Turkish citizenship · Costs
This page helps you estimate what a Turkish citizenship application will cost in your own situation, then explains where each figure comes from. In the calculator, choose your path and enter the number of applicants. If you are applying through investment in real estate, add the number of properties and the price of each one.
The breakdown lists each cost on its own line and shows what drives it: the number of people, the number of properties, or the price you pay. The result is an average indicator for planning, not a quote. It shows a line for legal fees but no figure, because those are quoted per file, as explained below.
Figures last checked: 17 September 2026
The cost of Turkish citizenship is not a single fee. It is a set of separate charges, each set by a different authority or professional and each calculated on a different basis. Some are fixed amounts per person, some are charged once for every property, some once per file, and one is a percentage of the price you pay. Four facts about your file decide which of them apply and how large they are.
Turkish law provides several routes to citizenship, and each carries a different set of costs. Citizenship by investment through real estate is covered here in the most detail, because it adds charges the other routes do not have: title deed duty, a valuation report and a land registry charge for each property, and residence permit fees for everyone on the file. Citizenship by marriage and citizenship by naturalization, after a period of legal residence, involve fewer costs: the application service fee and document costs. Citizenship by descent carries the same two items.
Who qualifies for each path, and how each process runs, is covered on the Turkish citizenship lawyer page and the path pages linked from it. This page deals only with cost.
Several charges are counted per person. The citizenship application service fee is paid for every applicant on every path: USD 3 on the investment path and USD 20 on the marriage, naturalization and descent paths. It is charged by the Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs for handling the application. It is a public service fee, not the firm's fee.
On the investment path, each person on the file also pays residence permit fees. In an investment application, your spouse and your children under 18 can normally be included in the same file, and each of them adds those per-person charges. The investment itself is not multiplied: one qualifying purchase covers the family members included in the same application, so adding a child adds per-person charges but does not raise the minimum you have to invest. Translation and notary costs, by contrast, are estimated once per file. Enter everyone who will be named on the application, including yourself.
Turkish law offers several forms of investment for citizenship: real estate, a bank deposit, a fixed capital investment, job creation, government bonds and investment fund shares. The calculator covers real estate, the route most investment applicants use. The other routes are described briefly further down this page, and their costs are quoted per file.
The investment amount is a threshold you must meet. The costs on this page are added on top of it, not drawn from it.
The price you pay for a property is not a fee. It is the minimum you must reach, and the property stays yours. The calculator still shows the price on its own line and in the US dollar total, because it is money you pay in Türkiye during the transaction, and the costs come on top of it.
For real estate the minimum is USD 400,000, measured on the total of the prices you enter. If that total is below USD 400,000, the calculator tells you the application would not be eligible on that basis. It still shows the costs.
You can reach the real estate minimum with one property or with several, and the calculator asks for the price of each one. Title deed duty is calculated separately for each property as a percentage of its price, so spreading the same total across several properties does not change the total duty. The land registry charge and the valuation report are fixed amounts per property, so they rise with every property you add.
Fixed-amount fees in Türkiye are updated at the start of each year. Document costs depend on your records, and some charges vary with a property's city or type. The calculator gives you average indicators built from the figures in force when this page was last checked.
Most fees are paid in Turkish lira in Türkiye. The calculator and this page show them in US dollars as an indicator, so that you can compare them with the property price.
Below, each path is broken down into the charges it carries: what each charge is, what it is based on, and when it falls due. Items that appear on every path come first.
Citizenship application service fee. A public fee charged by the Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs for processing the citizenship application. It is not a fee of the firm. Each applicant pays it: USD 3 per applicant on the investment path and USD 20 per applicant on the marriage, naturalization and descent paths.
Translation and notary. Foreign documents, such as birth certificates, marriage certificates and criminal record certificates, must be apostilled or legalised in the country that issued them. In Türkiye they are then translated by a sworn translator and the translation is certified by a notary. The calculator uses an average of USD 617 per file on the investment path and USD 411 per file on the marriage, naturalization and descent paths. These are average indicators: the actual cost depends on the documents your own situation requires and on what the issuing country charges.
Legal fees. Every path shows a line for legal fees without a figure. They are quoted per file, because the work differs from case to case. Section 04 below explains how they are set.
Identity card and passport. Once citizenship is granted, each new citizen applies for a Turkish identity card and, if wanted, a Turkish passport. Both fees fall due after the decision, so they are not in the calculator.
Most investment applicants use this route. Buying property for citizenship carries the charges below on top of the purchase price and the application service fee of USD 3 per applicant. The minimum investment is USD 400,000, which can be reached with one property or several.
Title deed duty (tapu harcı). A state duty on the transfer of title, calculated at 4% of the sale price of each property. The Fees Law charges it to buyer and seller in equal shares. The calculator counts the full 4%, because the sale agreement often places the whole duty on the buyer; check that clause before you sign. The price declared at the land registry should match the price you actually pay.
Land registry and revolving fund charge (döner sermaye). A charge collected for each title transaction, separate from the title deed duty. The calculator uses USD 144 per property. The amount varies with the city where the property is located.
