Citizenship
Within the scope of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 901, we implement the procedures for requesting citizenship for foreigners wishing to obtain Turkish citizenship, and follow-up and end the citizenship process with our team specializing in this field, and we produce the necessary solutions to any legal problems that may occur.
Why Turkish citizenship?
There are many answers to this question, but we will only briefly cover a few issues.
First, to be a citizen of Turkey, but also very comfortable to travel to many countries of the world and take courses in these countries, intended to study and start working to open doors.
There is a world of free trade agreements with Turkey in many countries. This becomes an important advantage, especially in the field of import and export, without the need to impose taxes on certain products.
With Turkish citizenship, you also get access to a life intertwined with Europe. Turkey joins the European Union, and it is a very close country. Membership negotiations with the European Union have been going on for a long time, and it is believed recently that Turkey will join the European Union. If this membership occurs.
You can also have more comfortable operations in many regions of Turkey with Turkish citizenship and many steps that have been exempted. However, basic rights and freedoms, human rights, human respect, economic freedom, financial security and in many other areas can feel a priviledge to be a Turkish citizen.
How do you get Turkish citizenship?
There are many different situations in obtaining Turkish citizenship, and foreign citizens who provide any of these conditions can obtain Turkish citizenship if they meet the necessary conditions. Let’s examine these situations together.
Acquiring Turkish citizenship by birth
Turkish citizenship acquired by birth is obtained automatically on the basis of descent or place of birth. Nationality acquired by birth becomes valid from the moment of birth.
Nationality acquired on the basis of descent:
Descent acquired citizenship refers to the acquisition of the nationality of the Turkish mother or father to whom the child was born at the time of birth.
On acquiring Turkish citizenship by descent; It suffices that only one of the parents is a Turkish citizen at the time of birth, and the fact that the other is a foreign citizen does not prevent obtaining Turkish citizenship.
Acquiring Turkish citizenship by place of birth
Mother and father born in Turkey and a certain presence or absence or stateless national laws to win nationality from any governmental reasons for winning citizenship according to the child, from birth he acquires Turkish citizenship.
And it found that children in Turkey are considered their hometowns born in Turkey unless they prove outside Turkey. Children found unable to express themselves due to their young age are registered in the population registers of the place where they are located, based on records of law enforcement officers or relevant institutions indicating this situation or declaring the persons concerned.
Late Acquisition of Turkish Citizenship
Acquisition of Turkish Citizenship According to General Provisions
For foreigners who want to acquire Turkish citizenship in accordance with Article 11 of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901;
1. To have the power to discriminate adults according to his national law, if he is stateless, according to the Turkish Civil Code No. 4721.
2. He must have resided without interruption for a period of five years from the date of submitting the application in Turkey and onwards.
3. He decided to settle in Turkey. To obtain immovable real estate in Turkey, build a business, invest in, trade, transfer the business center in Turkey, and work at the site, under a work permit and reconfirm it with the same behavior, or marry a Turkish citizen or family to apply for Turkish citizenship with the oldest citizenship, Mother, father, brother, childbearing, or completion of training in Turkey.
4. Not to have a disease that poses a threat to public health.
5. To show that you have good morals by acting with a sense of responsibility that it takes to live together in the community, to give confidence to the environment in their behavior, so that you do not have bad habits that are not welcomed by the community and that conflict with the values society.
6. To be able to speak enough Turkish to adapt to social life.
7. Turkey will provide for itself a livelihood and no one will have to look at income or profession.
8. The absence of a situation that would constitute an obstacle to national security and public order.
Conditions sought.
Turkish citizenship by adoption
A minor foreign person who has been adopted by a Turkish citizen; He can obtain Turkish citizenship provided, it does not constitute an obstacle to national security and public order.
Acquiring Turkish citizenship for the citizens of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Those who are citizens of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus by birth and want to obtain Turkish citizenship, if they declare in writing that they want to be Turkish citizens, they will obtain Turkish citizenship by decision of the ministry.
He is a citizen of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and the acquisition of Turkish citizenship does not affect his wife, and the provisions of Article 20 of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901 are applied to his children.
For foreigners who subsequently acquired the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus citizenship, the provisions of Article 11 of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901 shall apply.
To obtain Turkish citizenship with the right to choose
People who lost our nationality because of their parents who lost Turkish citizenship by obtaining a permit to abandon, and who have submitted written notification to obtain Turkish citizenship within three years of the age of majority, can obtain Turkish citizenship by using the right of choice.
The loss of Turkish citizenship with the right to choose takes effect from the date of the Ministry’s decision regarding determining the conditions for exercising this right.
Exceptionally obtaining Turkish citizenship
Provided that it does not cause an obstacle in terms of national security,
1. Loss of Turkish citizenship by renouncing the license
2. Among the children who have lost Turkish citizenship because of their parents, who do not use their right to choose within three years after they become adults,
After losing Turkish citizenship according to clauses (a), (c), (d) and (e) of Article 25 of the repealed Turkish Nationality Law No. 403,
Regardless of the time the non-residents of Turkey are, they can re-obtain Turkish citizenship.
