{"id":46812,"date":"2026-09-01T06:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/turkish-citizenship-by-marriage\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:24:32","slug":"turkish-citizenship-by-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/fa\/turkish-citizenship-by-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Citizenship by Marriage: The Three-Year Rule Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"46812\" class=\"elementor elementor-46812 elementor-bc-flex-widget\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-68846ad1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"68846ad1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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.mc-2col{grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:36px}\n  .mc-contact-inner{grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:36px}\n  .mc-cta-in{flex-direction:column;text-align:center}\n}\n@media(max-width:640px){\n  .mcc{padding:0 16px}\n  .mcs{padding:44px 0}\n  .mc-hero{min-height:auto}\n  .mc-hero-content{padding:48px 16px 56px}\n  .mc-hero h1{font-size:clamp(1.75rem,7.5vw,2.5rem)}\n  .mc-protect{grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:12px}\n  .mc-strip-in{grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr)}\n  .mc-title{font-size:clamp(1.4rem,6vw,1.85rem)}\n  .mc-step{gap:14px}\n  .mc-step-num{width:44px;height:44px;font-size:1rem}\n  .mc-steps::before{left:21px}\n  .mc-contact{padding:48px 0}\n}\n@media(max-width:480px){.mcc{padding:0 14px}}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"mc\">\n\n<!-- HERO -->\n<section class=\"mc-hero\">\n  <div class=\"mc-hero-bg\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"mc-hero-pat\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"mc-hero-ov\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"mc-hero-content\">\n    <span class=\"mc-eyebrow\">Citizenship Law &middot; Article 16 &middot; Updated September 2026<\/span>\n    <h1>Turkish Citizenship by Marriage: The Three-Year Rule Explained<\/h1>\n    <p class=\"mc-hero-sub\">Marrying a Turkish citizen does not make you one. It makes you eligible to apply, after three years, if the marriage is still continuing and two further conditions are met. Here is exactly what Article 16 requires, who decides, and what happens when circumstances change.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"mc-hero-meta\">\n      <div class=\"mc-hm\">&#128220; <strong>Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901, Article 16<\/strong><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-hm\">&#9200; <strong>Three years married, and continuing<\/strong><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-hm\">&#127482;&#127479; <strong>No language or residence test in Article 16<\/strong><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- DATA STRIP -->\n<div class=\"mc-strip\">\n  <div class=\"mcc\">\n    <div class=\"mc-strip-in\">\n      <div class=\"mc-si\"><span class=\"mc-sv\">3 Years<\/span><span class=\"mc-sl\">Minimum Marriage Duration Before Applying<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-si\"><span class=\"mc-sv\">Article 16<\/span><span class=\"mc-sl\">The Provision That Governs This Route<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-si\"><span class=\"mc-sv\">Not Automatic<\/span><span class=\"mc-sl\">Marriage Alone Confers No Citizenship<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-si\"><span class=\"mc-sv\">Law No. 5901<\/span><span class=\"mc-sl\">Turkish Citizenship Law, In Force Since 2009<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- INTRO + QUICK FACTS -->\n<section class=\"mcs\">\n  <div class=\"mcc\">\n    <div class=\"mc-2col\">\n      <div class=\"mc-body\">\n        <span class=\"mct\">Start Here<\/span>\n        <h2 class=\"mc-title\">Marriage opens a door. It does not walk you through it.<\/h2>\n        <p>The most common misunderstanding about this route is settled by the opening words of the governing provision. <strong>Article 16(1) of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901<\/strong> &mdash; adopted on 29 May 2009 and published in the Official Gazette on 12 June 2009 under number 27256 &mdash; states that Turkish citizenship shall not automatically be acquired by marriage with a Turkish citizen.<\/p>\n        <p>What marriage does is create eligibility. The same article continues: aliens who have been married to a Turkish citizen for at least three years and whose marriage continues can apply for the acquisition of Turkish citizenship. Both conditions in that sentence are load-bearing. Three years must have passed, and the marriage must still be subsisting when the application is made. A marriage that ended before the three-year mark produces no entitlement, and no amount of evidence about how genuine it was changes that.<\/p>\n        <p>Applicants then have to satisfy three further conditions, set out in the same paragraph: <strong>living within the unity of marriage<\/strong>; <strong>abstaining from acts incompatible with the unity of marriage<\/strong>; and <strong>having no quality constituting an obstacle with respect to national security and public order<\/strong>.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"mc-hbox\"><strong>What is conspicuously absent is as important as what is present.<\/strong> Article 16 contains no Turkish language requirement, no income or profession requirement and no five-year residence requirement. All three of those appear in Article 11, which governs ordinary naturalisation. The marriage route is genuinely lighter on the applicant &mdash; and correspondingly heavier on the marriage, because the first two conditions exist to test whether the marriage is real.