Turkish Citizenship Online: What Can Be Done Remotely (2026)

Turkish Citizenship Online: What Can Be Done Remotely (2026)

This guide is current as of 28 October 2026. It explains how Turkish citizenship online is handled when the route is a real-estate purchase worth at least USD 400,000, and it separates the steps that official sources describe as electronic or remote from the steps that happen at a title office, a migration directorate, a population directorate or a Turkish mission. The legal text, the Land Registry and Cadastre General Directorate (TKGM) circulars, the Central Bank instruction and the ministry pages are used throughout, and each rule carries the source and date it was read.

The reader will find the legal basis of the exceptional route, the current thresholds for every investment type, the valuation and currency-exchange requirements, the family members covered, what a power of attorney can and cannot do, a document checklist, a dated timeline of rule changes and a worked cost example on a hypothetical purchase. The phrase Turkish citizenship online is used here in a narrow sense: the official channels allow several stages to be completed without travelling, but no official source describes a single online filing that replaces the in-person stages.

What “Turkish citizenship online” means in the official sources

Turkish citizenship online is not a legal category. Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901 contains no provision for an online application, and the implementing regulation lists documents and authorities rather than a portal. What exists is a chain of electronic and remote steps wrapped around a small number of filings that officials receive in person or through an authorised representative. The chain begins with a valuation request made in the WebTapu system of TKGM, passes through a currency sale at a Turkish bank whose proof is sent to the title office by registered electronic mail (KEP), and ends with filings at the provincial migration directorate and the provincial population and citizenship directorate.

Three official statements define the limits of the remote part. First, Article 37 of Law No. 5901 says that applications concerning acquisition or loss of citizenship are made to the governorate of the place of residence in Turkey or, abroad, to Turkish missions, either in person or through a power of attorney issued for exercising this right. Second, TKGM states on its Your Key Türkiye portal that a power of attorney can be used in the property transaction if it covers the specific act, and that a power of attorney issued abroad must meet formal conditions. Third, TKGM states that the amount confirmation document (TTB) is sent through the electronic system and that a paper copy handed over in person is not processed.

The rest of this guide follows those three points. It describes the route as the regulation and TKGM describe it, without ranking providers or predicting outcomes, because the final decision belongs to the President under Law No. 5901.

Legal basis, institutions and dated rule changes

The exceptional route sits in Article 12 of Law No. 5901, which was adopted on 29 May 2009 and published in the Official Gazette on 12 June 2009 (No. 27256). Article 12(1) lets the President grant citizenship to named categories of foreigners, provided no obstacle exists on national security or public order grounds. Sub-paragraph (b), added by Law No. 6735 of 28 July 2016, covers foreigners holding a residence permit under Article 31(1)(j) of Law No. 6458 or a Turquoise Card, together with the foreign spouse and the minor or dependent foreign children of the person and of the spouse. Article 12(2) adds that requests with a national-security or public-order obstacle are rejected by the Ministry.

The investment types and amounts are not in the law. They sit in Article 20(2) of the Regulation on the Implementation of the Turkish Citizenship Law, which was published on 6 April 2010 (Official Gazette No. 27544) and has been amended several times by Presidential decisions. The Ministry of the Interior, through the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs, runs the procedure under Article 19(2) of the law, while the body that confirms each investment differs by route.

The rules for the property route have changed repeatedly, and the date on which a property was acquired decides which version applies. The table below lists the changes that TKGM and the Interior and Labour ministries themselves document, with the date each one took effect.

The real-estate route: value, property type and the three-year annotation

Article 20(2)(b) of the regulation, as reproduced on TKGM’s portal and in the consolidated text published by the Konya Investment Support Office, sets the property route at a minimum of USD 400,000 or the equivalent in foreign currency. The property must be a condominium unit or a unit with a condominium easement established, or a plot that already carries a building. The foreigner must either buy it with an annotation in the title register that it will not be sold for three years, or conclude a notarised sale-promise contract under which at least USD 400,000 is paid up front and the three-year undertaking is annotated against the sale promise.

