Live in Turkey, How to Apply for Your Residence Permit

Many people want to live abroad and Turkey is a popular choice, but the process to get your residence andlive in Turkey is a bit complicated.
Mick Scarsbrook (Mick Amca) explains the Criteria and shows the step by step process.
Residence Application official Turkish Government site:-
Link e-ikamet.goc.gov.tr/
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[@mickandtrudie]

There has been some changes to the application for residency. You must check with your local embassy.

[@traderfairy]

Can we please have an updated video that would be so good thank you in advance

[@TravelwithOmarFarooq]

How do you search the property? Could you let me know which sites you'd recommend? I am from the USA.

[@beyzanurwho2932]

It's funny, I am a Turkish citizen but I watch that video because I love your videos😊

[@v146824]

luckily married to a turkish citizen and will be moving there from crazy expensive California

[@wandettaz]

really? most people in turkey try to move to western countries

[@blackhawk3279]

I’m moving back soon from Canada , it’s too expensive to live here in Canada as well ...

[@mianfarjee2053]

@@wandettaz That’s what we human beings r , never Satisfied, always looking for More n More ..... .... anyway ..... Tc

[@eren6362]

@@wandettaz The statistics say that Turkey grows every year by 1 million people. So i dont think that anyone's moving out

[@OO-gd7]

Come Come cheap there for u

[@ayuuniadnaan1401]

This is unbelievable information we need most people went live turkey many thanks from UK

[@nizarhamad812]

Mick, thank you for all the good information, its really appreciated. Merry Christmas and happy new year.

[@AJ-eo2hz]

Thank you for a very informative video , from the Uk myself but love Turkey

[@abbysadventures274]

Great video and all tips - I’ve always dreamt of living in Kas - but it seems really hard . Merry Christmas to you and Happy New Year !

[@abidchaudhry9896]

Hi Mick Thanks for sharing authentic information. Let's hope. Please make a video for best practices of Dental implants. A very happy new year to you both.

[@Community-Update]

Very informative, Thanks Merry Christmas & a happy new year to You and Trudy!

[@harrymadray6362]

Thank you both for being so helpful to those of us who are fascinated by the idea of residing in Beautiful Turkey. The warmth and friendliness of the Turkish people, their delicious and tasty food, the cleanliness of the streets, the modernization of their Transportation system, the Elegance of their Clothes, etc etc, makes visiting Turkey an Unforgettable Experience!! Inshalla. (God Willing. )

[@aholtz3240]

Thank you, just what I needed.

[@barbaraprior3711]

Good advice thanks Mick and Trudie x We are hoping to apply in May.

[@juliadevlin7815]

Best videos on KZbin about turkey honest and down to earth

[@EveryCorner.]

Love Turkey 🇹🇷❤️ Thanks for sharing this ♥️

[@jspbipro]

Good information Mick..thanks! Happy Holidays.

[@exploringlifewithmaqbool7952]

That is a wonderful video - simple and straightforward.

[@StreetSmartMillionaire]

I have watched many of your videos but this was so helpful you gained another subscriber. Thank you! I also enjoyed your food prices in Fetiye. Would love to see one on eating vegetarian, like hummus, baba ganoush and greek salads, pita's and sauces. Continued blessings to you and Trudie.

[@arela1030]

Hello dear Mick and &Trudie, great to hear from such a intelligent and informed us .You are so inspiring,your words make sense.Thank you so much.God bless and peace grace both 🙏💙🦋💙🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@mahadihasan93]

Lovely couple, hope you enjoy your stay in Turkey. Thanks for your videos, very helpful.

