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Legislation and gazettes
- A.E.336/2025, amending Articles 14, 16, 18 and 19 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation — the instrument that first removed the income condition for titled property owners (within Official Gazette No. 89 of 30 April 2025)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.336/2025 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 89, EK III, 30 Nisan 2025)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 30 April 2025 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full instrument.
Reading note: The pivotal instrument in this amendment-chain reconstruction: it is where the property-owner income condition was removed from Article 14(2)(b)(iv).
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. This is the instrument that first dropped the monthly-income requirement for a titled property owner (compare A.E.88/2020, which required one minimum wage per month) and set the 5-year duration, phrased as mandatory ('düzenlenir' — the permit is issued). A second amendment two weeks later (A.E.386/2025) restated the same substance with a discretionary verb ('düzenlenebilir' — the permit may be issued) and a differently worded (v); see src-gazette-2025-101-ae386-2025. Read in full alongside this instrument's other amendments (Article 16(2)(d), a student-sponsor exclusion; Article 18(5), the marriage-of-convenience citizen-spouse consequence; Article 19(6), a private-school student-permit rule; Article 22(2)(b)(ii), a renewal-window rule; and a new Geçici Madde 2, a fine exemption for under-18 Ministry of Education-registered students). Commencement (Article 10, not separately quoted): 'Bu Tüzük, Resmi Gazete'de yayımlandığı tarihten başlayarak yürürlüğe girer' — in force from the date of Gazette publication, i.e. 30 April 2025. Article 6's Article 16(2)(d) wording quoted above is word for word identical to the current (2026) consolidated text, and no later amendment touches Article 16(2)(d) — this sub-clause has been settled since 30 April 2025.
Quoted passages (2)
Article 5(2), replacing Article 14(2)(b)(iv)-(v)
"(iv) Taşınmaz malın başvuran adına tapu koçanı bulunması halinde herhangi bir gelir şartı aranmaksızın ikamet izni 5(beş) yıl olarak düzenlenir." "(v) Taşınmaz mala ilişkin satış sözleşmesi ile Bakanlığa başvuru yapılması halinde 2(iki) yıl, Yapılan başvuru sonucunda Bakanlar Kurulu'ndan taşınmaz mala ilişkin satın alma izni verilmesi halinde; ikamet izni 5(beş) yıl olarak düzenlenir. Bu alt bent kapsamında yapılan başvurularda aylık en az bir asgari ücret tutarında gelir sahibi olma koşulu aranır."
Translation: “"(iv) Where the title deed to the immovable property is registered in the applicant's own name, the residence permit is issued for 5 years, without any income condition being required." "(v) Where application is made to the Ministry under a sale contract for the immovable property: 2 years; where the Council of Ministers, following that application, grants permission to acquire the immovable property: the residence permit is issued for 5 years. Applications under this sub-clause require a monthly income of at least one minimum wage."”
Article 6, replacing Article 16(2)(d)
Esas Tüzük, 16'ncı maddesinin (2)'inci fıkrasının (d) bendi kaldırılmak ve yerine aşağıdaki yeni (d) bendi konmak suretiyle değiştirilir: "(d) Öğrenci ikamet izni sahipleri, Ancak; Eğitim İşleri ile Görevli Bakanlığa kayıtlı ilk ve orta öğretim okullarında eğitim görmelerinden dolayı öğrenci ikamet izni alan 18 (on sekiz) yaşını doldurmamış olan yabancılar bu madde uyarınca destekleyici olarak kabul edilmez."
Translation: “Article 16(2)(d) of the Principal Regulation is replaced with: "(d) Student residence permit holders. However, foreigners under 18 who hold a student residence permit because they are enrolled in primary/secondary schools registered with the Ministry responsible for Education Affairs are not considered a sponsor under this article."”
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src-gazette-2025-089-ae336-2025 - A.E.350/2021, amending Articles 5, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22 and 28A of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation, and adding Geçici Madde 5-6 (within Official Gazette No. 106 of 12 May 2021)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.350/2021 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 106, EK III, 12 Mayıs 2021)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 12 May 2021 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full instrument read directly from high-resolution page renders (pdfjs-dist + @napi-rs/canvas), not OCR — every one of the 13 numbered provisions plus both Geçici Madde..