The TKGM guide of 9 December 2024 adds the conditions that title offices apply. The property must be registered as an independent section under Condominium Law No. 634, or registered as a plot with a permanent building that holds an occupancy permit. Plots without a building that carry the two-year project-development obligation under Article 35(4) of Land Registry Law No. 2644, agricultural land and timeshare rights cannot be used. The number of properties bought by sale is not limited, because the total value is what counts. A sale-promise application, by contrast, must rest on one single contract that names every property, and several separate sale-promise contracts are not taken into account.

What is tested and what is not

The guide separates three figures, and each must reach the threshold on its own. The first is the price declared in the official deed, or the sum of prices in the sale-promise contract. The second is the sum of the payments made. The third is the value confirmed in the TTB. Municipal tax value is not one of the tests. Cadastral value on its own is therefore not the deciding figure.

The guide also contains rules about who sits on the other side of the deal. The property cannot be registered to other foreigners or to first-degree relatives of the buyer who are Turkish citizens, and it cannot have been transferred to a Turkish citizen or company by the buyer’s own relatives. A property used for one citizenship application cannot be used again for another foreigner, and a property that carries an annotation that could change ownership, such as a sale promise or a pending lawsuit, is excluded. Shared acquisition is excluded as well: if several foreigners buy one property in shares, it cannot be used, while a property registered to several people that one foreigner buys in full can be used.

Mortgages are treated in detail. When the property is bought with a foreign-currency loan, the loan amount is deducted from the price and the remainder must still reach the minimum. A mortgage that is repaid and removed is judged on the amounts in the exchange documents. Properties carrying a statutory mortgage are excluded.

The three-year annotation

For a sale, the title deed contains a statement that the buyer undertakes not to sell for three years, and the register carries the matching annotation from the date of acquisition or the date of the registration request. For a sale promise, the annotation states that the contract will not be transferred or cancelled for three years from the annotation date. According to the guide, the annotation is removed on the owner’s request once three years have passed. If the property is later sold back to the previous owner or to that owner’s first-degree relatives after the period ends, the TYTB is cancelled. Other annotations and limited rights over the property remain possible, with the exception of a sale promise and a usufruct right.

Valuation report and the amount confirmation document (TTB)

Since circular 2024/2 took effect on 1 March 2024, the valuation behind a citizenship purchase is requested electronically. The Your Key Türkiye pages of TKGM, read on 28 October 2026, state that the amount confirmation document, abbreviated TTB, is produced from a valuation report prepared by any valuation firm authorised by the Capital Markets Board (SPK), attached through the TADEBİS valuation information system and sent into the TAKBİS and WebTapu systems. The request is made from the citizenship-purpose menu in WebTapu, and a paper TTB handed over in person is not processed.

The TTB shows the property investment amount that can be accepted for citizenship purposes. TKGM states that the interval between the TTB and the application containing the citizenship transaction may not exceed twelve months, and that a report older than twelve months is renewed. The same page notes that once the application is made, the TTB stays valid until that transaction is completed, and that a title-office request for the undertaking made more than twelve months after the sale does not require a new TTB. For several properties, the TTB values are added together, and where a TTB value is higher than the amount of the exchange purchase document for the same property, only the lower figure is counted.

Two further rules matter for the amount. If the TTB is below the amount the regulation requires, the application is rejected for transactions after 13 June 2024, according to the TKGM FAQ. Public bodies and their affiliates are exempt from TTB confirmation when they are a party. From 28 September 2026, real estate investment trusts that sell to foreigners for citizenship purposes must present a valuation report that was prepared before the deed date, published on the Public Disclosure Platform and showing the value of the unit, or they must request a new TTB through WebTapu and TADEBİS. A purchase from such a trust is therefore judged under the 28 September 2026 wording.

The valuation fee itself follows the SPK minimum tariff for 2026, published in the Official Gazette of 31 December 2025 (No. 33124, sixth repeated issue). For a residential unit the tariff shows TL 16,500 for 1 to 149 square metres of gross area, TL 17,622 for 150 to 250 square metres and TL 20,217 for 251 to 500 square metres. These are minimum amounts, and the parties may agree on more. VAT at the general 20 percent rate applies to valuation services, which has been the general rate since 10 July 2023 under Presidential Decision 7346.

