Turkey observed a large gender gap when it comes to the use of cryptocurrency for payments or trading in 2020. This according to a survey held that year, which investigated a sample group that had used Bitcoin for transactions. A large majority were of this group were men. Note that the figures shown in here are different from other sources that mention Turkey as one of the leading countries worldwide in terms of crypto. Statista's own consumer surveys also lists Turkey as one of those countries. Unlike most other surveys - which focus on ownership - this particular survey seems to look at practical use, asking respondents whether they used cryptocurrencies for transactions or trading.

In Turkey, the share of people who had heard of cryptocurrency or Bitcoin rose dramatically, from 16 percent in 2020 to 70 percent in 2021. In 2023 and 2024, almost all participants of the survey were familiar with the concept of Bitcoin or cryptocurrency.

In 2024, the share of the people who made a transaction with cryptocurrency reached 27 percent in Turkey. In comparison, the share of respondents who had made transactions with cryptocurrency or bitcoin was way lower in 2020, measuring at 0.7 percent.

According to a 2020 survey in Turkey, a small number of respondents used cryptocurrencies for transactions - of which seven out ten were from Gen Y. The numbers provided in here are significantly different from various sources that list Turkey as one of the countries worldwide with a large interest in crypto, including consumer surveys conducted on this topic by Statista. Unlike most other surveys - which focus on ownership - this particular survey seems to look at practical use, asking respondents whether they used cryptocurrencies for transactions or trading.

Prices for TRYBTC Turkish Lira Bitcoin including live quotes, historical charts and news. TRYBTC Turkish Lira Bitcoin was last updated by Trading Economics this March 26 of 2025.

The global Binance app is used often for crypto in Turkey, although most consumers preferred local language platforms. BtcTurk PRO, Paribu and Binance TR - Turkey's branch of Binance - are all from the country itself, reaching a cumulative market share of roughly 36 percent based on lifetime downloads since the apps were initially released. Consequently, big name apps such as Metamask or Coinbase were used less often in Turkey.

The dataset of the study includes the daily closing prices of Bitcoin (BTC), three altcoins Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC) and Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange 100 Index (BIST100) between August 07, 2015 and May 20, 2021. All data are in US dollars. The cryptocurrencies and the BIST100, respectively, were obtained from www.coinmarketcap.com and The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey database (https://evds2.tcmb.gov.tr/).

Turkey's domestically developed apps for cryptocurrency purchasing or storage were more popular than the Coinbase app in 2021. Two things stand out for Turkey: First, the domestic nature of most its cryptocurrency apps. BtcTurk, Thodex, OKEx and Bitay are all Turkish, with only Binance being a popular non-domestic alternative. Second, the daily active users or DAU observed in February 2021 is higher than the DAU for cryptocurrency wallets in the United Kingdom. Indeed, in 2020 Turkey ranked inside the top 10 of in a consumer comparison for 55 different countries worldwide on cryptocurrency adoption.

Prices for ETHTRY Ethereum Turkish Lira including live quotes, historical charts and news. ETHTRY Ethereum Turkish Lira was last updated by Trading Economics this March 27 of 2025.

In Turkey, the share of people who heard of cryptocurrency or Bitcoin rose dramatically in 2021 compared to 2020. Moreover, 7 people out of 10 stated that they had heard of cryptocurrency or Bitcoin in 2021.

Prices for BCHTRY Bitcoin Cash Turkish Lira including live quotes, historical charts and news. BCHTRY Bitcoin Cash Turkish Lira was last updated by Trading Economics this March 26 of 2025.

According to a survey conducted about cryptocurrency awareness in Turkey, only 17 percent of the respondents knew cryptocurrencies well. Moreover, one-third of the people had heard of cryptocurrencies but did not know much about them, while almost half of the participants had only a vague idea.

Turkish Finance, Crypto, and Machine Learning Dataset

This dataset contains text data in Turkish covering finance, cryptocurrency, and machine learning topics. It is designed to train and develop natural language processing (NLP) models with Turkish text.

  Contents

Financial Literacy Cryptocurrency Regulations Machine Learning Ethics

Each data sample consists of 'instruction', 'input', and 'output' fields.

  Usage

The dataset can be loaded using the datasets… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/xesutr/crypto_ml_turkish.

Finances are an important part of life. When looking at the cryptocurrency owners in selected countries worldwide, Turkey and Nigeria lead the ranking. 55 percent of consumers from Turkey as well as 42 percent from Nigeria are part of this category. Statista Consumer Insights offer you all results of our exclusive Statista surveys, based on more than 2,000,000 interviews.

"Credit cards" and "Cryptocurrency (e.g., Bitcoin)" are the top two answers among Turkish consumers in our survey on the subject of "Most used financial products".The survey was conducted online among 1,048 respondents in Turkey, in 2024. Statista Consumer Insights offer you all results of our exclusive Statista surveys, based on more than 2,000,000 interviews.

As of June 2024, the account of Merkez Bankası (the Central Bank of Turkey) reached more than 608,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter) and ranked first in the finance category in Turkey. Moreover, the account of Binance Türkiye, a cryptocurrency exchange platform, placed second on the social media platform, with over 526,000 follower count.

The most popular LUNC trade in June 2024 involved the Terra Luna Classic/Tether pair on Binance, making up over 30 percent of total 24h trade volume. Trades involving LUNA and Tether were also frequent on other exchanges, such as the Turkish crypto exchange BtcTurk. Among the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, Luna was traded relatively frequently on Binance whereas no trades were observed for a platform like Mandala Exchange

Out of the big soccer clubs worldwide that offer fan tokens, Paris Saint-Germain's market cap was over 20 million U.S. dollars higher than that of FC Barcelona. Fan tokens from the Catalan club became especially popular in April 2021 after they were listed on crypto trading platform Binance - explaining the sudden growth in market cap around that time. The market cap increase for PSG is less clear, although there have been reports that Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi received "a large amount of" cryptocurrency fan tokens as a signing on fee at the French club. Regardless, fan tokens - or NFTs issued by sports clubs that grant owners special perks or give them (limited) ownership over their favorite team, and can be bought and traded like cryptocurrencies - became increasingly popular in 2021. This development originally started in Italy to spread to Spain and Turkey, with AS Roma and Manchester City becoming the latest clubs to join in this trend.

Singapore's most downloaded crypto wallets include Crypto.com, Metamask, and Binance - although the latter was impacted substantially in 2022. These figures were gathered according to estimates based on the downloads of 25 different apps that focus on digital assets since 2015 - and that attracted the highest average amount of downloads per day since the initial release of the app. Up until February 2022, Binance consistently ranked among the most downloaded crypto apps in Singapore. Downloads stopped during that month, however, as a ban came into effect because the company had withdrawn its crypto exchange license within the country. This consequently led to an increase in the number of downloads of two sub-versions of Binance: Binance TR, the exchange from Turkey, and Binance Custody, an institutional investor variant of the platform.