Thank you for the info 🙏 I was about to move there and you opened my eyes

I absolutely understand you both. My husband and I have only been here for a year, but the constantly changing rules and prices around here have us considering going elsewhere. I don't understand how they plan to attract investors when even people like us with american passports who can go wherever we want decide it's not worth the trouble.

Sorry for all the bad experiences anyone had in our country. I wish you guys will find what you are looking for as soon as possible. Until next time, hopefully we will fix our problems.

Hi sorry to say but some of the information is false, if you all ready had residence visa renewal was no problem unless you moved, about banks I never have seen or heard anything like that I have been living here for 5 years from Canada.

Kafka's novels are pretty much about Turkey.

To cut it short, you can buy a 75,000 USD flat and get 2 years full residency to be extended normally after expiration. Easy.

Come to dubai and qatar A lot of Eastern Europeans live here

❤ nice report

We had the same story. Whee are you now?

Buy a villa problems are slowed 😍

well i lived in turkey for 3 years and i hated it, my experience was worse than yours

Hi both sorry to hear your plight from Turkey.It amounts to poor governance Bad governance And Ugly governance. After Erdoğan things have changed completely. They group countries like Russia India China and Brazil as BRIK countries.Now it is BRIKT. Hope things change.

One more thing, they don't like critics. They are like kids.

why would you people go to a country like Turkey, in the first place?

My wife and I bought two properties last year, with the full intention of retiring here from Canada. I really love the people and country and feel a great deal of regret to have to say this, but I would warn anyone to think really hard before putting their hard-earned money down. After several failed attempts to get our Ikamets with the help of the very large company we bought from, my wife was able to get hers albeit after paying a 'Lawyer' $1500US, while I was turned down 5 times with new document requirements each time, I applied even after paying another lawyer $1000US (she promised to refund the money if she failed... guess what... she asked for another $1000US to get the Marriage Certificate Apostille!). As someone who studied law in Canada, I can say that the Lawyers here are little more than Paralegals who demand money upfront and then make excuses when they fail. Since last year, the price of everything has doubled and continues to rise on a daily basis. This month, every government fee and tax has also doubled! For example, it now costs 20,000TL to register a foreign mobile phone (up from around 2200 TL last year and then over 6000TL in January! In order to get my Ikamet now, I am told to pay 10,000 - 12,000TL for Property Assessment Reports (5000-6000TL each because our Tapu is from last year!) On top of this, I must get my Canadian Marriage Certificate and Passport translated into Turkish around 2500TL each. This after having to return to Canada, get an official Marriage Certificate, and then pay $500 to have it Apostilized by the Canadian and Turkish governments! I have paid over 5000TL just in taxi costs in the past week going back and forth to the Guc! We have friends from Russia who are now trapped by this madness because when their Ikamet expired, their car and motorcycle were considered 'Illegal'. The government demanded they pay a fine of around 12000TL plus 25% of the Turkish assessed value of their vehicles. Vehicles in Turkey cost around 4 times what they cost almost anywhere else and there is a saying here that if you want to buy a car here, you have to buy two for the government. The rules and regulations are totally arbitrary, and I agree they cannot be trusted. Foreigners have been lured here to purchase real estate and then are fleeced for every possible penny. I have just told my real estate agent to sell my properties and we are leaving. The Turkish government is essentially a kleptomaniac and will cook their Golden Goose with their greed and incompetence.