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Middle East & Africa

Identity verification
built for Türkiye Flag of Türkiye

T.C. Kimlik Kartı and Pasaport on one session, screened against MASAK sanctions and Turkish PEP registers, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Türkiye.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Turkish identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-T.C.-Kimlik attacks targeting the country's crypto exchanges and BDDK-licensed payment institutions, T.C. Kimlik Kartı and Ehliyet template forgery during the ongoing migration from the legacy paper credentials to the 2017 chip-enabled card, and AML pressure on cross-border remittance and stablecoin corridors under MASAK sanctions and SPK's 2024 crypto-asset service provider regime. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law No. 5549 on the Prevention of Laundering Proceeds of Crime
  • Law No. 6698 (KVKK · Personal Data Protection)
  • Law No. 7518 of 2024 (crypto-asset service providers)
  • BDDK Regulation on Remote Identity Verification (April 2021)
  • MASAK Communiqués and Guidelines on Customer Due Diligence
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Türkiye.

These are the supervisors a Türkiye verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them, no separate integration per agency.
  • BDDK

    Bankacılık Düzenleme ve Denetleme Kurumu, Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency. Prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, and electronic money institutions under Law No. 6493.

  • SPK

    Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu, Capital Markets Board. Securities supervisor and the crypto-asset service provider licensing authority under Law No. 7518 of 2024.

  • MASAK

    Mali Suçları Araştırma Kurulu, Turkey's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 5549 on the Prevention of Laundering Proceeds of Crime and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.

  • KVKK

    Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu, Personal Data Protection Authority. Enforces Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data. Governs every identity verification on Turkish residents.

  • NVİ

    Nüfus ve Vatandaşlık İşleri Genel Müdürlüğü, General Directorate of Civil Registration and Citizenship Affairs. Issues the T.C. Kimlik Kartı and maintains the authoritative population register (MERNİS).

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Türkiye database cross-check, composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • T.C. Kimlik Kartı (the chip-enabled card rolled out since 2017), Pasaport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Sürücü Belgesi (Ehliyet), Yabancı Tanıtma Belgesi for foreign residents, and Mavi Kart for former Turkish citizens.
  • Returns the name, 11-digit T.C. Kimlik No, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • T.C. Kimlik Kartı (chip-enabled)
  • Pasaport, chip read on e-Passport
  • Sürücü Belgesi · Yabancı Tanıtma Belgesi · Mavi Kart
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows, user turns or blinks. The BDDK Remote Identity Verification Regulation explicitly permits this active-liveness flow for tier-1 remote onboarding.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Turkish watchlists:

  • Ministry of Treasury and Finance, TF Current List, terror-financing designations under Law No. 5549.
  • Grand National Assembly (TBMM), PEP Level 1 elected deputies and senior parliamentary officials.
  • Republic of Turkey Presidency, PEP Level 1 presidential apparatus officials.
  • MASAK Communiqués, designated entities and individuals under financial-crime enforcement.
  • Turkey Competition Authority (TRCA), Special-Interest Entities register.
  • Constitutional Court of Turkey, PEP register for judicial officials.
  • Ministry of National Defence, PEP register for senior defense officials.
  • BDDK, Regulatory enforcement watchlist, Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency enforcement actions.
  • SPK, Enforcement and disciplinary register, Capital Markets Board enforcement actions.
  • MİT, PEP and designated persons register, National Intelligence Organization designations.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check the identity at scale.

On top of the OCR + biometric + AML stack, Didit pairs the captured T.C. Kimlik Kartı and Pasaport with the global Database Validation surface, phone, email, address, credit-header, and document-template checks across 50+ countries.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Turkey currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the MERNİS / NVİ population register does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators without BDDK-supervised data partnership agreements.
  • For phone / email / address sanity checks, pair the session with the global Database Validation services that already work in Turkey today.
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Stage 04Cross-check the identity at scale

Cross-check the identity at scale , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Türkiye document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Türkiye.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against, civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter, the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
Read the security & compliance dossier
EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Türkiye.

What does Didit ship?

Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:

  • User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
  • Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
  • Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.

Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.

How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?

Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:

  • Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
  • Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
  • Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
  • User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
  • Flexibility. One /v3/ Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.

Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.

What does it cost? Is anything actually free?

500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.

Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.

Which Turkish regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Turkish identity-verification flow:

  • Bankacılık Düzenleme ve Denetleme Kurumu (BDDK), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, payment institutions, and electronic money institutions through the April 2021 Regulation on Remote Identity Verification under Law No. 6493.
  • Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu (SPK), securities supervisor and the crypto-asset service provider licensing authority under Law No. 7518 of 2024.
  • Mali Suçları Araştırma Kurulu (MASAK), Turkey's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 5549 on the Prevention of Laundering Proceeds of Crime and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
  • Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu (KVKK), enforces Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data. Governs how the verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all four at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Is Didit compliant with the BDDK Remote Identity Verification Regulation?

Yes, the hosted flow maps cleanly to the BDDK April 2021 Regulation.

  • Document verification, the regulation requires a chip-read or template-validated check of the T.C. Kimlik Kartı or Pasaport. Didit auto-classifies, OCR-parses, and validates template authenticity on both.
  • Active liveness, the regulation requires a dynamic liveness step (head turn, blink, or comparable signal) for tier-1 remote onboarding. Didit ships Active Liveness at $0.15 per check.
  • Face Match 1:1, the regulation requires a biometric match against the document portrait. Didit ships Face Match 1:1 at $0.05 per check.
  • AML screening, MASAK requires sanctions and PEP screening at onboarding plus periodic review. Didit ships AML Screening at $0.20 per check and Ongoing AML at $0.07 per user / year.

All four modules compose into one POST /v3/session/ workflow with one JSON report, what a BDDK-supervised institution's compliance team needs for the regulatory file.

Does Didit screen against the Turkish Ministry of Treasury terror-financing list?

Yes, on every AML Screening call.

  • Didit screens names against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.
  • Plus every Turkish national list MASAK expects an obliged entity to monitor, Ministry of Treasury and Finance TF Current List (terror-financing designations), Grand National Assembly (TBMM) PEP register, Turkey Competition Authority (TRCA) Special-Interest Entities, Presidency and Ministry-level PEP registers.
  • AML Screening costs $0.20 per check; Ongoing AML monitoring costs $0.07 per user / year and re-checks every customer daily, what MASAK-obliged institutions need for the periodic-review obligation under Law No. 5549.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Turkey?

5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.

  • Sign up at business.didit.me, grab an API key, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test.
  • Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.

The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Turkey stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Turkish users?

Turkish, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Turkish users land on the Turkish flow by default, and English is live on the same flow for cross-locale teams.

The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture works in any language, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.

What does the Turkey verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check.
  • Passive Liveness, $0.10. Active Liveness, $0.15 (the BDDK-required tier-1 liveness step).
  • Face Match 1:1, $0.05. Face Search 1:N, free.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check. Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Turkey surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.

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