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Planning to move to Türkiye or looking for a rental home? This 2025 guide covers housing types, the original guide's price examples, documents and checks before signing a lease. Editorial update — 8 October 2026: The rent ranges below are unverified examples from the original 2025 guide, not...

Long-term Residence in Türkiye: Requirements, Benefits and Applications Long-term residence in Türkiye (Uzun Dönem İkamet İzni) is an indefinite permit for people who meet its conditions. This is what ‘permanent residence’ means in this guide. It does not grant Turkish citizenship, require you...

Changing Residence Permit Types in Türkiye When your reason for staying in Türkiye changes, changing a category name in a form or waiting for a new card is not enough. Identify whether the original purpose has ended or another purpose has arisen alongside it, then choose a route whose...

Residence Permit Refusals in Türkiye: Reasons and Reapplying This 2025 guide discusses common problems with residence permit applications in Türkiye and what to check before trying again after a refusal. Correcting a document does not automatically allow immediate reapplication. Following a...

Türkiye Visas for Saudi and Gulf Citizens: Exemptions and Applications This 2025 guide covers travel to Türkiye for Gulf citizens: checking entry requirements, choosing an application route when a visa is needed, preparing documents and avoiding common mistakes. Ordinary passport holders from...

Tourist Residence Renewal in Türkiye: Timing and Documents This guide explains how to prepare a renewal application for a short-term residence permit for tourism in Türkiye: continuing to meet the purpose, applying on time, assembling evidence of your circumstances, and then submitting the...

Türkiye e-Visa: A Step-by-step Application Guide A Turkish e-Visa is an electronic visa document for an eligible tourism or business visit, obtained electronically after meeting the conditions and successfully completing the application and payment. This expands the guide originally published...

Türkiye Visas and Residence: Types, Requirements and Application Steps Start with your purpose, travel document and current status before choosing an application form. Short visits, residence and work follow different routes. What works for another person may not suit your nationality, passport...