Reading note: Closes the gap flagged earlier the same day. Page renders were temporary working files, not committed to the repository; only this source record's quoted text and the original PDF/extracted-text pair are kept.
Editorial note: Independently obtained and read in full by NCR Editorial on 2026-09-19, closing the gap left by an earlier investigation and a separate verification reading (both 2026-09-19), which had found this instrument's substantive pages to be scanned images with no machine-readable text layer. Recovered by rendering the specific PDF pages (14-20 of 61, corresponding to printed Gazette pages 856-862, located via the issue's own sequential EK III item numbering, which matches the A.E. number directly) to high-resolution PNG images using pdfjs-dist + @napi-rs/canvas (both already project dependencies) and reading them directly (by the model's own vision), NOT by automated OCR — no OCR tool was available or used; this is a direct human/model reading of a legible rendered image, held to the same standard as reading any other scanned primary source. The full instrument (all 13 numbered provisions, Articles 1-13, plus Geçici Madde 5-6) was read: Article 2 (Article 5(6)(ı), a visa-entry discretion), Article 3 (Article 10(2)(c) and 10(5), visa-cancellation rules), Article 4 (Article 12(1)(e),(h),(k),(n),(l)(ii) and 12(2)-(3), residence-permit exemptions), Article 5 (Article 14(2)(l)-(n), education/culture and humanitarian short-term permits), Article 6 (Article 15(7)(a) and 15(8), quoted above), Article 7 (Article 16(1)(c) and new (f), quoted above), Article 8 (Article 17(1), renumbering), Article 9 (Article 19(1), student residence eligibility), Article 10 (Article 22(2)(c) and (5), permit-renewal fee/backdating rules), Article 11 (Article 28A(8), a new exemption for aid-worker/humanitarian-context families), Geçici Madde 5 (a transitional rule for over-60 foreigners already in the country when this Regulation took effect — related to, but not the same provision as, the 60-year-threshold rule NCR has separately tracked; not investigated further here, out of the scope of this research), Geçici Madde 6 (a transitional rule allowing retroactive residence-permit backdating for four named categories of people who were eligible but had not applied), and Article 13 (commencement). DIRECTLY CONFIRMS (not inferred): (1) the current Article 16(1)(c) wording — including its 'spouse pregnant, medically proved' alternative condition — originates word for word from this instrument's Article 7, not from A.E.88/2020 (which had only the under-12-children condition, no pregnancy alternative — see src-gazette-2020-022-ae88-2020); (2) Article 16(1)(f) ('a citizen sponsor's unmarried children') was NEWLY INSERTED by this instrument's Article 7 ('(f) bendi konmak suretiyle' = 'sub-clause (f) being inserted') — it did not exist before 12 May 2021; (3) Article 15(8)'s current wording (no private-insurance-alternative clause) also originates from this instrument's Article 6(2), which REMOVED a private-insurance-alternative clause that had existed in A.E.88/2020's February 2020 version ('..veya Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde Bakanlıkça kabul edilen özel bir sağlık sigortası yaptırmamış olan..') — a genuine, newly surfaced finding relevant to a DIFFERENT candidate (a related finding, Candidate #5), flagged here but NOT acted on, since updating that candidate is outside this reading's narrow Article 16 scope. Both quoted passages above are word-for-word identical to the current (2026) consolidated regulation text, independently cross-checked against both the 19 February 2026 and 14 September 2026 consolidated texts (src-mevzuat-residence-regulation-2026 and the newer republished copy at an internal copy) — confirming no drift since 2021-05-12 for these two provisions. Commencement (Article 13, quoted): 'Bu Tüzük, Resmi Gazete'de yayımlandığı tarihten başlayarak yürürlüğe girer' — in force from the date of Gazette publication, i.e. 2021-05-12.
