Which Foreigner Citizen Is Buying Property In Turkey 2015

Which Foreigner Citizen Is Buying Property In Turkey 2015 - 2020

* Foreigners who completed House purchase in periods 2015 - 2020 have been taken into consideration.

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WHO BECAME INSTANT TURKISH CITIZEN WITH $1 MILLION REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT PROGRAM IN TURKEY?

According to the information obtained from the records of the Turkish Land registry and Cadastre Directorate, Iranians are the first among the foreign investors who acquired Turkish citizenship by purchasing real estate and housing.

During the 20-month period in which the right to Turkish citizenship applied at $ 1 million, a total 20 different countries 58 non-Turkish nationals obtained Turkish citizenship and Passport the most Iran with 11; 5 Yemen; 4 each Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Jordan; 3 each Palestine, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Saint Kitts; 1 each USA, China, Holland, Sweden, Canada, Poland.

WHO BECAME INSTANT TURKISH CITIZEN WITH USD 250.000 REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT PROGRAM IN TURKEY?

On September 19, 2018, the regulation was implemented and the minimum price for the purchase of real estate required for foreigners to obtain citizenship of the Republic of Turkey was reduced from $ 1 million to $ 250 thousand that requires to bond a condition not to sell the property for 3 years.

During the 5-month period in which the right to Turkish citizenship applied at $ 250.000 USD, a total 63 different countries 1.276 non-Turkish nationals obtained Turkish citizenship and Passport, the 1st place Iranian with 289, 2nd place Iraqi 195, 3rd place 157 Yemeni, Afghan with 123 people, Palestinian 85, Jordanian 84, Egyptian 45, Libyan 31, Pakistani 24, Azerbaijani with 22 people among them.

On the average daily 100 - 150 homes are sold to foreigners in Turkey, buying any value property for Turkish citizenship granted in 5 years.

TOP 20 NATIONALS WHO PURCHASED REAL ESTATE IN TURKEY 2020

Year	2020	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug
		11.864	3.945	4.048	3.075	796	870	1.679	2.772	3.932
1.	Iran	3808	678	691	465	157	209	389	540	640
2.	Iraq	3339	678	721	426	103	143	257	388	592
3.	Russia	1447	254	282	227	61	40	63	154	366
4.	Afghanistan	1111	204	256	184	54	48	60	149	156
5.	Azerbaijan	700	99	90	95	35	42	70	115	154
6.	Germany	686	133	108	87	13	15	53	143	134
7.	Yemen	610	142	131	113	30	21	70	70	66
8.	China	575	78	87	86	40	46	78	57	103
9.	Jordan	575	107	141	86	25	25	46	63	82
10.	Palestine	504	101	97	119	14	18	30	60	65
11.	United Kingdom	479	72	66	65	14	16	37	69	140
12.	Kuwait	470	121	79	65	6	75	19	36	137
13.	Kazakhstan	442	65	74	72	36	15	34	64	82
14.	Ukraine	442	56	76	78	8	25	30	93	76
15.	Saudi Arabia	435	110	109	84	15	11	23	32	51
16.	Egypt	407	82	93	49	10	23	40	40	70
17.	Lebanon	353	82	46	47	10	9	27	55	77
18.	Libya	349	78	76	87	10	12	27	22	37
19.	Turkmenistan	346	59	57	38	10	18	45	63	56
20.	Pakistan	271	55	50	42	1	3	10	34	76
	Other	3768	630	718	570	144	124	295	525	772

TOP 20 NATIONALS WHO PURCHASED REAL ESTATE IN TURKEY 2019

Year	2019	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
		45.967	3.200	3.357	3.150	3.768	3.967	2.717	4.241	3.641	4.217	4.331	4.037	5.351
1.	Iraq	7596	605	628	548	533	594	429	734	675	781	597	575	897
2.	Iran	5423	305	307	334	332	509	415	464	469	489	536	500	763
3.	Russia	2893	195	236	156	202	285	190	215	212	248	292	300	362
4.	Saudi Arabia	2208	108	153	189	395	157	102	218	146	214	168	174	194
5.	Afghanistan	2191	191	166	150	189	193	108	163	146	182	185	216	312
6.	Kuwait	1903	130	150	123	202	152	113	219	159	191	182	109	173
7.	Germany	1723	119	122	101	122	155	126	158	159	145	225	154	147
8.	Jordan	1596	151	125	101	149	144	89	139	105	151	121	156	154
9.	Yemen	1564	97	143	121	148	155	61	140	96	121	132	109	241
10.	United Kingdom	1353	76	70	74	94	149	155	61	140	96	121	132	106
11.	Azerbaijan	1191	95	105	98	98	90	67	92	88	118	125	91	146
12.	Palestine	1152	103	66	128	120	104	46	109	67	92	100	56	161
13.	Libya	1103	69	69	68	85	93	60	106	98	103	118	122	133
14.	Egypt	991	83	82	59	88	99	34	107	72	73	83	111	100
15.	Kazakhstan	776	30	45	37	73	71	60	58	59	68	80	91	104
16.	Sweden	754	52	51	38	42	55	53	96	119	69	71	53	55
17.	Qatar	721	73	65	51	79	64	37	46	53	70	53	59	71
18.	Ukraine	719	50	52	47	50	80	38	60	56	55	71	57	103
19.	United States	658	38	45	39	57	68	39	64	59	59	57	71	62
20.	Lebanon	650	45	61	62	49	57	43	69	39	662	56	47	60
	Other	8802	585	626	648	672	713	486	860	676	787	893	851	1007