Foreign currency sale and the exchange purchase document

The regulation requires that foreign currency intended for the property route is sold, before the transaction, to a bank in Türkiye, and that the bank sells it on to the Central Bank. TKGM’s guide calls the proof the exchange purchase document and says it is sent to the title office through KEP. The sale amount in that document is the basis for the deed price: the title office draws up the deed in the lira amount shown in the document, and no separate rate calculation is made on the application day.

The TCMB application instruction, whose text reflects amendments of 1 October 2026, sets the details. The currencies the banks sell to the Central Bank are the US dollar, the euro, the pound sterling and the Swiss franc, and a bank converts any other currency into one of them first. The transaction rate is the Central Bank foreign-exchange buying rate announced at 11:00 on the day the currency is converted into lira. Once the Central Bank has completed the purchase, the sale cannot be withdrawn and the operation cannot be cancelled, and the bank must tell the customer so before the operation. The document must carry at least the name and passport or foreigner identity number of the person whose currency was sold, the US dollar equivalent, and a statement that the operation was made under Article 20(10) of the regulation. For the property route, the TKGM guide requires the document to show the property number or, where none exists, the block and independent-section numbers.

The guide is explicit about what the sale amount may contain. Nothing other than the property price, or the up-front payment in a sale-promise contract, may sit inside the foreign-currency amount: VAT, commission, expenses, taxes and fees are paid separately. Payment receipts must show the property details or refer to the exchange document, and the guide says that the bank receipt showing payment to the seller must be submitted before the undertaking is recorded. In instalment sales the exchange document can be issued in parts, in line with the payments.

The regulation adds a separate conversion rule for threshold tests. Under Article 20(6), monetary values in the investment types are determined at the Central Bank’s effective selling rate or cross rate on the date of determination. On 27 October 2026 the TCMB bulletin (No. 2026/203) listed a USD banknote selling rate of 49.8639 and a forex buying rate of 49.6997, which the worked example below uses.

Family members covered: spouse, children and other relatives

Article 12(1)(b) of Law No. 5901 covers the foreign spouse and the minor or dependent foreign children of the investor and of the spouse. The wording is “minor or dependent”, which is wider than a simple age line of 18. The Ministry of Labour’s description of the 50-employee route repeats the same family wording for the residence permit under Article 31(1)(j) of Law No. 6458, which can be granted for up to five years at a time to the investor, the spouse and the minor or dependent children.

The investment itself is personal. The TKGM guide states that the regulation covers acquisitions by the foreign individual, so purchases registered in the name of a spouse, a child or a company in which the applicant is a partner or manager are not added to the investment value. A parent, an adult non-dependent child or a sibling is not among the persons Article 12(1)(b) lists. The general route in Article 11 of the law requires five years of uninterrupted residence in Türkiye, among other conditions, and Article 16 provides separate treatment for marriage to a Turkish citizen. If the decision is later cancelled, Article 32 extends the cancellation to the spouse and children who acquired citizenship through the investor.

The family file contains civil-status documents. Article 20(3) of the regulation lists a marital-status document, a marriage certificate if married, a divorce certificate or a spouse’s death certificate where relevant, and a document proving the family bond of the spouse and children. The authority also draws the population record of any first- or second-degree relatives who are Turkish citizens from its own system.

Turkish citizenship online step by step: where each stage happens

TKGM’s Your Key Türkiye portal publishes a ten-step sequence for the property stage, and the Interior and Labour ministries describe what follows. The table combines them and states the place and channel of each step.

Steps 1 to 6 are described in the TKGM roadmap. Steps 7 and 8 follow the Your Key Türkiye FAQ, which says that after the TYTB the investor applies to the provincial migration directorate for the citizenship-purpose residence permit and then to the provincial population and citizenship directorate for citizenship. The guide also mentions special offices in Ankara and Istanbul created to follow citizenship applications. Steps 9 and 10 come from Articles 12 and 19 of Law No. 5901, which describe a file sent to the Ministry, examination and research, and a decision, without setting a time limit for the decision.

