking. First, whom the text addresses: who does the paragraph speak of, an institution or a person? Second, the amendment note: since when has the sentence read this way? Third, the reference: does the article bring another text's provision into play, as 7258 does with 5651? Those three questions also keep the four texts from being muddled.

The Legislation Information System divides laws into series: 7258, from 1959, sits in the third series, and 5237 and 5651 in the fifth. When looking a text up, entering that series alongside the law number takes you to the right page.

Where an online casino licence comes from

In these four texts there is no Turkish authority licensing online casino games. The licences of the operators in the ranking come from Curaçao and Anjouan; the numbers, the holding companies and the dates of the register searches are written out one by one on the licence and security page.

What the official sources write about winnings and the rate difference is a separate subject; the tax page gathers that.

The age limit and support

The operators' own terms do not open accounts for anyone under 18. Anyone struggling with gambling or betting can call the Yeşilay Counselling Centre (YEDAM, yedam.org.tr) free on its helpline, 115.

Sources and the date read

All the texts were opened on 15 September 2026:

The TCMB regulation: resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2021/04/20210416–4.htm.
Law no. 7258: mevzuat.gov.tr, law number 7258, third series.
Penal Code no. 5237 and Law no. 5651: mevzuat.gov.tr, fifth series.
Law no. 7518: resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2024/07/20240702–1.htm.

Texts can change; before a paragraph is quoted, its current form should be opened again at the same addresses.

Frequently asked questions

Why does this page reach no conclusion?

Because each of the four texts describes a different party addressed, and how it applies to one person's situation depends on the details of that situation. The page reports only the number of each text, its date and whom it is directed at. If you need an assessment of your own position, that is for a lawyer who knows your file.

How many separate roles are counted in article 5 of Law no. 7258?

There are five paragraphs: running the game or providing a place for it, making a game run abroad accessible from Türkiye, brokering the transfer of money, encouraging play by advertising, and playing. For the first four the text provides for imprisonment; for playing it writes an administrative monetary sanction to be imposed by the civil administrative authority.

Whom does the TCMB regulation bind?

Article 4 counts the parties addressed: payment service providers together with payment and electronic money institutions. Those institutions cannot build a payment business model resting on crypto assets and cannot act as intermediaries in transfers of funds to or from crypto platforms. The regulation came into force on 30 April 2021.

Whom does Law no. 7518 regulate?

Crypto-asset service providers: platforms and institutions providing custody services. The law added definitions such as wallet, platform and crypto asset to Law no. 6362, and by article 35/B made the establishment and commencement of activity of those institutions subject to the board's permission. The text was published on 2 July 2024.

Is there an authority in Türkiye that licenses online casinos?

No such authority appears in the four texts on this page. The licences of the operators in the ranking come from Curaçao and Anjouan; the number, the holder and the date of the register search for each are set out on the licence and security page.