That's a bit off subject anyway, and over the political invention that someone came up with to call Turkey part of Europe anyway.

Thousands of years of the Turkish "relationship" with Europe was as a foreign invader, not a part of the European community.

Note, the Iranians though control their own money because they guard their own wealth. European banks have been pretty bad about snatching money for a long time, largely due to the prevailing legal system in Europe which is based on guilty until proven innocent. That's why they have an entire "underground financial infrastructure" aimed at "money laundering" which draws its roots to the cleptocratic governments which at one time took turns controlling the various countries there.

The formation of the EU was supposed to solve those problems but in a lot of ways made them worse, which is why a lot of financial stuff is no longer handled in Switzerland, but by outfits with office towers in Dubai, most of which are guarded by privately paid mercenaries.

You are going to start seeing more security oriented banking arrangements in the US as things decline and more stories get around about how people got their wealth looted.

Parking your wealth on the backside of some paranoid armed survivalist compound is probably one of the most secure investments you can make these days.


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