Official time statements cover only parts of the chain. The TTB stays valid for twelve months before the application, a Treasury or SPK review of an investment confirmation runs in business days (see the routes section below), and the Ministry of Labour concludes complete 50-employee applications within seven business days. For the decision on citizenship, the law gives no period.

Turkish citizenship online: what a power of attorney can and cannot do

A power of attorney (vekâletname) can stand in for the buyer at the title office and, under Article 37 of Law No. 5901, in the citizenship application itself. The limits come from the wording of the document and from where it is issued.

Authority the document must contain

The TKGM guide says that a representative acting for the buyer needs explicit authority to give the undertaking that the property will not be sold for three years. It accepts an authorisation to give that undertaking, an authorisation to make a citizenship application under the Turkish Citizenship Law, an authorisation to make the transaction in order to benefit from the Turkish Citizenship Law, or at minimum a clause allowing the representative to give any undertaking and consent at title offices. A missing authority is listed among formal deficiencies that the title office notifies and that can be completed before the undertaking is cancelled. For a sale promise, the guide says that a sale-promise contract stating that it is made for citizenship purposes allows the promisee to apply alone, while a contract without that statement needs both parties.

Formalities when the document is issued abroad

The Your Key Türkiye FAQ lists three ways in which a power of attorney issued abroad can be used at a title office. The first is a document executed in the form of a drawing-up at a Turkish consulate. The second is a document issued in a country party to the Hague Convention, suited to disposing of immovable property, written in the language of the country where it was made, containing the person’s photograph and carrying an apostille. The third is a document issued by a foreign notary in its own language with a photograph, where the authority to which the notary’s signature is attached is certified, and that authority’s signature and seal are certified by the Turkish consulate. The portal page on powers of attorney adds that a stamp or seal must appear on the photograph and be connected to all pages, that the document language must be that of the issuing country, and that where the notary and the apostille authority are the same kind of office, the two signatures must differ. For digitally signed apostilles, the QR code or listed website must be used to link the apostille and the document.

The TKGM FAQ states that foreigners with property in Türkiye or an intention to invest can complete title and cadastre transactions through the Berlin Title and Cadastre Representation without going to the place where the property lies. The FAQ does not extend this to the citizenship decision, which stays with the Ministry and the President. The official sources describe the property stage as the one that can be completed at a distance, and they describe the citizenship filing and the residence-permit appointment as filings made to the authorities named in the table.

Document checklist

Two sets of documents exist for a Turkish citizenship online file: the set used at the title office for the property stage, and the file the authority builds for the citizenship application under Article 20(3) of the regulation. The table lists both with their official sources.

The regulation says the authorities prepare the file on the Ministry’s written instruction. The list of foreign civil documents in the file is the one in Article 20(3), and the formalities for foreign-issued civil documents are those the receiving authority applies. The TKGM portal states that the identity declaration form is a title-office document, separate from the citizenship file.

Other investment routes and thresholds

Article 20(2) lists seven investment types. The property route is the only one with a USD 400,000 minimum; the others have USD 500,000 or a job-creation test. The table gives each route with the authority that confirms it, as the regulation text published on 12 December 2023 reads, and as the competent bodies describe it.

Article 20(8) of the regulation allows moving between investment types to complete the required period, and Article 20(9) leaves the procedure for each confirmation to the confirming body. Article 20(10) requires the foreign-currency amounts of the property, deposit, bond, fund and pension routes to be sold through a bank to the Central Bank before the transaction, and the lira obtained is kept in lira deposits, lira government instruments or pension funds for three years. The TCMB instruction adds that the bank that sold the currency must be the bank that holds the lira deposit.

