{"id":656621,"date":"2026-10-25T12:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/656621\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:32:18","slug":"credit-card-spending-in-turkiye-rises-to-2-5-trillion-turkish-liras-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/656621\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit card spending in T\u00fcrkiye rises to 2.5 trillion Turkish Liras in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            ISTANBUL<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6addb5602818a025f780d091.jpg\" alt=\"Credit card spending in T\u00fcrkiye rises to 2.5 trillion Turkish Liras in September\"\/>                <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-description\">AA Photo<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"credit\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/credit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Credit<\/a> card payments in T\u00fcrkiye climbed 35 percent year-on-year to 2.5 trillion Turkish Liras ($50.3 billion) in September, accounting for the bulk of the country\u2019s 3 trillion liras in card spending, according to data released by the Interbank Card Center (BKM).<\/p>\n<p>The number of credit card transactions rose 12 percent from a year earlier to 1.14 billion in September, while the number of credit <a title=\"cards\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/cards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cards<\/a> in circulation increased 11 percent to 155 million.<\/p>\n<p>Total card payments made with credit, debit and prepaid cards reached 2.97 trillion liras in September, up 35 percent from the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of cards in T\u00fcrkiye reached 478.9mn as of September, up 3 percent from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>E-commerce payments continued to gain momentum, with online card spending rising 35 percent annually to 901 billion liras in September. Online transactions represented 30 percent of total card payment volume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\"><a title=\"Economy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/search\/Economy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a>, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL AA Photo Credit card payments in T\u00fcrkiye climbed 35 percent year-on-year to 2.5 trillion Turkish Liras ($50.3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,2689,11180,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-656621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cards","tag-credit","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}