Turkey — Citizenship by Real Estate.

How crypto moves today — with an explicit legal warning

Turkey's citizenship-by-real-estate program is one of the largest CBI-adjacent routes in the world by volume, and unusually direct about crypto: all payments must move through a Turkish bank account, and a direct cryptocurrency payment to a developer is legally void for citizenship purposes. An applicant funding this route with crypto must liquidate it entirely through a licensed exchange and transfer the fiat proceeds through an official bank account before the real estate purchase — there is no partial or direct crypto settlement path, unlike the more ambiguous "select cases via licensed agents" language common across our Caribbean pages.

Why the explicit prohibition matters

Most programs in our directory don't state a position on direct crypto payment one way or the other — it's simply routed through an agent by convention. Turkey's law is unusual in making the prohibition explicit and consequential: a real estate purchase paid for in a way that circumvents the bank-transfer requirement risks the underlying citizenship grant itself, not just a processing delay. This is the clearest example in our directory of a program where getting the settlement mechanics wrong has legal teeth.

The other routes

Beyond real estate, Turkey also offers a $500,000 bank deposit, a $500,000 fixed-capital investment, government bonds, or creating employment for at least 50 Turkish citizens — all fiat-denominated, all subject to the same liquidation-first approach to any crypto-originated funds.

What ImmiCrypt's rail would add

A clean, bank-ready fiat transfer with full source-of-funds documentation attached — generated automatically rather than assembled ad hoc through whichever exchange an applicant happens to use — is exactly the kind of liquidation-and-compliance step our Settlement vertical is built to standardize, particularly for a program as explicit as Turkey's about how that liquidation has to happen.