The role of financial institutions with combating money laundering in Turkey

Nowadays, with the acceleration of globalization process, crime economy won a global characteristic as well. Increasing the size of the crime economy, need for laundering of large amounts of income which gained by criminals has gained importance.Especially, with the improvements in information technologies and with icreasing of the interpersonal and international connections, crimes and crime organizations have gained an international character. This situation has brought the different tools and opportunities to black money launderers. As a result of this, they became illimitable.In the laundering of black money, institutions and countries may be used as intermediary. This situation may bring lots of problems to institutions and countries. Economics of countries and institutions will be affected by these problems and it can cause o disorders of the economy.Crime of laundering is tried to prevent with dual, regional and global agreements among countries. Via international organizations and international agreements our country has determined both a path for itself and took place in international struggle in the laundering process.By establishing the subject of, the struggle of financial institutions with money laundering in our country, it is put forth in this thesis, what black money laundering is, its stages, effects, the extention of money laundering in the world, and the international developments in the struggle with money laundering along with the latest developments of struggle with money laundering in our country, legal arrangements and applications.