Turkish Citizenship by Investment

Turkish citizenship by investment is a statutory route, not a discretionary one: an applicant who meets the qualifying threshold and holds the investment for the required period applies through the Presidency of Migration Management and the Land Registry, and the file is assessed against fixed criteria. What makes these files fail is almost never the money. It is documentation — a valuation report that does not meet the required standard, a currency conversion that was never routed through the central bank as the rules demand, or a title annotation that was registered incorrectly or not at all.

For foreign applicants the practical questions are usually four. Which route fits: property, bank deposit, or fund participation. What the holding period actually obliges you to do, and what happens if you sell early. Whether spouse and children under eighteen are included in the same file. And how citizenship interacts with your existing nationality, tax residence and military-service position.

The guides below set out how each route works in practice and where files stall. If you are weighing citizenship against simply living in Türkiye lawfully, read the residence permit and immigration material first — for many people a residence permit answers the real need at a fraction of the cost. For the commercial side of an investment, see real estate and property law.