The bodies’ own pages give procedure details. The SPK page for the fund route describes the same USD 500,000 threshold with a three-year holding period, and states that the holding is checked weekly through the Central Registry Agency. The application goes to SPK in writing with the registry number, proof that the units sit in the citizenship blocking sub-account and a passport copy, and the SPK timetable is two business days to request the holding data, three business days for the registry reply and two business days to issue the compliance certificate. A fall in the unit value below USD 500,000 because of exchange-rate movement does not affect the application or the citizenship, according to the SPK page. The Treasury’s procedure document for government debt instruments requires a blocked investment account at a bank for at least three years, states that the Ministry reports its determination within five business days of receiving a complete bank file, and says that falling below the minimum because of exchange rates or market conditions does not count as losing the minimum.

The Ministry of Labour’s page on the 50-employee route lists a signed petition, a notarised signature declaration, an employment information form, passport copy, trade registry records, a workplace employee list from the social security system, tax and social security debt letters and a statement on administrative fines in the previous six months. Complete applications are concluded within seven business days, and incomplete ones get thirty days to be completed. The amounts for threshold tests on the money routes are fixed in US dollars. For illustration, USD 500,000 at the 27 October 2026 TCMB banknote selling rate of 49.8639 equals TL 24,931,950 (500,000 x 49.8639).

Costs and duties: worked example on a USD 400,000 purchase

The example uses a hypothetical resale apartment bought for exactly USD 400,000 by a foreign individual who sells the currency through a Turkish bank. It assumes a gross area of 120 square metres, a reinforced-concrete building in earthquake risk group III, a sale on which no VAT is charged, and a municipal tax value below the price. These are assumptions for arithmetic, not data about any property. The conversion rate is the TCMB forex buying rate of 49.6997 for 27 October 2026 (bulletin 2026/203), used as an illustration because the instruction’s own rate is the one announced at 11:00 on the day of the operation.

Step 1, lira price: 400,000 x 49.6997 = TL 19,879,880. The title office draws the deed in the lira amount shown in the exchange purchase document.

Step 2, title deed fee: Tariff (4), section I, item 20(a) of Law No. 492 applies the fee at 2 percent (binde 20) separately to the person who transfers and the person who acquires, on the declared price or the municipal tax value, whichever is higher. The buyer’s share is 19,879,880 x 0.02 = TL 397,597.60, which is USD 8,000.00 at the same rate. The seller’s equal share is not a buyer cost.

Step 3, valuation fee for the TTB: the SPK 2026 minimum for a unit of 1 to 149 square metres is TL 16,500, and VAT at 20 percent adds 16,500 x 0.20 = TL 3,300, giving TL 19,800 (USD 398.39).

Step 4, earthquake insurance: the DASK page lists a unit cost of TL 12,039 per square metre for reinforced concrete for policies starting 1 October 2026, a maximum sum insured of TL 2,552,268 and a rate of 2.13 per mille for group III. The sum insured is 12,039 x 120 = TL 1,444,680, below the maximum, and the premium is 1,444,680 x 2.13 / 1,000 = TL 3,077.17 (USD 61.92).

The subtotal of TL 420,474.77 equals 420,474.77 / 19,879,880 = 2.12 percent of the price. If the notarised sale-promise route is used instead of a deed at the title office, the notary tariff for 2026 sets 1 per mille of the value with a floor of TL 500 and a ceiling of TL 4,000, so 19,879,880 x 0.001 = TL 19,879.88 is capped at TL 4,000, and the subtotal becomes TL 424,474.77 (USD 8,540.79). The 2026 notary tariff also lists TL 667.67 per translated page and TL 80.68 per page as writing fee, which apply to sworn-translation and drafting work done at a notary. These per-page items depend on the number of pages and are not added to the table.

Several items sit outside the arithmetic because they depend on facts the example does not fix: the title-office service fee, which TKGM notifies by SMS before payment; VAT on a developer’s first sale; the Treasury service fee for the citizenship file; fees for the power of attorney and its apostille or consular certification; and fees for the residence permit. The VAT, commission, expenses, taxes and fees are not part of the foreign-currency amount, according to the TKGM guide, so each is paid in addition to the USD 400,000 sold to the bank. The general fee and tax rules for buying in Türkiye are covered in the Turkey property tax calculator, the tax guide for buying a house in Turkey and the guide to associated costs. The question of paying in instalments is treated in the guide to buying in instalments, and the TKGM guide states that for the citizenship route the amount required up front under a sale promise must be paid by the contract date.