<\/div>\n        <p>That trade is the key to understanding how these applications are handled. Where Article 11 asks an applicant to demonstrate integration into Turkish life over five years, Article 16 asks a couple to demonstrate that they are actually a couple. The scrutiny falls on the relationship rather than on the applicant&rsquo;s language, income or length of stay, and applicants who arrive expecting a paperwork exercise are sometimes surprised by how personal the process feels.<\/p>\n        <p>This guide sets out what the statute requires, who decides, what happens if the Turkish spouse dies or the marriage is annulled, and how this route compares with the alternatives. If you are weighing it against a property-based application, see our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/turkey-citizenship-by-investment-real-estate-400000\/\">Turkish citizenship through real estate<\/a>. If your first question is whether you would have to give up your existing passport, the answer is on our page explaining <a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/does-turkey-allow-dual-citizenship\/\">whether Turkey allows dual citizenship<\/a>.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div>\n        <div class=\"mc-ov\">\n          <div class=\"mc-ov-head\">\n            <h3>Article 16 &mdash; At A Glance<\/h3>\n            <p>The marriage route, reduced to its statutory elements<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n          <div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Governing provision<\/span><span class=\"mc-or burg\">Article 16, Law No. 5901<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Citizenship automatic on marriage<\/span><span class=\"mc-or burg\">No<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Minimum marriage duration<\/span><span class=\"mc-or burg\">Three years<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Marriage must be continuing<\/span><span class=\"mc-or\">Yes, at application<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Turkish language requirement<\/span><span class=\"mc-or\">Not in Article 16<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Income or profession requirement<\/span><span class=\"mc-or\">Not in Article 16<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Residence period requirement<\/span><span class=\"mc-or\">Not in Article 16<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Eligibility assessed by<\/span><span class=\"mc-or\">Provincial commission (Art. 18)<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Decision made by<\/span><span class=\"mc-or\">The Ministry (Art. 19)<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Effective from<\/span><span class=\"mc-or\">Date of decision (Art. 20)<\/span><\/div>\n            <div class=\"mc-ov-row\"><span class=\"mc-ol\">Renunciation of your nationality<\/span><span class=\"mc-or burg\">Not required by Turkey<\/span><\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-warn\" style=\"margin-top:16px;\">\n          <strong>Three years is a floor, not a formality.<\/strong> The duration requirement and the two unity-of-marriage conditions are separate tests. Meeting the three-year mark does not by itself satisfy Article 16, and Article 10(1) makes clear that fulfilling the stipulated conditions does not grant an absolute right to citizenship.\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- STEPS -->\n<section class=\"mcs mcg\">\n  <div class=\"mcc mcct\">\n    <span class=\"mct\">The Process<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"mc-title\">How a citizenship by marriage application actually moves<\/h2>\n    <p class=\"mc-sub\">Law No. 5901 divides the work between a provincial commission and the Ministry. Knowing which body is doing what explains most of the waiting.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mcc\">\n    <div class=\"mc-steps\">\n      <div class=\"mc-step\">\n        <div class=\"mc-step-num\">1<\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-step-body\"><h3>Confirm the three years have genuinely run<\/h3><p>The clock runs from the date of the marriage, and the marriage must still be continuing when you apply. Where a marriage was contracted abroad, make sure it has been properly registered in the Turkish civil records first, because an unregistered foreign marriage is a poor foundation for an application that turns on the marriage itself.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-step\">\n        <div class=\"mc-step-num\">2<\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-step-body\"><h3>Assemble evidence that the marriage is a shared life<\/h3><p>The conditions in Article 16(1)(a) and (b) &mdash; living within the unity of marriage and abstaining from acts incompatible with it &mdash; are what the file has to demonstrate. This is where couples who have lived apart for work, or who keep entirely separate finances and addresses, should expect questions and should prepare answers.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-step\">\n        <div class=\"mc-step-num\">3<\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-step-body\"><h3>Lodge the application and face the provincial commission<\/h3><p>Article 18 places the determination of whether the Article 16 conditions are met with citizenship application examination commissions formed in the provinces. Their formation and working principles are prescribed by a by-law. In practice this is the stage at which the couple is assessed rather than the paperwork.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-step\">\n        <div class=\"mc-step-num\">4<\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-step-body\"><h3>The file goes to the Ministry<\/h3><p>Under Article 19(1), a citizenship file is opened in the applicant&rsquo;s name and sent to the Ministry to be decided. After the Ministry&rsquo;s examination and inquiry, applicants whose situations are deemed appropriate acquire Turkish citizenship by decision of the Ministry; those deemed inappropriate are rejected by it.