Turkish citizenship through property: how the route works

Most of what is written about this route online is written by people selling it. This page is written by the firm that would build the house, which means there is a great deal it cannot tell you — and saying which parts those are is the useful thing we can do.

What the route actually is

It is not a purchase of citizenship. It is a property purchase that, if the property is valued above a threshold the state sets, opens the right to apply. The application is assessed by the Turkish state on its own terms, and nobody selling property can promise its outcome.

Three steps, in this order

1. Buy above the threshold

The figure that matters is not the price on your contract. An official valuation report sets the property’s value, and that report is what the application is measured against. A contract price above the threshold does not help if the valuation lands below it.

2. The deed is annotated

A note goes onto the title deed: the property may not be sold for three years. The deed is yours, the property is yours, and the restriction is on selling it — it exists so the route cannot be used as a three-month trade.

3. Apply

With the certificate of conformity issued after the valuation and transfer, the application is made to the Provincial Directorate of Population and Citizenship. From that point the process belongs entirely to the state.

What we do not do

Vural Construction is not an immigration adviser and does not act as one. We do not file applications, we do not represent applicants, and we do not have a relationship with the directorate that decides them. What we do is build, and tell you honestly whether a property is likely to be relevant to this route at all.

Why there is no figure on this page

The threshold has moved once already, in June 2022, and it will move again before this page is next touched. A number printed on a construction company’s website is the first thing to go stale, and a reader who acts on a figure that changed last month is worse off than a reader we sent to the ministry.

So the sources below are the state’s own, and they are the ones to read before committing to anything. The Investment Office’s guide is the closest thing to a single official document on the subject; the other two are the directorates that actually run the deed transfer and the citizenship application.