Residence permit by property, citizenship and tax residency

Two different permissions are often confused. A short-term residence permit for property owners rests on Article 31(1)(b) of Law No. 6458, which covers foreigners who own immovable property in Türkiye. Citizenship rests on Article 12 of Law No. 5901. The migration administration’s e-İkamet list of documents, read on 28 October 2026, states for the property-owner permit that the value of the home at the acquisition date must be at least USD 200,000 in lira, that the unit must be a home used by the foreigner for that purpose, and that it cannot be used for rent or similar income. Article 31(6) of Law No. 6458, added by Law No. 7533 in November 2024, gives the Ministry the power to set the nature and value of the property behind this permit.

The permit used on the way to citizenship is a different one. Article 31(1)(j) of Law No. 6458 allows a short-term permit for foreigners who do not work in Türkiye but invest in the scope and amount the President sets, together with the foreign spouse and the minor or dependent children, and Article 31(5) lets such permits run up to five years at a time. The Ministry of Labour page quotes the same wording. The residence-permit route is discussed on the Turkey residence permit page, and the wider citizenship and immigration pages are the Turkey citizenship and immigration section and the page on Turkish citizenship by investment.

Tax residency

Citizenship and tax residency are separate tests. Articles 3 and 4 of Income Tax Law No. 193 tax residents on their worldwide income. Residents are persons whose legal domicile is in Türkiye and persons who stay in Türkiye continuously for more than six months in a calendar year, with temporary absences not interrupting the stay. Article 6 limits people who are not resident to income earned in Türkiye. Acquiring citizenship does not appear among those tests, so the question of where a person is taxed turns on domicile and length of stay, plus any tax treaty the person’s other country has with Türkiye. Rental income, sale gains and annual property taxes are set out in the calculator and in the tax guide. Rules differ by person, so the outcome depends on individual facts.

Refusal, cancellation and revocation

Article 10 of Law No. 5901 states that meeting the conditions does not give a person an absolute right to citizenship. Article 12(2) says the Ministry rejects requests from people with a national-security or public-order obstacle, and Article 19 says the Ministry rejects those it finds unsuitable after examination and research. The law gives no list of reasons beyond these.

After the decision, Article 31 provides that a decision to grant citizenship is cancelled by the authority that issued it if it resulted from a false statement or from concealing important matters that formed the basis of the acquisition. Article 32 states that cancellation takes effect from the decision date and also applies to the spouse and children who acquired citizenship through the person concerned. Article 33 refers to Law No. 5683 for persons whose citizenship is cancelled and allows the cancellation decision to order liquidation of assets where that is judged necessary.

The title-register side has its own consequences. The undertaking signed at the title office refers expressly to Article 31 and records the buyer’s acceptance that the TYTB is cancelled if the information given turns out to be incomplete, wrong or misleading. According to the guide, the TYTB is also cancelled if the property is made the subject of a sale promise within the undertaking period, or is transferred after the period to the previous owner or to that owner’s first-degree relatives. If a mortgaged or attached property is lost to a forced sale, the title office reports it so that the TYTB can be cancelled. If the buyer asks for the undertaking to be removed after the TYTB but before three years have passed, the title office carries out the request and informs the provincial population and migration directorates promptly. Where a violation of the legislation is found before or after the acquisition, the undertaking is removed by the office itself and the TYTB is cancelled.

The same logic applies to the other routes. The Ministry of Labour reports applications that used false or misleading documents to the Ministry of the Interior, and the SPK, Treasury and bank-held routes depend on the investment remaining in place for the full holding period. For the property route, the three-year period is the practical window in which the annotation applies, and the guide’s rule that a property can be used for one citizenship application only means a purchase cannot be reused by a later buyer. Property-market context for Istanbul, where many applications concentrate, is on the Istanbul city page, the Istanbul apartments page, the Türkiye country page and the Turkey apartments page. Commercial units in hotels are counted in the official Turkey hotel statistics guide, which does not address citizenship eligibility.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Turkish citizenship be obtained online?

