In Turkey, it is possible to keep your car with foreign license plates for longer than two years, but this requires certain conditions and procedures. If you have a work permit, a student residence permit or are a pensioner, you can bring a car into Turkey on bail. The official terms are as follows: You must have a work permit, student residence permit or pensioner status. The car...
A Turkish residence permit is not a one-time achievement — you need to extend a residence permit in Turkey through active, timely renewal, and understanding this process well before your current permit expires is essential for anyone who has settled into life in Turkey, particularly property owners whose residency is tied to their real estate investment. This guide walks through exactly how residence...
Knowing how to register a phone in Turkey matters for anyone who has bought a device abroad and brought it into Turkey, since IMEI registration — the process that determines whether a foreign phone keeps working on Turkish mobile networks or gets blocked after a set period. This is one of the more commonly misunderstood administrative requirements for expats and property owners settling into life in...
When carrying out real estate transactions, UInvest strives to take on all the inconvenience associated with paperwork in order to simplify the process for the buyer. To do this, our clients often provide us with a power of attorney to issue a certificate of ownership - TAPU. We pre-prepare the necessary documents for the power of attorney, which is executed by a Turkish notary in the presence...
Double taxation can be a problem for citizens living or having income in different countries. Turkey has a taxation system that may involve paying taxes both in Turkey itself and in the country of citizenship. Knowing whether a citizen will need to pay taxes in both countries depends on their tax status. If a citizen is a tax resident of Turkey, then he needs to pay tax on all his worldwide...
Crossing the Turkish border in a car with foreign plates is common: every year, hundreds of thousands of foreign-registered vehicles cross into Turkey by land — through Bulgaria and Greece in the northwest, through Georgia in the northeast, and increasingly via ferry connections that still require the same customs paperwork as a land crossing. For property owners who split their time between Europe and a...
The tax on the increase in value from a property sale is one of the least understood costs for foreign investors: buying property in Turkey is, in most respects, a straightforward process — but the tax obligations that come with ownership are often the part buyers understand least before signing, and the part that causes the most confusion afterward. From the one-time title deed transfer tax due at...
Polite phrases in Turkish are at the heart of Turkish hospitality, and a large part of that reputation runs through language. Turkish is built around an unusually rich set of everyday courtesies — phrases for entering a home, for eating together, for wishing someone well before they travel, for comforting a grieving neighbor — that do not map neatly onto English at all. For anyone spending real time in...
Foreigners can buy an apartment in Turkey in installments through off-plan plans, seller financing or bank loans. Contract rules, guarantees, BDDK loan ceilings, currency rules, citizenship and VAT, as of 17 October 2026.
In Turkey, both tourists and local residents are required to abide by the rules of the road, as violations can result in fines issued by the police. Fines for traffic violations in Turkey can be quite high and depend on the severity of the violation. One of the most common traffic violations is speeding in residential areas. Drivers who exceed the speed limit between 55 and 65 km/h can receive...
