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Most purchase risk in this market is title risk, and most title risk is legible in advance — if you know what the Turkish land registry records and what each title regime means. A working guide for foreign buyers.
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Istanbul is not one market. It is a set of district markets with different stock, different buyer profiles and different risks — and the useful first decision is not which apartment, but which kind of district logic fits your objective.
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From reservation to title deed, the Turkish purchase process is more formal than most foreign buyers expect — and that formality protects you, if you use it. Here is the sequence, what happens at each step, and where the checks belong.
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The purchase price is one number. The transaction adds several more — statutory, official and professional — and buyers on the citizenship route must budget them separately, because none of them counts toward the statutory threshold.
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On 4 August 2026 the Ministry of Interior announced that the citizenship decisions of 6,134 people had been annulled or withdrawn. Those are two different legal acts with two different meanings, and the English-language coverage has merged them.
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Since March 2024 the valuation report for a citizenship-route purchase can be drawn by one designated company only, and no party to the transaction chooses it. This is what that changes, and what it does not.
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One decree, one change. Since 12 December 2023 the property must have kat mülkiyeti or kat irtifakı established, or be arsa-classified land with a building on it. The amount did not move.
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