🇹🇷Turkey

The applicant purchases qualifying Turkish real estate with a market value of at least $400K, demonstrated by an independent valuation. The property is held for a minimum three-year period; sale before three years voids the citizenship retroactively. After the three-year hold, the property can be sold without affecting citizenship status. We work with vetted Turkish real estate counsel to identify properties with both qualifying valuations and resaleable market characteriztics.

Underlying market value is recoverable through resale after the qualifying hold. The actual recovery depends on Turkish real estate market conditions, lira-USD exchange rates at sale, and the specific property's appreciation trajectory. Past clients have generally recovered between 70% and 110% of original USD outlay over the three-year hold, depending on entry timing and asset selection. We model the conservative case during the consult; we do not promise appreciation.

The Turkish passport currently grants visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to roughly 110 destinations, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and most of Latin America. Schengen and UK access requires a visa for Turkish nationals. The passport is materially weaker on Europe-direction mobility than European or Caribbean-CBI passports, but stronger on Asia and Latin America than most.

One visit is required to handle the property purchase, biometric enrollment, and oath. The visit can typically be compressed to a single week. After the citizenship is granted, no further presence is required to maintain it. The oath can be administered at a Turkish consulate in some cases if travel is impractical.

Spouse and dependent children under 18 are included under the principal investment with no per-dependent fee, plus disabled adult children regardless of age. Adult children over 18, dependent parents, and other relatives are not eligible under the standard CBI framework. This makes Turkey one of the most family-efficient CBI programs for nuclear families.

No. Turkey has permitted dual citizenship since 2009, and the United States permits dual citizenship as a matter of practice. You hold both passports indefinitely.

Law No. 7582, gazetted June 4, 2026, exempts new Turkish tax residents from Turkish tax on foreign-source income and capital gains for 20 years from the date of becoming resident. The qualification test is simple: no Turkish domicile or tax liability in the three calendar years before relocation (with a carve-out for those who paid Turkish tax on local rental income, securities income, or capital gains). The window also brings a 1% inheritance rate (versus progressive rates reaching 10%) on assets transferred on death during the period – lifetime gifts sit outside it. A separate asset-repatriation amnesty runs through July 31, 2027 with a 0-5% rate on declared cash, gold, foreign currency, and securities. The regime is materially longer than Europe's typical 10-to-15-year non-dom equivalents, and it pairs naturally with the CBI passport: naturalize, relocate, and shelter foreign income for two decades.

Turkey has had volatile macroeconomic conditions and an active political environment over the past decade, with lira depreciation and high inflation as recurring features. The CBI program itself has remained operational and policy-stable across multiple political cycles since the 2018 restructure, and Law No. 7582 (June 2026) materially strengthens the program's structural value by adding a 20-year foreign-income tax exemption alongside the passport. The recoverable-asset structure of the property route partially insulates against macro volatility relative to non-refundable donation programs. We monitor the program closely and brief active clients on any material movement.