turkish → English transcript

There's one area where Germany is clearly far behind Turkey, folks.

I might even say that Germany is 200 years behind Turkey on this.

Whenever I go to ATMs in Germany to deposit or withdraw money, I notice it every time.

Look, you walk into the bank and there are exactly four ATMs.

You go inside, there's one huge machine they've set up just to get bank account statements.

You can't do anything with it except get an account statement.

There's one machine where you can only deposit money into the bank.

There's one machine where you can only withdraw money.

With one bank's card, withdrawing money from or depositing money to another bank's account is a whole other hassle.

Let alone another bank, when I went to my own bank's ATM I couldn't deposit cash into my own account — they wouldn't allow it.

So apparently that ATM doesn't have a deposit function.

I'd have to go to another ATM half an hour away to deposit money.

I went to an ATM that supports deposits with the same card.

This time it says, "Your card is not valid for deposits."

For that you have to take out a subscription, get a giro account card, and pay who knows how many euros per month.

So, to be able to deposit into your own bank account commission-free, you have to pay the bank a monthly fee.

Besides that, I don't even want to mention banks' mobile apps.

Whatever you change in the bank's mobile app, they still send you a postal letter.

And inside the apps there's really no menu, nothing at all.

While banking apps in Germany have two or three options, Turkish banking apps, by comparison, look like Transformers, I mean.