Quoted passages (2)
Article 6(2), replacing Article 15(8)
Esas Tüzük 15'inci maddesinin (8)'inci fıkrası kaldırılmak ve yerine aşağıdaki yeni (8)'inci fıkra konmak suretiyle değiştirilir: "(8) Herhangi bir ikamet izni türü için başvuru yapan ve sosyal sigorta kapsamında kamu sağlık hizmetlerinden yararlanma hakkı olmayan yabancılardan Sağlık Fonu Yasası uyarınca prim ödeneği tahsil edilir. Ödenecek olan prim miktarı, talep edilen veya verilmesi tasarlanan ikamet izni süresine göre ayarlanır."
Translation: “Article 15(8) of the Principal Regulation is replaced with: "(8) A Health Fund Law premium is collected from foreigners applying for any type of residence permit who have no right to benefit from public health services under social insurance. The premium amount payable is adjusted according to the length of residence permit requested or intended to be granted."”
Article 7, replacing Article 16(1)(c) and inserting new Article 16(1)(f)
Esas Tüzük 16'ncı maddesinin (1)'inci fıkrasının (c) bendi kaldırılmak ve yerine aşağıdaki yeni (c) bendi ile, (e) bendinden hemen sonra da (f) bendi konmak suretiyle değiştirilir: "(c) Destekleyici ve eğer varsa eşinin çalışıyor olması durumunda eşinin hamile olması ve bunu doktor raporuyla kanıtlaması halinde veya on iki yaşından küçük çocuklarının olması koşuluyla, destekleyicinin veya eşinin anne ve babasına. (f) Yurttaş olan destekleyicinin bekar çocuklarına."
Translation: “Article 16(1)(c) of the Principal Regulation is replaced, and a new (f) is inserted immediately after (e): "(c) To the parents of the sponsor or spouse, provided that where the sponsor and, if applicable, spouse are working, either the spouse is pregnant and proves this with a medical report, or they have children under twelve. (f) To a citizen sponsor's unmarried children."”
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src-gazette-2021-106-ae350-2021 - A.E.386/2025, amending Article 14 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation — restates the property-owner income exemption in its current wording (within Official Gazette No. 101 of 15 May 2025)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.386/2025 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 101, EK III, 15 Mayıs 2025)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 15 May 2025 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Article 3(1) (amending Article 14(2)(b)(iv)-(v)) and Article 4 (commencement) read and cross-checked against the 2026 consolidated text's identical wording; the instrument's other content not separately reviewed..
Reading note: OCR quality on this extraction is poor; readings were corroborated against the clean consolidated-text wording already held, not relied on from this extraction alone.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. Published and effective 15 days after A.E.336/2025 (see src-gazette-2025-089-ae336-2025), this instrument restates the same substance (no income condition for a titled owner; 5-year duration) but changes the operative verb from mandatory ('düzenlenir') to discretionary ('düzenlenebilir' — a residence permit may be issued), and replaces (v) with the Tax-Office-stamped-contract wording. This wording is, word for word (allowing for OCR noise in this extraction), identical to Article 14(2)(b)(iv)-(v) as they stand in the 2026-02-19 consolidated regulation text NCR already holds (src-mevzuat-residence-regulation-2026) — confirming no further amendment to sub-clause (iv) has been found between 15 May 2025 and the consolidated text's date. Every later Residence Permits and Visas Regulation amendment through 19 September 2026 (A.E.619/2025, A.E.918/2025, A.E.30/2026, A.E.64/2026, A.E.177/2026, A.E.460/2026, A.E.784/2026, A.E.808/2026, A.E.830/2026) was separately checked, and none touch Article 14(2)(b) at all. Commencement (Article 4, not separately quoted): 'Bu Tüzük, Resmi Gazete'de yayımlandığı tarihten başlayarak yürürlüğe girer' — in force from the date of Gazette publication, i.e. 15 May 2025. This Gazette issue's local text extraction has meaningful OCR degradation (broken/reordered characters); the quoted passage above was cross-checked against the clean, matching wording already independently read in the 2026 consolidated text and is not a fresh reading of degraded OCR alone.