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-step\">\n        <div class=\"mc-step-num\">5<\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-step-body\"><h3>Citizenship takes effect from the date of decision<\/h3><p>Article 20(1) provides that decisions relating to the acquisition of Turkish citizenship are effective from the date of decision. It is not backdated to the application, and it does not wait on a passport being issued. That date is the one that matters for everything that follows.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-step\">\n        <div class=\"mc-step-num\">6<\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-step-body\"><h3>Register the multiple citizenship and reconcile your records<\/h3><p>If you are keeping your original nationality, Article 44 provides for an explanatory note to be attached to your family registry recording that you hold multiple citizenship. Do it, and make sure name spellings match across your passport, your identity card and any title deed, because mismatches are far harder to fix later.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- CARDS -->\n<section class=\"mcs\">\n  <div class=\"mcc mcct\">\n    <span class=\"mct\">The Fine Print<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"mc-title\">Six things the statute settles that people usually get wrong<\/h2>\n    <p class=\"mc-sub\">Each of these comes straight from Law No. 5901, and each of them changes the answer to a question couples ask constantly.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mcc\">\n    <div class=\"mc-protect\">\n      <div class=\"mc-pc\"><span class=\"mc-pc-icon\">&#9203;<\/span><h3>The three years must be complete<\/h3><p>Article 16(1) requires marriage to a Turkish citizen for at least three years, with the marriage continuing. Both limbs are tested at the point of application. Time spent living together before the marriage does not count towards it.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-pc\"><span class=\"mc-pc-icon\">&#128144;<\/span><h3>Bereavement is protected, but only after filing<\/h3><p>Article 16(2) waives the living-within-the-unity-of-marriage condition where the Turkish spouse dies after the application has been lodged. The protection is tied to that sequence, and it does not waive the remaining conditions.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-pc\"><span class=\"mc-pc-icon\">&#9878;&#65039;<\/span><h3>Annulment turns on good faith<\/h3><p>Under Article 16(3), where a marriage is declared null, an alien who acquired Turkish citizenship by marriage keeps it provided they had entered into the marriage in good faith. Good faith is the whole of the test.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-pc\"><span class=\"mc-pc-icon\">&#128106;<\/span><h3>Children are not carried automatically<\/h3><p>Article 20(2) provides that children of a mother and father who together acquire Turkish citizenship also acquire it. Article 20(3) sends children who did not acquire citizenship alongside a parent to Article 11 if they apply after reaching majority.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-pc\"><span class=\"mc-pc-icon\">&#128273;<\/span><h3>You keep your existing nationality<\/h3><p>Nothing in Article 16 requires renunciation. Article 44 provides for multiple citizenship to be recorded in the family registry rather than prohibited. Whether your own country permits it is a separate question for your own authorities.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-pc\"><span class=\"mc-pc-icon\">&#127968;<\/span><h3>Property is exposed if the file is false<\/h3><p>Articles 31 to 33 allow cancellation for misrepresentation, extend it to family members who acquired through you, and can require belongings in Turkey to be liquidated within one year. Accuracy in the file protects the asset.<\/p><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- TABLE -->\n<section class=\"mcs mcg\">\n  <div class=\"mcc mcct\">\n    <span class=\"mct\">Compare The Routes<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"mc-title\">Marriage, naturalisation or investment &mdash; what each route demands<\/h2>\n    <p class=\"mc-sub\">The three routes foreign nationals most often weigh against each other, as the statute defines them.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mcc\">\n    <div class=\"mc-compare-wrap\">\n      <table class=\"mc-compare\">\n        <thead>\n          <tr><th>Requirement<\/th><th>By marriage (Art. 16)<\/th><th>Naturalisation (Art. 11)<\/th><th>Exceptional route (Art. 12)<\/th><\/tr>\n        <\/thead>\n        <tbody>\n          <tr><td>Qualifying relationship or status<\/td><td>Married to a Turkish citizen<\/td><td>None required<\/td><td>Defined categories, incl. residence permit holders<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Minimum qualifying period<\/td><td>Three years of marriage<\/td><td>Five years of residence<\/td><td>No period stated in the article<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Continuous residence in Turkey<\/td><td class=\"yes\">Not required<\/td><td class=\"no\">Required, without interruption<\/td><td class=\"yes\">Not required<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Turkish language ability<\/td><td class=\"yes\">Not required<\/td><td class=\"no\">Sufficient level required<\/td><td class=\"yes\">Not required<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Income or profession test<\/td><td class=\"yes\">Not required<\/td><td class=\"no\">Required<\/td><td class=\"yes\">Not required<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Marriage itself is scrutinised<\/td><td class=\"no\">Yes, under Art. 16(1)(a) and (b)<\/td><td class=\"yes\">Not applicable<\/td><td class=\"yes\">Not applicable<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>National security and