The director of the Mir payment system denied rumors about problems with cards in Turkey

In Turkey, there are no problems with the operation of the cards of the Russian payment system Mir, said Vladimir Komlev, Director General of the National Payment Card System (NSPK). About it reported RIA News”.

The reason for the question of journalists was the message spread in social networks that Turkey will stop accepting Mir cards from September 10th. “Nothing bad has happened in Turkey. The work is going on in absolutely normal mode, everywhere where Mir cards were accepted, they are accepted. Maybe there will be some point isolated cases in a particular hotel where such a situation occurred. We carefully studied this situation, contacted our Turkish partners, they all said that there was no reason to worry, the work continues,” Komlev explained.

He noted that not all Turkish banks are ready to work with Russian banks, but you can always use another terminal or withdraw money from an ATM. “We don’t have any problems in Turkey now, we haven’t had and, I hope, we won’t have any,” added the general director of the NSPK.

Earlier, the Ministry of Economic Development reported that they were working on expanding the geography of accepting Mir cards in countries popular with Russians for tourist trips and seasonal residence.

At the end of August, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, at a press conference following negotiations with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said that the Mir system would soon be integrated with the Iranian Shetab. Also, the Russian Foreign Ministry previously reported on negotiations on the use of the Mir card in China, Azerbaijan and Egypt. The willingness to discuss the use of “Mir” in his country was also expressed by the head of the Ministry of Finance of Nicaragua, Ivan Acosta. Titiporn Manenate, executive director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, reported that in the kingdom, Mir cards could be operational within two to three months.

Following the meeting of Presidents of Turkey and Russia Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin in Sochi, where the leaders discussed increasing trade, paying for Russian gas in rubles and using Mir cards in Turkey. Several Western officials declared The Financial Times that the West is dissatisfied with Turkey’s growing cooperation with Russia and is ready to retaliate if Ankara helps Moscow bypass sanctions.