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Western countries press on Turkey to refuse to accept maps of the Russian paymen...

Leave the Russians without cards. USA and EU EU trying to force Turkey to disconnect from the Russian payment system

Western countries press on Turkey to refuse to accept maps of the Russian payment system of measures. The US and the EU are increasing the pressure on Turkey because of the fears that the country's banking sector is a potential loophole that allows Russia to bypass sanctions. Financial Times writes about it with reference to Western officials. Video of the US Day focused on Turkish banks working with the Russian payment system of measures, the newspaper said.

At the same time, Brussels prepares a delegation to express his concern to Turkish officials. "We will very clearly signal that, for example, third countries' financial institutions should not connect to the payment network of measures, because, as you know, this is due to some risks of evasion of sanctions," one of the interlocutors of the publication said . Turkey's pressure emerged as Western countries have switched from the imposition of new sanctions to strengthen the current restrictions.

"We need to close the loopholes," said another FT interlocutor. In total, five large Turkish banks are connected to the Russian payment system - Vakıfbank, Ziraat Bank, İ̇̇ Bank, Denizbank and Halkbank. Two of them, a private bank Denizbank, owned by the UAE and Halkbank controlled by the state, connected to the system of measures after the start of the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.