[@LanguageswithErman]

Mick amca videolarını beğeniyorum.good job.🙋🏻‍♂️

[@sona2sona]

Thanks again will be following your footsteps one day

[@yelenakocheleva382]

Thanks for the information. Merry Christmas 🎄. Best regards from Seattle USA 🇺🇸

[@ahmetbazoglu]

Come to Turkey HarleyQuenn 🏍️

[@mariamalshaer]

Very good guys, thanks and merry Christmas 😘

[@ufkytalky8657]

a small correction Mick..the foreigners who has got already a "permit of residence" (blue book) they have a "kimlik no-id nr. " too which starts 99......until they get citizenship (if they apply) they use this nr. everywhere on any official processes online(like e-devlet) or personally in police office,post,bank.. . and turkish phone number is asking because calling the british or euro. numbers (all over in countey-thousands every summer) would be a huge cost for the offices and much easier for communication.I live abroad too as a turkish i had to give always a number of that country where i want to live..and believe me in turkey these things work much better ,friendly than in italy,france and in many countries:)))

[@mattyjacko123]

Thanks once again for a informative video, brilliant.

[@jasonbills8385]

Thank you guys for the useful info! I did not see Jacobsen info in the description though. Love your videos!

[@brianpotter8628]

Keep up the good work you two hope to be in calis at some stage cant wait brian from leeds

[@bunnyunicorn5209]

Thanks for recommending a nice local guy. That's wonderful to support ethical people. Do more videos on this as I don't want to drop 250USD on a house just yet until some changes happen there. Language is easy I pick them up every country I live in. Chinese was the hardest. Turkish is a doddle

[@alandwightdale]

Thanks mate. Very valuable information.

[@ahmedtabit]

thanks, Mick Merry Christmas

[@stevendougherty8824]

Cheers Mick very helpful and your timing is great as I’ve just had my offer on a property near Altinkum accepted 👍

[@elleshar666]

Just make sure to not send any money upfront unless you are already here or if you completely trust the people you are dealing with. Even Turks get scammed quite often with offers that look too good to be true. AND NEVER EVER make the payment without being in the same room of the owner. At the registry the officer will ask the seller "did you get your money" , if he says no the sale won't happen. As a matter of fact, just deal with an official realtor just to be 100% sure.

[@stevendougherty8824]

@@elleshar666 thanks for the information I will tread carefully much obliged..Merry Christmas 🎄

[@EsraKanat]

Lovely zone Steven, congratulations on your buy. I wish you a beautiful retirement days! 🍀

[@tamirci265]

merry christmas and happy new year mick 🤝👏 hamburg dan selamlar

[@DJIDroneTravel]

Thank you so much for these amazing videos that you are making it real helps a lot of people special me as I am planning to move to Turkey soon.

[@yavuzunal6619]

Whrre ya from bro ?

[@billsimpson2392]

Fantastic information. Much appreciated!

[@mianfarjee2053]

Woa !! Beautifully explained. Ur videos r truly packed full of Inspirational Ideas n of course Information. Cheers n Tc.

[@marthamaquilon1580]

Thank you for great information, I love Turkey, I would like to live in a future in this beautiful country 🇹🇷🙏

[@shadowqatar725]

I love this couple ❤️❤️❤️and how they explain and make viewers very easy to understand there videos.Çok teşekkür ederim 👍

[@meetomar861]

Merry Christmas!

[@divinesutra]

Very Blessed Christmas to you Mick & Trudy! All your videos are informative, most of all, its truthful, convincing & create trust in your viewers especially potential people who planned to move to Turkey. I'm wondering if you have a video on information on 1) Cost of living 2) Where do you begin to recce Turkey especially first-timer into Turkey before deciding to settle in or retire in Turkey. Thanks much again for all your wonderful & truthful works! Keep it up! May you be blessed with more!

[@MalteseKat]

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[@divinesutra]

@@MalteseKat Thank you, that helped. Happy Holidays!

[@nothing7056]

Very helpful and clear information. Thanks for sharing.

[@husseinabd6937]

Thanks Mick good info ℹ️

[@ianreid]

Another way as we did we went to a lovely man called Yakup Yilmas in fethiye he did everything for us for a small fee. He took us to all the relevent places we needed to go to to get all documets sorted.