According to Article 13 of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901:
1. A state on the condition that the following persons are not an obstacle in terms of national security, regardless of the length of stay in Turkey, Turkish citizenship can be re-acquired by decision of the ministry.
• Whoever loses Turkish citizenship by obtaining a permit for assignment.
• Among those who lost their Turkish nationality because of their parents, those who did not use their right to vote during the period stipulated in Article 21.
According to Article 43 of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901:
1. 403 of the Turkish Citizenship Law, Article 25 (a), (d), (d) have been canceled and if they apply for people who have lost their Turkish nationality according to the sub-clauses, provided that no country is an obstacle in terms of national security, non-residence in Turkey, They can be returned to Turkish citizenship by a decision of the Council of Ministers without the condition of application.
Re-acquire Turkish citizenship without applying for residency
Millî güvenlik bakımından engel teşkil edecek bir hali bulunmamak şartıyla,
Çıkma izni almak suretiyle Türk vatandaşlığını kaybeden,
Ana veya babalarına bağlı olarak Türk vatandaşlığını kaybeden çocuklardan ergin olmalarından itibaren üç yıl içinde seçme hakkını kullanmayan,
Mülga 403 sayılı Türk Vatandaşlığı Kanununun 25 inci maddesinin (a), (ç), (d) ve (e) bentleri uyarınca Türk vatandaşlığını kaybetmiş,
kişiler Türkiye’de ikamet etme süresine bakılmaksızın, Türk vatandaşlığını yeniden kazanabilirler.
5901 sayılı Türk Vatandaşlığı Kanununun 13 üncü maddesi uyarınca:
Millî güvenlik bakımından engel teşkil edecek bir hali bulunmamak şartıyla aşağıda belirtilen kişiler Türkiye’de ikamet etme süresine bakılmaksızın, Türk vatandaşlığını Bakanlık kararıyla yeniden kazanabilirler.
Çıkma izni almak suretiyle Türk vatandaşlığını kaybedenler.
Ana veya babalarına bağlı olarak Türk vatandaşlığını kaybedenlerden 21 inci maddede öngörülen süre içerisinde seçme hakkını kullanmayanlar.
5901 sayılı Türk Vatandaşlığı Kanununun 43 üncü maddesi uyarınca:
Mülga 403 sayılı Türk Vatandaşlığı Kanununun 25 inci maddesinin (a), (ç), (d) ve e bentleri uyarınca Türk vatandaşlığını kaybetmiş olan kişiler başvurmaları halinde, millî güvenlik bakımından engel teşkil edecek bir hali bulunmamak kaydıyla, Türkiye’de ikamet etme şartı aranmaksızın Bakanlar Kurulu kararı ile yeniden Türk vatandaşlığına alınabilirler.
Restoration of Turkish citizenship based on residency status
According to Law No. 5901, Turkish citizenship caused the loss of these people by using the right to vote with those who lost their Turkish nationality, the state of absence will be an obstacle in terms of national security and are subject to three years of residency in Turkey, in which Turkey can re-acquire Turkish citizenship.
According to Article 14 of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901:
Article 29, according to Turkish citizenship, caused the loss of those who have it with the Council of Ministers, Article 34 according to a ministerial decision under the Turkish Nationality Law the losers, provided that the stay of absence for a period of three years in Turkey is an obstacle in terms of conditions for national security, re-acquisition of Turkish citizenship.
Obtaining Turkish citizenship through marriage
Marriage to a Turkish citizen does not directly obtain Turkish citizenship. Foreigners who have been married to a Turkish citizen for at least three years and whose marriage has lasted can apply for Turkish citizenship.
According to Article 16 of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901:
1. Marrying a Turkish citizen who does not acquire Turkish citizenship directly. However, foreigners who have been married to a Turkish citizen for at least three years and whose marriage has lasted can apply for Turkish citizenship. In the applicants;
Living in a family unit,
Not to engage in activity that conflicts with marriage,
Work on conditions that do not constitute an obstacle with regard to national security and public order. •
2. After submitting the application, if the marriage is terminated due to the death of the Turkish citizen husband, the condition in Clause (A) of the first paragraph is not required.
3. Foreigners who obtain Turkish citizenship through marriage, if it is decided to marry, they will retain Turkish citizenship if they have good intentions in marriage.
In the event that the marriage is terminated due to the death of the Turkish citizen husband after the date of submitting the application, the condition to live in a family union is not required.
• Foreigners who obtained Turkish citizenship through marriage, if it was decided to marry, they would retain Turkish citizenship if they had good intentions.
• In the event that a foreigner who acquired Turkish citizenship through marriage decides to marry, the question of whether he will retain Turkish citizenship is asked by the ministry through the governor.
As Şahin Group companies, regarding nationality transactions;
We manage all processes related to obtaining Turkish citizenship, provide a high-level legal guarantee on behalf of our clients and ensure that they obtain Turkish citizenship by taking the necessary steps in this regard.