All entries
Eighteen entries covering residence and nationality under Turkish law, grouped the way the subject is actually used. Each states its statutory basis and the date it was last reviewed.
Start here
The four comparison entries. Read the one that matches your question before going deeper.
- OverviewTurkish residence permit types comparedAll six categories under Law No. 6458 plus the work permit, side by side: conditions, duration, renewal and how each counts toward naturalisation.
- OverviewApplying: e-ikamet, appointment, decisionThe administrative machinery end to end — online filing, the appointment, deficiency notices, fees, the card, and what your status is while it is pending.
- OverviewEvery route to Turkish citizenship, comparedBirth, descent, marriage, five years' residence, investment and reacquisition — what each requires, how long it takes and which is realistically open to you.
- OverviewRefusals, restriction codes, entry bans and deportationThe hardest part of the field: reading the ground given, understanding tahdit kodu, and the seven-day window that applies to deportation and nothing else.
Permit categories in detail
One entry per category, with its statutory conditions, duration, renewal rules and how the time counts toward naturalisation.
- PermitThe short-term residence permit (Article 31)Not one permit but a list of grounds — and the ground you choose decides the evidence, the refusal risk and whether the time counts in full.
- PermitResidence through property ownershipThe most durable short-term ground — but only where the property itself qualifies, which is a title and zoning question, not a price question.
- PermitThe family residence permit (Article 34)Up to three years, conditions on the sponsor rather than the applicant, and the widest coverage of any category — spouses, minor children and dependants.
- PermitThe student residence permit (Article 38)Straightforward to obtain, limited in what it allows, and counted at half rate toward naturalisation — which is the part that matters years later.
- PermitThe work permit as a residence permitApplied for by the employer, tied to the employer, and the fastest way to accumulate qualifying residence — provided it never lapses.
- PermitThe long-term residence permit (Article 42)Indefinite, granted after eight uninterrupted years, and the right destination for anyone who wants to stay without pursuing nationality.
- PermitThe humanitarian residence permit (Article 46)Discretionary, up to a year at a time, and issued where the ordinary categories cannot hold the situation — not a planning tool.
Keeping status
The administrative machinery: filing, renewal windows, address registration and the gaps that quietly break continuity.
Citizenship
The routes this handbook covers in full — investment, birth and descent, and the position of former citizens.
- CitizenshipCitizenship by investmentThe qualifying instruments, the holding periods and the documents that actually decide the file — set by regulation, not by statute, which is why they move.
- CitizenshipThe property rules for investment citizenshipValuation report, currency conversion certificate, the three-year annotation, restricted zones and the anti-recycling rules — where the property route actually fails.
- CitizenshipExceptional citizenship and the Turquoise CardArticle 12 is wider than the investment programme — extraordinary contribution, recognised immigrants and Turquoise Card holders all sit inside it.
- CitizenshipCitizenship by birth and descentA child of a Turkish parent is Turkish from birth, wherever born — which answers most family questions before they are asked.
- CitizenshipRenunciation, the Blue Card and reacquisitionWhat former Turkish citizens keep, what they lose, and how the status is recovered — including the conscription question that surprises Blue Card families.
- CitizenshipDual nationality, notification and military serviceTürkiye permits it and requires you to declare it — and for male citizens it brings a service obligation that has to be planned, not discovered.
Reading order, if you are starting cold
Permit types → the entry that matches you → applying → renewal. Leave the citizenship entries until your residence position is settled; almost nothing on that side matters until it is.