[@mickandtrudie]

He is on the film

[@ianreid]

@@mickandtrudie yes we saw him. He is brilliant

[@samarkamran2254]

@Sabine please share that agent details 🙏

[@SviahRadcliffe]

Can you share the agent contact please,we need to apply one soon

[@zino8976]

​@SabineMorning could you provide the details of the agent please I need someone to help me with the paper work thanks a lot :)

[@m.e.8432]

thank you for your beautiful videos, love and greetings 💖👍

[@Nightowl1860]

Hi, I just want to comment on Trudies’ name issue! This matter relates to dual nationality rather than residency, but there may be UK citizens in Turkey who have taken Turkish nationality, and who may get caught out! (Especially women who may have UK passports in maiden names) The UK passport office now require all passports held, to be submitted for a UK passport renewal. You must make sure your name is identical in all passports, before they will renew it! My husband has dual nationality (Turkish and British) An “r” got put in his name some years ago in a clerical error, so his Turkish passport name is 1 letter different to the UK passport! The UK passport office declined to renew his UK passport until this was corrected, and this has been a very long process! This issue could severely delay someone’s travel plans!

[@nuranarrowood5808]

THANK YOU UNCLE MIKE

[@2023Red]

Hello. We are retired seniors from Texas and are thinking about buying or leasing in Antalya. We easily meet the requirements from your video. Our primary concerns are living in an English speaking community and in an upscale area of the city. We do not care if the home is an apartment or a single family home. Furnished or not. Our issues for you are getting set up for life. Examples are bank accounts, utilities, drivers license, and getting a new car or SUV. Your video addressed the government offices and the need for an agent. We assume they would be licensed by the state to ensure integrity of the people helping. Otherwise anyone could say just give me your passport and then disappear. So the issues are specific locations with the Antalya area if you know them and the topics above for getting set up. We do not need help in arriving in Turkey. Thanks

[@malikazam5235]

Thank you for sharing 🤗

[@wisikahn]

Great info, thank you Mick !!!!!!

[@orhanturkoglu1982]

That's excellent thanks for the information

[@ardaakkaya2122]

Thank you sir hello from moscow

[@joychillman7220]

Oh thank you just seen this video. I was wondering about health insurance. And residency. X

[@karenhowick6531]

Very informative - lovely videos

[@cahsan7260]

Good Info Pal !

[@turk187]

Hi folks, great videos and teal helpful advice, much appreciated.. I'm toying with the idea of relocating from UK to Turkey, get a small aprt mainly around the south Mediterranean coast area and would like to get your views on which areas would be kinda ideal for me... Thanx for your help, keep up the good work,always look forward to seeing what's new... Stay safe and be well the both of you...

[@mickandtrudie]

It’s a personal choice, travel around first

[@nedimgtc]

hi thanks for video ,if I may ask you not post Jakob (translator )contact id description below?thanks@@mickandtrudie

[@majidriaz5117]

Seasons greetings mick.

[@rizwanpathan4073]

informative n important information n advise , thx a lot

[@hania77777]

Thank you for information

[@khan140847]

Hi Mike great work can u make a video on good rental areas for propeeties for investing purpose thank u

[@bertwessels6189]

thanks again for the great info, for me its very usefull. hope that everything works out fine and get my turkish passport soon. just 1 thing, you forgot to mention that if you want a turkish passport, make sure that you still want to hold on to your own passport. (dopuble nationality) very important

[@bertwessels6189]

double not dopuble

[@jotakanim]

I want to thank you for this amazing information. Happy Christmas 🎄. Cok tessekuler ederim.

[@robbieyoung690]

Please do an updated video Mikey boy!

[@zeeshanzia2957]

Wow sir video start is awesome

[@eldios9854]

Very informative and helpful information thank you for that :) would it be possible for you to make a video about the life costs and so That would very nice much of luck have an nice day :)

[@tomh921]

Great informative video

[@kaviranjaniviwin1662]

So Geniune thank you

[@vista1417]

*Hi Mike; hope you are enjoying your festive season there ... How was your Xmas Donner - good ??? Bet you have a regular Kebapci ))*

[@sertacece]

Thanks for it!

