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Turkish Citizenship by InvestmentAn annotated reference to the law, the procedure and the practitioners
The programme rests on one clause of one statute and one article of one regulation. The clause creates a discretionary power and names no figure; the article carries every threshold, every holding period and the conversion requirement. Everything else is tax, fees, residence and legalisation.
That division matters in practice. Because the figures sit in secondary legislation, they move by decision rather than by legislation, and a practitioner reading only the Law will not find a single number that governs a file.
Regulation 2010/139 art. 20
The central article. Seven sub-paragraphs, seven routes, with the threshold, the holding period and the certifying authority for each, plus what the article does not do.
Presidential Decision No. 5072
The 2022 change that moved no threshold and so went largely unreported, but which transferred three years of lira exposure onto the investor.
BKK 2016/9601 to CBK 5554
The chronology, and why it is operational rather than historical: the figure that governs a file is the one in force on the date of the acquisition.
VAT Law art. 13(1)(i), Law No. 7394
Extended from one year to three in 2022, and still published as one year across much of the market. The one error on this subject with a directly calculable price.
Law No. 6458 art. 31(1)(j)
Why a programme with no residence requirement runs through a residence permit, why it is granted on the certificate of conformity and so cannot come first, and how the investor ground differs from the property-owner, business and tourism grounds.
Law No. 5901 arts. 31, 33 and 40
Two powers constantly treated as one. Annulment under art. 31 turns on the applicant’s own false declaration; withdrawal under art. 40 turns on the conditions never having been met and asks nothing about fault, which is where an investor with an inflated valuation is actually exposed.
Hague Convention of 5 October 1961
The complete Hague 1961 status table, 130 Contracting Parties with the date the Convention entered into force for each, the consular chain for non-parties, and the acceded-but-not-yet-in-force case a yes-or-no field gets wrong.
Every statute, regulation and amending instrument this site relies on, with its Resmî Gazete date and issue and how far we got in confirming it. "Official text located" means we read the instrument. "Official reference located" means we read the consolidated text and found the reference but not the instrument as published, which is a weaker claim and is recorded as one.
| Instrument | No. | Resmî Gazete | Type | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkish Citizenship LawTürk Vatandaşlığı Kanunu | 5901 | 12 June 2009No. 27256 | Statute | arts. 12(1)(b), 31, 33, 40, 46 |
| Regulation on the Implementation of the Turkish Citizenship LawTürk Vatandaşlığı Kanununun Uygulanmasına İlişkin Yönetmelik | 2010/139 | 6 April 2010No. 27544 | Regulation | arts. 20 |
| Amendment introducing the investor route into the implementing Regulation | 2016/9601 | 12 January 2017No. 29946 | Amending instrument | Introduced the investor route. Real estate threshold USD 1,000,000; bank deposit threshold |
| Amendment to the investor route criteria | 2017/10008 | 5 May 2017No. 30057 | Amending instrument | Amended the investor route criteria. |
| Presidential Decree No. 106 | 106 | 19 September 2018No. 30540 | Amending instrument | Cut the thresholds: real estate to USD 250,000, bank deposit, government bonds and investm |
| Presidential Decision No. 5554 | 5554 | 13 May 2022No. 31834 | Amending instrument | Raised the real estate threshold from USD 250,000 to USD 400,000, in force one month after |
| Fees LawHarçlar Kanunu | 492 | 17 July 1964No. 11756 | Statute | arts. 57 and Tariff No. 4, 63 |
| Value Added Tax LawKatma Değer Vergisi Kanunu | 3065 | 2 November 1984No. 18563 | Statute | arts. 13(i) |
| Capital Markets LawSermaye Piyasası Kanunu | 6362 | 30 December 2012No. 28513 | Statute | |
| Law on Foreigners and International ProtectionYabancılar ve Uluslararası Koruma Kanunu | 6458 | 11 April 2013No. 28615 | Statute | |
| Disaster Insurance LawAfet Sigortaları Kanunu | 6305 | 18 August 2012No. 28388 | Statute | |
| Amendment requiring qualifying deposits and instruments to be converted into Turkish lira | 5072 | 6 January 2022No. 31711 | Amending instrument | arts. 20(10) |
| Law amending the Law on the Taxation of Certain Assets and certain other laws | 7394 | 15 April 2022No. 31810 | Statute | arts. 13(1)(i) |
| Code of Administrative Procedureİdari Yargılama Usulü Kanunu | 2577 | 20 January 1982No. 17580 | Statute | arts. general |
The register is published as data: sources.json, CC BY 4.0, with the verification status and last-checked date for every entry.
A page on the fee tariffs under Law No. 492 is in preparation. Beyond that, the honest gaps are not missing pages but unfinished verification: four instruments are relied on in prose without register entries because their Resmî Gazete details could not be confirmed against an official text, and the forum and time limit for challenging an annulment are not yet stated. Both are recorded asopen questionsrather than answered from memory.
If you practise in this area and something here is wrong, or an instrument is missing, write to the editor. Corrections are published with the date they were made.