Valuation report. Each property needs a valuation report prepared by an appraiser licensed by the Capital Markets Board. The calculator uses USD 617 per property, so two properties mean USD 1,234. The fee varies with the type of property.
Residence permit fees. Investment applicants obtain a residence permit as part of the process. The calculator uses USD 309 per person. The amount varies with the permit duration requested, the way you entered Türkiye and your nationality; the residence permit fees calculator works it out for your own case.
Currency conversion. For a citizenship purchase, the price is paid through a Turkish bank from foreign currency converted to lira, and the bank issues a certificate showing the conversion.
Once the purchase is registered, you apply for a certificate of eligibility, the document confirming that the investment meets the conditions. Value added tax may apply to a newly built property, depending on the property and the sale; it is not part of the calculator and should be checked for the specific purchase before you commit.
A bank deposit, a fixed capital investment, job creation, government bonds and investment fund shares are also routes to citizenship by investment. They are not in the calculator. Their costs come mainly from documentation and from the institution holding the investment rather than from a land registry transaction, so there is no title deed duty, land registry charge or valuation report, and the costs are quoted per file. Keeping a deposit in a Turkish bank is covered on its own page.
Marriage to a Turkish citizen involves no investment and no registry charges. The calculator shows the application service fee of USD 20 for each applicant, paid to the Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs, and the translation and notary average of USD 411 for the file. Your Turkish spouse is already a citizen and pays nothing on this application, so enter only the people who are actually applying.
Citizenship by naturalization, after a period of legal residence in Türkiye, follows the same pattern as marriage: the directorate's application service fee of USD 20 per applicant and a translation and notary average of USD 411. Residence permit fees from the qualifying years are already paid and are not added again.
Citizenship by descent concerns people with a Turkish mother or father whose citizenship was never registered. It is handled as a registration of an existing right rather than as an application for a new one, and the costs are mainly documents: birth records, proof of the parent's citizenship, translations and certifications. The calculator applies the directorate's application service fee of USD 20 per applicant and a translation and notary average of USD 411. Where parentage first has to be established by a court, court costs apply; they depend on the case and are not estimated here.
Both examples use the figures in the calculator, so you can check a result against them.
Investment: two properties, three applicants. You buy two properties for USD 250,000 and USD 180,000, a total of USD 430,000, which meets the USD 400,000 minimum, and you apply with your spouse and one child. Title deed duty is 4% of each price: USD 10,000 and USD 7,200, so USD 17,200 in total. The land registry and revolving fund charge comes to USD 288 for the two properties, the valuation reports to USD 1,234, the residence permit fees to USD 927 for three people, the application service fee to USD 9 for three people, and translation and notary to USD 617. These fees come to USD 3,075, so the estimated total is USD 450,275, with legal fees quoted separately.
Marriage: one applicant. The application service fee is USD 20 and the translation and notary average is USD 411, a total of USD 431, with legal fees quoted separately.
A summary of the items above, and what drives each one:
The calculator estimates third-party and statutory costs: the charges set by the state, the land registry and outside professionals, together with the price of the property you buy. Several costs sit outside it, either because they are agreed privately or because they depend on facts a calculator cannot know.
What the calculator estimates
What it does not include
Not included in this calculator: a figure for the firm's own consultation and retainer fee. The calculator shows a legal fees line, but it does not put an amount on it. The fee does not depend on your path or your number of applicants; it depends on what your file involves, so it cannot be estimated the same way.
Whether a first consultation is charged depends on what it involves. If there is a fee, you are told the amount before the appointment, and nothing is charged without your agreement. Fees are set with reference to the Attorneyship Minimum Fee Tariff (Avukatlık Asgari Ücret Tarifesi), published each year by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations.
No. It is an average indicator to help you plan. It is built from the fee amounts in force when this page was last checked and from average costs for documents and reports. The exact figure for your own file depends on your documents, the city and type of any property, and the amounts in force on the day you pay, and it is confirmed once you speak with the firm.
Legal fees depend on the scope of your file rather than on your path or your number of applicants, so they are quoted per file. Whether a first consultation is charged depends on what it involves. If there is a fee, you are told the amount before the appointment, and it is set with reference to the Attorneyship Minimum Fee Tariff published each year by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations.
No. The calculator is a planning tool, not an offer or a quote. The charges it estimates are set by public authorities and outside professionals, not by the firm, and they can change between the day you use the calculator and the day you pay. A figure you can rely on for your own file is given once the file has been reviewed.
No. The USD 400,000 minimum has to be met by the purchase price itself. The title deed duty, the land registry and revolving fund charge, the valuation report, any value added tax and any agent commission are paid in addition to the price and do not count toward the minimum.
The costs follow the property. A valuation report prepared for a property you then do not buy is not recovered, and the property you buy instead needs its own valuation report, title deed duty and land registry charge. If you add a property to reach the minimum, the per-property charges apply again for that property. Run the calculator again with the new prices to see the difference, and raise the change with your lawyer before you commit money.
The calculator gives you a planning figure. The exact cost depends on your documents, the properties you choose and the amounts in force when you pay. To have those checked against your own situation, request a consultation for the exact figure on your file. Whether that consultation is charged, and the amount if it is, is stated before the appointment.
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