Rule
NCR reads the İş Kurma İzni's conjunctive trigger test (residence-intent plus acting in the capacity of employer) as capable of being met by a foreign director who is actively, personally managing a TRNC company's operations in the TRNC, even where that person draws no formal salary — because the Law's 'İşveren' (employer) definition turns on control over hiring/firing and operational decisions, not on being paid, unlike the separate 'İşçi' (worker) definition, which explicitly requires a wage. This is NCR's own interpretation of the statutory text's structure and silence on remuneration for this category, NOT an explicit textual holding using the words 'unpaid' or 'without salary' — no TRNC court decision, regulator statement or official guidance confirming this specific reading was located.[1][2]
Exceptions
- NCR INTERPRETATION, NOT A DIRECT TEXTUAL HOLDING: the underlying statutory text (definitions; Law Art. 5(3), 11, 12(1); Tüzük Art. 26-27) is primary-verified, but the specific conclusion that unpaid active management is caught is an inference NCR draws from the structure of the text, not a sentence the Law itself states. Treat with correspondingly lower confidence than a directly-quoted rule.
- This Rule must NOT be read, cited or summarised as 'every foreign director of a TRNC company requires a work permit' — it addresses only a director who is both residing in the TRNC beyond the entry-visa period AND personally, actively managing the company's operations there. A foreign director who is neither resident in the TRNC nor actively managing it is outside this reading.
- Passive shareholding, without active management, is NOT within this reading — see iskurma-izni-definition-and-conjunctive-trigger, which states the negative case directly from the statutory text.
- Whether a SALARIED director needs the İş Kurma İzni alone or that permit plus a separate employee work permit remains genuinely unresolved and is not addressed here (see q-invest-work-salaried-director-permit-stacking-unresolved, held for authority confirmation).
Applies to
- Who:
- Investors · Company shareholders