[@patrickdocherty5839]

hi Michael And Trudie, great information on your videos, can you please tell me what is the rough cost for all the process to get my Ikemat for over 65s reg Patrick in Scotland

[@katerafiq3466]

Hi, Firstly- we love your videos! 😁👍🏼 secondly - we are moving over in a few weeks and want to start the residency process. We’d like to speak to Yaqub, but can’t find his details. could you share them again please? thanks very much.

[@mickandtrudie]

Yakup has to much work so I suggest you contact Gürkan [phone]

[@katerafiq3466]

@@mickandtrudie fantastic thank you so much. We have some friends in Gocek but they’re not in the know about residency and bringing our car over. Need some proper advice! Hope to see you round perhaps! We’ll be in Gocek and travelling around a bit. Then up to Bursa. Can’t wait! We have four kids who are also super excited and love your videos too. Even our five year old often says - “let’s watch Mick and Trudy!” And we’re also from the midlands!☺️👍🏼 thanks again x

[@maryamkim1281]

Great video.

[@marilynsik8959]

Mick and Trudie thank you for your information regarding the residency and the renting info . I would like to ask you where’s the best place to live within reasonable price. Maybe renting for a year first. Please thank you.

[@alpertaparli9750]

You two are great. Thanks for your hard work and beautiful&informative videos. Turkey is the ideal country for people who want to move away from western European countries. But still, I can see that products&properties are more expensive for foreigners than for locals (which is totally ok). I´m preparing to move out of Germany myself with my wife and have been looking for properties and land for over two years. The fact that I have Turkish roots makes many things easier for me. I plan to give advice and help others who want to take this step. From finding the right region and the dreamhouse to mastering the whole (complicated) process of buying it and even helping in the integration process. Do you think this could help people who want to take this step but don´t dare?

[@mickandtrudie]

There are already a lot of agencies doing a similar thing it’s just they’re not doing it on social media

[@alpertaparli9750]

@@mickandtrudie You´re right but what I have in mind is helping with the social aspect as well as with the technical procedures to ensure a pleasant process for people from Germany and England (those are the only two languages I mastered). You could say, I´m looking for future friends.

[@lentekrokus7936]

@@alpertaparli9750 what is your contact to reach you? and are you trustworthy ?

[@alpertaparli9750]

@@lentekrokus7936 😁 it was "could" of course.

[@tinadooley7145]

Its someone have been thinking about for some time now but am a single female, 64. I sm quite apprehensive and sadly don't speak the language. Any help I can get is appreciated. Want to rent initially for a year

[@princeenam]

Hi, it’s super video with lots of information. Can you suggest whether one should buy the house in Asian or European side. Especially if someone is looking property surrounded with the greenery.

[@gerthie]

Great information thanks

[@gamzeelci4453]

Mick amcaa süpersinnn

[@shafquatirshad4360]

Very informative . So translator vary from location to location. Any tips for Istanbul.

[@zmfr-er8im]

Thanks Mick

[@imranzazai7404]

Beautiful place.

[@kavinkad5733]

good on u all...

[@kadishafidi468]

Hi Mick & Trudie. Thank you very much for all the info regarding the buying of a property in Turkey and how to apply for residency. Is Antalya City a good and safe place to live in? I mean cost of properties, Health care & general cost of living. Thank you in anticipation.

[@mickandtrudie]

Yes lovely

[@aom425]

Thank you so much for the priceless advice and information. One question, I've heard from a few people that it's quite essential to learn the turkish language if you plan to live or have extended stays in Turkey, is that so? Can one get by without especially reading and writing Turkish? Thanks again. Seasons Greetings 🎄🎉🎆

[@mehmettasdeviren3507]

% 99 dont speak english my friend. only very small tourist areas will speak english sorry.

