Turkey Residency& Citizenship

Contact

This handbook is published by the residence and citizenship team at Bayraktar Attorneys in Istanbul. If you want your own position looked at rather than a general answer, that is where to write.

Direct

What to send

Answers worth having depend on facts, and the facts are almost always in documents. Where you can, include:

  • Your current status — permit category and expiry date, or the visa you entered on.
  • Your entry and exit history, if the question involves how long you have been here.
  • Any notification letter in full. The ground stated in it determines everything that follows.
  • Whether you have ever been refused, removed, banned, or told you have a restriction code.
  • For investment enquiries: what has already been bought or transferred, and when.
  • Which language you prefer — English, Turkish, Russian or Chinese.
If a deportation decision has been servedThe window to challenge it is seven days and it does not pause for a weekend. Write immediately with the decision attached; everything else can wait. See refusals and deportation.

What cannot be done by email

We cannot tell you whether an application will succeed without seeing the file. We cannot advise on your own country's nationality law — whether you may keep your existing citizenship after naturalising here is a question for that state. And we cannot intervene in a matter we do not act on.

Nothing sent through this page creates a lawyer–client relationship. One arises only when conflicts have been checked and instructions confirmed in writing.

Related reading

  1. About this handbookWho publishes this handbook, how it is organised, what it deliberately leaves to other sources, and the disclosed relationship with the law firm that operates it.
  2. Editorial standardsHow entries here are researched, written, reviewed and corrected: sourcing rules, moving regulatory figures, the review cycle and the correction policy.