TOP 20 NATIONALS WHO PURCHASED REAL ESTATE IN TURKEY 2018

Year	2018	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
		40.044	1.760	1.758	1.849	2.059	2.433	2.085	2.885	3.894	5.662	6.327	4.718	4.614
1.	Iraq	8205	272	308	348	337	407	315	584	944	1351	1439	1003	897
2.	Iran	3652	83	122	156	138	217	228	321	394	538	557	463	435
3.	Saudi Arabia	2718	160	178	181	252	206	110	211	275	312	332	233	268
4.	Russia	2297	121	128	120	112	165	169	177	192	263	336	261	257
5.	Kuwait	2199	108	99	79	116	114	90	171	271	36,	378	218	195
6.	Afghanistan	2084	124	118	108	99	131	139	143	183	227	319	261	232
7.	Germany	1866	89	53	78	97	123	102	109	177	299	341	203	195
8.	Jordan	1363	84	46	52	62	65	64	111	124	199	242	143	170
9.	Azerbaijan	1250	65	63	61	68	75	82	73	96	180	177	144	166
10.	United Kingdom	1237	55	48	52	57	112	88	94	97	193	217	128	96
11.	Yemen	851	50	30	32	39	52	60	63	66	95	113	105	146
12.	Qatar	764	40	28	41	37	50	35	40	84	136	107	85	81
13.	Egypt	725	62	45	41	44	38	38	70	90	64	75	69	86
14.	Sweden	723	38	29	34	35	48	42	54	65	115	102	85	76
15.	Palestine	655	32	21	23	29	44	29	43	58	73	93	115	95
16.	Ukraine	624	22	32	51	54	56	44	51	50	54	88	60	62
17.	Kazakhstan	542	40	28	28	29	28	55	38	57	79	73	60	47
18.	United States	468	10	15	22	22	26	13	29	40	58	86	70	77
19.	Netherlands	467	9	43	24	31	41	28	25	53	44	81	43	45
20.	Lebanon	456	8	11	12	16	25	22	23	38	67	92	77	65
	Other	6899	208	313	306	385	410	352	459	540	952	1079	892	923

TOP 20 NATIONALS WHO PURCHASED REAL ESTATE IN TURKEY 2017

Year	2017	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
		22.428	1.398	1.318	1.600	1.634	1.795	1.941	1.748	1.699	2.249	2.694	2.171	2.181
1.	Iraq	3805	279	282	323	245	277	239	248	317	383	344	405	418
2.	Saudi Arabia	3345	144	143	148	185	285	612	248	198	344	528	239	271
3.	Kuwait	1691	115	114	139	169	125	136	142	135	160	154	151	151
4.	Russia	1331	104	77	115	99	134	115	118	95	129	125	135	129
5.	Afghanistan	1076	107	81	112	81	70	73	71	81	75	120	105	102
6.	Azerbaijan	942	54	55	50	65	63	46	61	45	72	378	32	91
7.	United Kingdom	794	40	37	39	55	65	87	76	78	103	94	68	52
8.	Iran	792	42	42	54	33	68	62	74	49	84	85	81	118
9.	Germany	772	43	35	31	74	54	64	41	66	88	106	88	93
10.	Egypt	587	45	46	39	38	52	31	46	61	49	34	79	67
11.	Ukraine	505	41	35	35	31	48	42	36	37	41	60	58	41
12.	Jordan	483	33	24	36	38	32	17	32	52	41	75	59	44
13.	Sweden	406	24	14	20	36	48	33	40	30	46	43	38	34
14.	UAE	401	23	11	47	36	37	13	26	35	51	33	24	32
15.	Yemen	390	12	18	40	32	40	29	21	25	50	27	49	47
16.	Palestine	337	27	21	49	19	20	17	28	23	24	40	38	31
17.	Kazakhstan	334	19	16	58	25	17	35	32	18	63	20	31	30
18.	Qatar	305	18	19	14	13	21	9	22	31	33	47	41	37
19.	Norway	273	9	9	26	21	25	24	24	26	38	24	27	20
20.	Belgium	219	10	8	24	22	15	23	29	22	15	23	14	14
	Other	3638	253	231	231	317	299	234	288	275	371	401	378	359