[@SunClub2018]

@@mickandtrudie dear mick I think you.ve realised over the years almost everybody wants either to learn english or to practise their english so we.d rather english native speakers dont learn turkish 🤭🤭🤭 just a joke but it.s definetely not a problem if you dont learn turkish 😊💚

[@SunClub2018]

dear ahmed almost everybody speaks at least tarzanish english here so obviously it wouldn.t cause a problem you not knowing turkish:) with peace

[@ta9117]

Thank You so much Mick! Merry Christmas to You and the Mrs!

[@balance3201]

Turkish red tape🧐 Dealing with it was an absolute nightmare. Hope things get better.

[@naveedaparveen7456]

Very nice good information thanks and regards Love from Pakistan

[@meetomar861]

Will appreciate if you can let us know the expenses involved for buying a property, other than the cost of property, like govt tax, tapu, lawyer fee, notary,etc. How much does all these cost to a buyer looking to buy a 1+1 or 1+2 apartment. Thanks & Regards,

[@HAP68]

Hi Mick thank you for your KZbin videos. How can we get the changes of rules information for the residentcy? Thank you

[@mickandtrudie]

The main change applies to certain nationalities and they’re only giving one year residency for first applications, unless you buy a property in Turkey

[@sandalice6727]

Interesting video! Can you tell how much income have to show for the resident permit?Thank you!

[@ryannakamura6906]

Yes the residency permit is a pain. But you can stumble through it. Have done it a few times. One problem a few people come across. The website locks up at a certain point. Our solution. Have someone who speaks turkish and change the language to turkish. Not sure if they fixed this glitch yet.

[@heartzamil3109]

New subscriber 😍

[@paul7dunning]

Thanks for this I am looking to move over and retire but do not yet get a pension and dont have an income but enough savings to live off would this stop you from getting a residence permit ? thanks

[@ryannakamura6906]

Thanks for the info. Would love to see an extra video on Long Term Residence permits. This is a big topic among our expats in izmir. We all disagree on many aspects.

[@cananamerikada3386]

Yes go back to your country stay there a couple of months and come back. As you should ask UK government to be kind to us as we are to you

[@nuranarrowood5808]

WOW RYAN NAKAMURA JAPAN'S LAST NAME AWESOME

[@reyhangezer1351]

Dayı iyi gezmeler.

[@mustafasusehri820]

Selamlar. Türkçe altyazi bekliyoruz. Tesekkür ederiz.

[@anvarjam]

Lovely couple with a lovely British accent. Love from New Delhi.

[@tinadooley7145]

Where do I find Jacobs details please?? Love your videos. So informative

[@mickandtrudie]

We use Gürkan Kurol now 00 90 (536) 296 70 08

[@excalibur7747]

Mick amca you want to live in my country and you do it easily.And I want to live in Cornwall, is the procedure for the long-term residency that easy in your country for a Turkish guy who love to live in your country?

[@faheemsiddiqui159]

VERY NICE AND INFORMATIVE.I VISITED TURKEY BACK IN 1993.NOW AFTER WATCHING YOUR VLOG I HAVE STARTED PONDERING TO RETIRE IN ONE OF THE CITIES SHOWN IN YOUR POSTS.IS HOUSEHOLD HELP AVAILABLE IN TURKEY? AND HOW MUCH IT COSTS? AS MY WIFE ALWAYS NEED SOME ONE'S HELP IN HER HOUSEHOLD CHORES.

[@World_Travel_0708]

Mick you are doing well, try to provide specific details of each topic. I.e step 1 Documents required for TRC Website where to fill out form Fees include

[@mickandtrudie]

It’s already on our channel

[@tj5308]

The current rule allows getting a 1-2 year tourist residence permit which can be renewed on the basis of an apartment rental contract.

[@Colonel1954Dz]

Thanks a lot Mick & Trudie! I have a question! As a couple, did you both need to provide proof of income independently or is it possible to apply using the same documents (if you're sponsoring your spouse for example)?.

[@mickandtrudie]

I didn’t even ask us for proof, but if you’ve got a joint bank account, I’m sure that would be okay