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Six residence/visa facilitations for Turkish citizens under Article 28A

Rule record · last verified 22 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

Under Article 28A (made under the 2000 TRNC-Türkiye bilateral facilitation agreement, Law 34/2000), Turkish citizens: (1) are exempt from Article 14(2)(b)(v)'s income condition on the sale-contract property-residence route; (2) have Article 14(2)(i)'s specific income-multiple requirement replaced with a general 'enough income to sustain oneself' test; (3) are exempt, for parents over 60, from the family-permit sponsor-employment/children-under-12 condition in Article 16(1)(c); (4) face the Article 20(2)(a) health-check condition only once every two years, not the general cadence; (5) are exempt from the short-term residence-permit requirement when approved by the Ministry to film promotional content; (6) receive a 90-day visa on first entry for most visa categories, with only subsequent entries following the normal category-specific durations.[1]

Exceptions

  • Law 34/2000 itself, the underlying bilateral agreement, has not been fetched or read — Article 28A's own text is the direct primary evidence for these six facilitations, but whether Law 34/2000 contains further facilitations not restated in Article 28A is unknown.
  • Does not establish whether 'citizens of the Republic of Türkiye' has ever been read more broadly than its plain nationality meaning (e.g. dual nationals) — not researched.

Where this rule comes from

Authority
Council of Ministers, TRNC
Jurisdiction
Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Basis
Legislation · asserted by us within this jurisdiction
Verification
Primary source verified. We read the primary text ourselves on 22 September 2026.
Legal review
Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer.

History of this rule

  • — Published following Founder approval. Whether the existing recognising-state-citizens Concept (currently scoped to property acquisition-unit counts) should be broadened to cover this residence/visa material is left as a future encoding-architecture decision, not made here. (version 1, First published)

Sources for this rule

Numbered in order of first use. Each entry names the kind of source it is and the day we read it.

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Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/turkish-citizen-residence-visa-facilitations

Identifier turkish-citizen-residence-visa-facilitations · Open data · challenge this rule