public order test<\/td><td>Applies<\/td><td>Applies<\/td><td>Applies<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Turkey requires you to renounce<\/td><td class=\"yes\">No<\/td><td class=\"yes\">No<\/td><td class=\"yes\">No<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Decided by<\/td><td>The Ministry (Art. 19)<\/td><td>The Ministry (Art. 19)<\/td><td>Resolution of the President of the Republic<\/td><\/tr>\n        <\/tbody>\n      <\/table>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"mc-body\" style=\"margin-top:28px;max-width:900px;\">\n      <p>The comparison makes the trade explicit. <strong>Article 11<\/strong> asks a great deal of the applicant personally: to be in the age of majority with the capacity to act, to have been resident in Turkey without interruption for five years preceding the application, to verify a determination to settle down in Turkey, to be of good moral character, to speak a sufficient level of Turkish, to have income or a profession providing for their own maintenance and that of their dependants, and to have no quality constituting an obstacle with respect to national security and public order. Article 15 allows an applicant to stay abroad without exceeding twelve months within that residence period, a figure raised from six months by Law No. 7039 of 19 October 2017.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>Article 12<\/strong>, the exceptional route, asks almost nothing of the applicant personally and instead confines itself to defined categories, granting citizenship by resolution of the President of the Republic provided there is no obstacle with respect to national security and public order. Sub-paragraph (b), added by Law No. 7039 of 19 October 2017, brings in persons with residence permits, Turquoise Card holders and their alien spouses and underage and dependent alien children by reference to Article 31(1)(j) of Law No. 6458 on Foreigners and International Protection of 4 April 2013. That is the provision through which property-based applications are processed.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>Article 16<\/strong> sits between the two. It waives the personal tests that make Article 11 demanding, and in exchange it puts the marriage under examination. Which route is right is usually settled by circumstance rather than preference: a couple three years married is not choosing between these routes so much as discovering which one is open. Where more than one is available, the honest comparison is between how much of your own life you want examined and how much you are prepared to invest.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"mc-warn\"><strong>On numbers, deliberately.<\/strong> This page states what Law No. 5901 provides and does not state government fees, processing times or investment thresholds, all of which change and none of which are fixed by this statute. Confirm every current figure with a licensed Turkish adviser or the relevant authority before you rely on it.<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- CTA -->\n<div class=\"mc-cta-strip\">\n  <div class=\"mcc\">\n    <div class=\"mc-cta-in\">\n      <div>\n        <h3>Weighing the marriage route against a property-based application?<\/h3>\n        <p>We will set out what each route would require in your circumstances, and what the property side involves.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/contact\/\" class=\"mcbtn\">Talk to Our Team &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- FAQ -->\n<section class=\"mcs\">\n  <div class=\"mcc mcct\">\n    <span class=\"mct\">FAQ<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"mc-title\">Turkish citizenship by marriage &mdash; frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n    <p class=\"mc-sub\">The questions couples ask most often about the three-year rule and what happens when circumstances change.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mcc\">\n    <div class=\"mc-faq-list\">\n      <div class=\"mc-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-q\" onclick=\"mcFaq(this)\">Does marrying a Turkish citizen make you Turkish automatically?<span class=\"mc-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-a\">No, and Article 16(1) of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901 says so in the first sentence: Turkish citizenship shall not automatically be acquired by marriage with a Turkish citizen. Marriage creates eligibility to apply, and nothing more. The same article sets the threshold for applying: aliens who have been married to a Turkish citizen for at least three years and whose marriage continues can apply for the acquisition of Turkish citizenship. Both halves of that sentence matter. Three years must have elapsed, and the marriage must still be subsisting at the point of application. A marriage that ended at two years and eleven months confers no entitlement at all, however genuine it was.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-q\" onclick=\"mcFaq(this)\">What conditions does an applicant have to meet under Article 16?<span class=\"mc-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-a\">Article 16(1) lists three, and they are notably different in character from the conditions attached to ordinary naturalisation. The applicant must be living within the unity of marriage; must be abstaining from acts incompatible with the unity of marriage; and must have no quality constituting an obstacle with respect to national security and public order. There is no language requirement in Article 16, no income or profession requirement, and no five-year residence requirement \u2014 all of which do appear in Article 11 for general naturalisation. The trade-off is that the marriage itself comes under scrutiny, because the first two conditions are the statute's guard against marriages entered into for the purpose of obtaining a passport.