About Easy Turkish Citizenship

What this site is

Easy Turkish Citizenship is an independent information resource for one specific subject: the Turkish Citizenship by Investment programme. We exist because the public information about this programme is broken in two characteristic ways. Multi-country “global citizenship” portals treat Türkiye as one page among forty and update it rarely. Property sellers publish citizenship content shaped by the inventory they need to move. We do one country, with no inventory of our own to sell.

The operating entity

This site is published by Viru Consulting W.L.L., part of the Viru Group. The full entity disclosure, contact channels and supervisory authorities sit on the imprint page. Where pages on the site reference legal advice, that advice is delivered by independently regulated lawyers, on their letterhead, under their own indemnity cover. Our role is editorial and coordinating; theirs is legal.

We do not publish individual names of staff, lawyers or contributors on the open web. Counterparties running due diligence (journalists, regulators, corporate clients) get full credentials and signed engagement letters from etc [at] virugroup [dot] company under cover of signed correspondence. Two reasons for the choice: a published bar number gets copied by impostor sites within days, and a named-editor cult is exactly the kind of authority signal AI-generated competitor sites mimic best.

How we keep information accurate

Six rules govern every page on this site.

Quarterly review cycle. Every page carries a visible “Last updated” date. Every figure (thresholds, fees, visa-free counts, market statistics, government processing times) is re-verified at least quarterly. Pages that contain figures changed by a presidential decree, regulator notice or banking circular are updated within the week of the change, not the quarter.

Primary sources first. Where the underlying source is a Turkish official body — Resmî Gazete, TKGM, Göç İdaresi, the Capital Markets Board, the BDDK, TurkStat, invest.gov.tr — we cite the official source and link it. Secondary sources (industry press, law firm bulletins, professional services brochures) appear only where they add specific verifiable detail beyond the primary source.

Lawyer review. Pages covering programme rules are reviewed by a Turkish lawyer registered with the Türkiye Barolar Birliği before publication. The reviewing practice is named to clients at the point of engagement, not on the public marketing page.

Independent of inventory. We do not own, market or take commissions on property, fund subscriptions or banking products. Where a page recommends a category of investment, the recommendation would be the same if no money were attached to it, including the answer “this route doesn’t fit you” when that is the correct one.

Corrections policy. When we get something wrong, we fix the page within one working day of being told. Material corrections receive a dated note at the bottom of the affected page. Email etc [at] virugroup [dot] company; we read every one.

A public change log. Significant regulatory shifts are covered in our news section the week they happen, with the source citation attached. We do not quietly edit pages when rules change; we mark what changed and when.

Editorial standards

This is a YMYL niche (Your Money, Your Life). The standards are not negotiable.

• We do not publish unverified figures.
• We do not republish numbers from other sites without checking the underlying source.
• We do not use AI-generated content as the authored layer of the site. Tools are tools; the voice is the editor’s.
• We do not pay for, or accept payment for, backlinks, sponsored content or paid placement.
• We disclose service relationships with named law firms, banks or funds at the point where a page mentions them.

Who works on this site

Five roles do the editorial and review work. We describe them by function rather than by name, for the reasons set out above.

Editor. Long-form investment-migration background on the buyer-adviser side, four years at a Gulf consultancy across Turkish, Caribbean and Maltese files, then immigration team at a London corporate practice. Owns every page on the site, decides what gets published, and signs off the quarterly review.

Turkish legal review. Registered with the Istanbul Bar Association since 2009. Practice covers investment migration, real estate transactions for foreign buyers and fund structuring. Every programme-rules page passes through this review before publication; nothing involving the Resmî Gazete goes live without a sign-off.

Property and markets. CMB-registered valuer based in Istanbul, fourteen years in valuation, deep on mahalle-level pricing in the European-side new-build segment. The person we ask “will the appraisal clear $400,000?” before a client signs.

Source of funds and intermediary banking. Nine years in Gulf-based compliance consultancy, independent since 2023. Quiet by choice; the work is in private memos, not open-web bibliography.

Cross-border tax. London-based chartered tax adviser, twenty years on individual cross-border tax with a Mediterranean property focus. The reason our tax page draws the residency-not-citizenship distinction the way it does.

What we are not

We are not a government agency and have no affiliation with the Republic of Türkiye. This site provides general information; it is not legal, tax or investment advice. Your specific situation requires advice from a licensed professional, and we say so on every page where it matters.

We are not the cheapest service provider in this space. There are firms that will run a Turkish citizenship file for less than we charge. We are not the most expensive either. The middle of that range, in our view, is where the file gets done correctly the first time, with the documentation done correctly the first time, and where the work of the next thirty years (returns of stale documents, replacement passports, renewals, advice to grown-up children) does not disappear behind a closed shopfront.

Our published fees are on the fees page.

Contact

Press, corrections, partnership questions, or a rule change we haven’t covered: write to the relevant address on the imprint page. Reader questions about your own situation: please use the eligibility check. That is how we triage and reply.