Turkish citizenship online is not offered as a single electronic procedure in the official sources. The valuation request in WebTapu, the sending of the exchange purchase document by KEP and the e-İkamet appointment are electronic, and a power of attorney can carry out the property stage and, under Article 37 of Law No. 5901, the filing. The decision is taken by the President after the Ministry’s examination.

What is the current minimum for the property route?

For Turkish citizenship online or in person alike, the regulation text and TKGM’s pages, read on 28 October 2026, state USD 400,000 or the equivalent in foreign currency. The deed price, the payments and the TTB value must each reach that figure, and the property must be a condominium unit or a plot carrying a permitted building.

Can the application be made without being in Türkiye?

Article 37 of Law No. 5901 allows applications at Turkish missions abroad, in person or by power of attorney, and TKGM states that title transactions can be handled through a representative or through the Berlin Representation. The official sources describe the residence-permit appointment and the filing at the authorities in the table above. Turkish citizenship online therefore covers the preparatory stages most clearly.

Does a power of attorney from my home country work?

For Turkish citizenship online through an attorney, TKGM accepts a power of attorney made abroad if it is a consular drawing-up, a Hague-convention document with a photograph and an apostille, or a foreign-notary document with a photograph and consular certification of the authority chain. The text must also authorise the specific acts, including the three-year undertaking or a citizenship application.

Which family members are included?

Article 12(1)(b) names the foreign spouse and the minor or dependent foreign children of the investor and of the spouse. Parents, siblings and adult children who are not dependent are not listed, and the investment must be made in the investor’s own name for the amount to count.

How long does the process take?

For Turkish citizenship online as for any other filing, the official statements cover parts of the chain: a TTB must be no more than twelve months old when the application is made, the Treasury reports on bond files within five business days, SPK works in two and three business-day stages, and the Ministry of Labour concludes complete employment files within seven business days. Law No. 5901 sets no period for the decision itself, so the total depends on the file.

Can the property be sold after the annotation?

The annotation runs three years from the acquisition or request date for a sale, or from the annotation date for a sale promise. It is removed on the owner’s request after three years, and the guide states that a later sale back to the previous owner or that owner’s first-degree relatives leads to cancellation of the TYTB.

Does citizenship make a person a Turkish tax resident?

Income Tax Law No. 193 uses domicile and more than six months of continuous stay in a calendar year as its tests for residents, and it taxes non-residents on Turkish-source income only. Citizenship is not one of the listed tests. The tax effects of owning property are in the tax guide.

How does this differ from a residence permit by property?

The e-İkamet list states USD 200,000 and use as a home for the property-owner permit under Law No. 6458, while the citizenship route states USD 400,000 under Law No. 5901 with a Central Bank currency sale and a three-year annotation. They rest on different laws and are decided by different authorities.

Can shops, hotel rooms or land be used?

The TKGM guide refers to independent sections under Condominium Law No. 634 and to plots with a permanent building holding an occupancy permit. Agricultural land, plots without a building and timeshare rights are excluded, and combinations of several properties are allowed when the total reaches the threshold.

Last checked: 28 October 2026. Sources: Law No. 5901, Law No. 6458, Regulation Article 20 text (Konya Investment Support Office), TKGM Your Key Türkiye citizenship page, TKGM valuation and TTB page, TKGM FAQ, TKGM powers of attorney page, TKGM guide of 9 December 2024, SPK fund route, Treasury procedure for government debt instruments, TCMB currency-sale instruction, TCMB rates of 27 October 2026, Ministry of Labour exceptional citizenship page, e-İkamet document list, Law No. 492, Income Tax Law No. 193, SPK 2026 valuation tariff (Official Gazette), 2026 notary tariff, DASK tariff, Presidential Decision 7346 on VAT rates.