Military service and Turkish citizenship
The question we are asked more than any other. Article 43 of Law No. 7179 deems a man of twenty-two or over at naturalisation to have served. Your sons are the part that needs planning, and here is how.
Read → RiskIs Türkiye safe? Four questions, four answers
Personal security, earthquakes, political stability and the lira are different questions and deserve separate answers. Including the risk we treat most seriously and the marketing around it we think is worst.
Read → CitizenshipFourteen things people get wrong
Schengen access, the real all-in cost, whether the valuation matters, who counts as family, and why eleven of the fourteen errors happen to make the programme sound better than it is.
Read → FamilyYour family: who is covered, and who is not
One investment covers a spouse and children under eighteen — and nobody else. What happens to a child who turns eighteen mid-application, and what the citizenship means for grandchildren not yet born.
Read → Living in TürkiyeLiving in Istanbul: the first year
Schools, hospitals, banking, traffic and what a foreign family actually notices. Plus the one fact about distance in this city that should decide where you buy.
Read → CitizenshipSource of funds: what the Ministry actually tests
A clean bank statement proves the balance exists. It proves nothing about where it came from — and that distinction is where applications fail. How each origin of wealth is evidenced, and the six gaps that recur.
Read → ComparisonTürkiye against Greece, Portugal, Malta and the Caribbean
We act on Turkish files, so read it accordingly. It also sets out the five situations in which we would tell you to look somewhere else — including the one we say most often.
Read → PropertyWhere to buy in Istanbul, and why
Thirty-nine districts, roughly six worth a foreign investor's attention. Who lives there, who rents, how liquid the exit is, and the areas we steer clients away from.
Read → CitizenshipChoosing the right property for a citizenship purchase
Two filters, applied in order. Does it qualify — and is it a property worth owning for three years and selling at the end? A unit can pass the first and fail the second badly.
Read → Investment routesCitizenship through a gold fund
How the USD 500,000 fund route works mechanically, where the capital risk actually sits, the currency question nobody answers, and when we would tell you to use the deposit route instead.
Read → PropertyRental guarantees: real one or marketing line?
A guarantee is worth exactly the financial standing of whoever gives it. How to test whether the premium you are paying is quietly funding your own guaranteed income.
Read → Company formationSetting up a company in Türkiye as a foreigner
Limited or joint stock, and why that choice matters more than anyone tells you. Plus the reason the bank account, not the registry, sets your timetable.
Read → Investment routesCitizenship through the private pension system
The least used of the six routes. How the BES contribution is held, the withholding question that decides whether it makes sense, and the three profiles it genuinely suits.
Read → Estate planningInheritance and Turkish property
Your home-country will does not govern your Istanbul apartment. What actually happens, what the family has to do, and the short document that prevents most of it.
Read → MobilityThe Turkish passport, honestly assessed
We do not publish a country count. Where the passport is genuinely strong, where it is not, and the one treaty position almost nobody mentions.
Read → CitizenshipThe routes that cost nothing
Descent, birth, marriage, residence and recovery. A surprising number of people who ask us about the investment programme already have a claim.
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Next step
Tell us your nationality and what the account is for.
Those two answers decide which bank to approach and how the application should be presented. We will tell you what is realistic for your profile before you arrange anything at a consulate.
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