“We will make it clear that, for example, financial organizations from third countries should not connect to the MIR payment system, because this is associated with the risk of circumventing sanctions,” TASS quotes one of the interlocutors of the publication.
Another source noted that the West wants to “fix loopholes,” one of which is Turkey.
At the moment, MIR cards work in five Turkish banks - Turkiye Is Bankasi, Ziraat Bankasi, VakifBank, DenizBank and Halkbank.
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following talks in Sochi with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, said that there was serious progress in the use of Russian MIR cards in Turkey.