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Turkey calls designation from global finance watchdog ‘unwarranted’

The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force added Turkey to its “grey list,” which indicates concerns about money laundering and terrorist financing.
Financial Action Task Force

Turkey criticized a global financial watchdog today for adding it to a list of countries that do not adequately counter money laundering and terrorist financing.

The Financial Action Task Force added Turkey to its so-called “grey list” yesterday. The Paris-based intergovernmental organization’s list includes countries that have "strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing,” as well as financial services related to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Countries on the list are working with the task force, according to its website.

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