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-q\" onclick=\"mcFaq(this)\">What happens if the Turkish spouse dies while the application is pending?<span class=\"mc-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-a\">The law addresses this directly and sympathetically. Article 16(2) provides that where the marriage ends by the death of the spouse who is a Turkish citizen, after the application has been lodged, the applicant shall not be required to fulfil the condition laid down in sub-paragraph (a) of the first paragraph \u2014 that is, the requirement of living within the unity of marriage. The timing is the operative element. The protection attaches to applications already lodged before the death. It does not create a route for a widow or widower who had not yet applied, and it does not waive the other two conditions in Article 16(1).<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-q\" onclick=\"mcFaq(this)\">If the marriage is annulled, is Turkish citizenship lost?<span class=\"mc-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-a\">Not necessarily, and the deciding factor is good faith. Article 16(3) provides that in the case of the declaration of nullity of the marriage, aliens who acquired Turkish citizenship by marriage shall keep Turkish citizenship provided they had entered into the marriage in good faith. The provision protects a person who married honestly and later discovered that the marriage was legally defective. It offers nothing to someone who entered a marriage knowing it to be a device. Note too that annulment and divorce are different things: Article 16(3) addresses a declaration of nullity, and citizenship already acquired by decision under Article 20 is not undone simply because a valid marriage later ends.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-q\" onclick=\"mcFaq(this)\">Who actually decides a citizenship by marriage application?<span class=\"mc-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-a\">Two bodies, in sequence. Under Article 18, the determination of whether an applicant fulfils the conditions for application under Articles 11 and 16 is made by citizenship application examination commissions formed in the provinces, whose formation and working principles are prescribed by a by-law. Under Article 19(1), a citizenship file is then opened in the applicant's name and sent to the Ministry to be decided; after the examination and inquiry made by the Ministry, those whose situations have been deemed appropriate can acquire Turkish citizenship by decision of the Ministry, and those deemed inappropriate are rejected by the Ministry. Article 20(1) adds that decisions relating to acquisition are effective from the date of decision.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mc-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-q\" onclick=\"mcFaq(this)\">Can citizenship obtained through marriage be cancelled later?<span class=\"mc-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"mc-faq-a\">Yes, where it was obtained dishonestly, and the consequences reach beyond the individual. Article 31 provides that a decision granting Turkish citizenship shall be cancelled if the person acquired it by misrepresentation or by hiding the key issues which form a basis for the acquisition. Article 32 extends the cancellation decision to a spouse and children who acquired Turkish citizenship for having links with that person. Article 33 then brings property into it: the law on the travel and residence of foreigners applies to a person whose citizenship is cancelled, and where liquidation of belongings is deemed necessary and stated in the cancellation decision, that person must liquidate their belongings in Turkey within one year at the latest, failing which the Treasury sells them and deposits the proceeds in their name and account at a state bank. Anyone who owns Turkish real estate should read that as a reason for scrupulous accuracy in the file.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"mc-body\" style=\"max-width:780px;margin:32px auto 0;\">\n      <p><strong>Related reading on citizenship, residency and property in Turkey:<\/strong><\/p>\n      <ul>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/does-turkey-allow-dual-citizenship\/\">Does Turkey allow dual citizenship<\/a> &mdash; whether you keep the passport you already hold.<\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/turkish-citizenship\/\">Turkish citizenship programme<\/a> &mdash; the investment route, start to finish.<\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/turkey-residence-permit-2\/\">Turkey residence permit<\/a> &mdash; the status most spouses hold while waiting.<\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/residence-permit-turkey-cost\/\">Residence permit costs in Turkey<\/a> &mdash; what the permit stage involves.<\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/health-insurance-in-turkey-for-foreigners\/\">Health insurance for foreigners<\/a> &mdash; a standing requirement for residence.<\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/tapu-title-deed-turkey\/\">The tapu, or Turkish title deed<\/a> &mdash; why name matching on the deed matters.<\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/trupropertyturkey.com\/turkey-property-guides\/\">Turkey property guides<\/a> &mdash; the full library for international buyers.<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n      <p style=\"font-size:.85rem;color:#777;\"><em>This article summarises the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901 (Official Gazette, 12 June 2009, No. 27256) as published in English by the Directorate General of Population and Citizenship Affairs. It is general information rather than legal advice, and it does not address the nationality law of any other country. 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