TOP 20 NATIONALS WHO PURCHASED REAL ESTATE IN TURKEY 2016

Year	2016	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
		18.391	1.474	1.603	1.604	1.600	1.645	1.558	1.051	1.552	1.299	1.578	1793.	1.664
1.	Iraq	3036	308	365	344	376	193	214	153	267	230	257	285	244
2.	Saudi Arabia	1886	136	158	151	165	160	112	92	173	140	159	236	204
3.	Kuwait	1744	134	159	136	172	182	110	111	155	85	135	212	153
4.	Russia	1224	106	88	96	96	121	114	64	117	99	132	107	84
5.	Afghanistan	1205	49	45	62	65	85	102	71	58	84	94	63	94
6.	United Kingdom	827	49	45	62	65	85	102	71	58	84	94	63	49
7.	Germany	714	49	45	74	50	67	96	25	52	61	63	77	50
8.	Iran	664	45	52	53	66	52	55	49	50	42	71	81	45
9.	Azerbaijan	610	54	54	60	47	58	63	39	53	37	42	47	56
10.	Ukraine	484	31	25	39	24	57	56	36	40	42	46	46	42
11.	Sweden	417	29	25	38	35	39	35	31	41	36	39	42	27
12.	Kazakhstan	380	46	40	28	27	25	36	25	42	33	25	18	35
13.	Egypt	348	26	28	39	28	19	28	15	41	19	27	41	38
14.	Jordan	345	17	21	28	14	26	21	27	29	19	25	55	64
15.	Norway	296	26	22	23	28	31	26	16	24	27	28	33	12
16.	China	281	23	27	24	20	36	23	26	11	18	20	22	31
17.	Qatar	256	12	14	17	31	36	29	12	19	11	18	19	38
18.	Netherlands	217	21	23	15	32	17	13	7	14	18	19	12	26
19.	Belgium	198	12	8	28	13	7	17	20	30	20	12	12	19
20.	UAE	192	20	13	22	16	11	14	8	17	12	10	13	36
	Other	3067	226	245	279	280	297	287	171	214	204	267	280	317

TOP 20 NATIONALS WHO PURCHASED REAL ESTATE IN TURKEY 2015

Year	2015	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
		22.991	1.304	1.376	1.620	1.856	1.887	.2.273	2.049	2.058	1.785	2.249	2.130	2.294
1.	Iraq	4228	240	243	297	298	276	315	362	401	359	430	495	512
2.	Saudi Arabia	2704	112	997	187	190	276	325	233	271	204	325	226	258
3.	Kuwait	2130	124	144	168	187	216	214	147	225	160	142	193	209
4.	Russia	2036	157	143	138	196	222	238	195	155	115	191	136	150
5.	United Kingdom	1058	54	86	48	91	103	104	101	86	109	133	74	65
6.	Germany	869	66	52	40	79	73	67	84	71	67	76	84	108
7.	Azerbaijan	815	56	57	57	97	50	72	68	54	56	77	88	82
8.	Iran	744	44	43	60	53	52	85	77	58	67	62	64	79
9.	Afghanistan	656	20	33	33	50	37	36	40	58	56	75	98	120
10.	Ukraine	608	30	39	61	57	79	57	56	35	55	49	60	40
11.	Sweden	541	26	33	36	37	42	50	91	60	43	48	42	33
12.	Kazakhstan	540	44	35	52	41	46	38	54	58	34	46	83	39
13.	Norway	453	17	20	46	39	29	40	65	41	36	39	31	15
14.	Libya	427	28	31	53	39	42	40	39	40	25	29	25	36
15.	UAE	332	19	28	22	28	20	31	31	39	26	28	25	35
16.	Egypt	318	11	12	19	23	21	29	15	30	31	32	54	51
17.	Qatar	277	18	10	25	20	32	26	22	35	24	26	20	19
18.	China	271	20	10	24	20	19	17	15	25	23	20	24	54
19.	Jordan	243	14	15	14	19	21	12	20	29	26	25	18	30
20.	Yemen	231	10	14	15	24	28	21	12	23	23	24	15	22
	Other	3514	194	241	224	267	313	420	322	263	255	372	305	337

Source: Turkey General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (GDLRC)

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