Quoted passages (1)
Article 3(1), replacing Article 14(2)(b)(iv)-(v)
"(iv) Taşınmaz malın başvuran adına tapu koçanı bulunması halinde herhangi bir gelir şartı aranmaksızın ikamet izni 5(beş) yıl olarak düzenlenebilir." "(v) Taşınmaz mala ilişkin Gelir ve Vergi Dairesi'nden pullanmış ve onaylı taşınmaz mal satış sözleşmesi ile Bakanlığa başvurulması halinde, talep edilen izin süresi kadar herhalükarda 5(beş) yıla kadar, bu alt bent kapsamında yapılan başvurularda aylık en az bir asgari ücret tutarında gelir sahibi olma koşulu aranır. Düzenli gelir sahibi olmayanlar bakımından bir asgari ücret tutarındaki geliri talep edeceği izin süresi çarpımı sonucu elde edilecek miktar kadar bankaya yatırılmış geliri olması koşuluyla herhalükarda 5(beş) yıla kadar ikamet izni verilebilir."
Translation: “"(iv) Where the title deed to the immovable property is registered in the applicant's own name, a residence permit may be issued for 5 years, without any income condition being required." "(v) Where application is made to the Ministry under a sale contract for the immovable property that has been stamped and approved by the Tax Office: for whatever permit length is requested, up to 5 years in any case; applications under this sub-clause require a monthly income of at least one minimum wage. For those without a regular income, a residence permit of up to 5 years in any case may be issued provided they have deposited in a bank an amount equal to one minimum wage multiplied by the number of years of permit requested."”
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src-gazette-2025-101-ae386-2025 - A.E.460/2026, amending Articles 2 and 12 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation (within Official Gazette No. 97 of 25 May 2026)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.460/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 97, EK III, 25 Mayıs 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 25 May 2026 · accessed 17 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. A.E.460/2026 in full, Turkish.
Reading note: Scope is the specific instrument only, not the surrounding 1,030-page combined Gazette issue, which was not reviewed.
Editorial note: Official Gazette No. 97 (25.05.2026) is a large combined issue (1,030 pages, 83 MB) containing many unrelated instruments (appointments, decrees, other regulations). This source record's scope is A.E.460/2026 only — the amendment to the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation, located at 'Sayı: 460' within the issue (lines 5602-5839 of the extracted text) — not the rest of the issue, which has not been read. A.E.460 itself was read in full: it amends only the Article 2 'Destekleyici' (sponsor) definition and inserts one new paragraph, Article 12(1)(r), a residence-permit exemption for a sponsor's over-70 grandparent with no living first-degree relative. Commencement (Article 4, not separately quoted): in force from the date of Gazette publication, i.e. 2026-05-25.
Quoted passages (2)
Article 2 (new "Destekleyici" definition)
"Destekleyici", ülkede yurttaş veya yasal ikamet izinli olarak yaşayan bir kişinin aile birliği amacıyla Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'ne gelen yabancıların geçim, masraf ve barınmalarını üstlenen ve ikamet izni talebinde veya ikamet izni muafiyetinde bulunanlar tarafından başvuruya dayanak gösterilen kişiyi,
Translation: “"Sponsor" means a person, living in the country as a citizen or as a legal residence-permit holder, who undertakes the livelihood, expenses and housing of a foreigner coming to the TRNC for the purpose of family unity, and who is named as the basis for an application by a person applying for a residence permit or for a residence-permit exemption.”
Article 12(1), new paragraph (r)
"(r) Destekleyicinin, 70 (yetmiş) yaşından büyük üst soyundan olup, 1. derece akrabası (anne, baba, çocuk) hayatta olmayan nene ve dedesine."
Translation: “"(r) To the sponsor's direct ascendant grandmother or grandfather, aged over 70, none of whose first-degree relatives (mother, father, child) are alive."”
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src-gazette-2026-097-ae460-2026 - A.E.77/2025, amending Article 9(1)(d)(iii) of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation and inserting a new Article 29 (biometric data collection authority) — CONFIRMED not to touch Article 16 (within Official Gazette No. 12 of 21 January 2025)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.77/2025 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 12, EK III, 21 Ocak 2025)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 21 January 2025 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full instrument (all 4 provisions) read directly from high-resolution page renders, not OCR..
Reading note: Confirms definitively that this instrument does not amend Article 16. Page renders were temporary working files, not committed to the repository.
Editorial note: Independently obtained and read in full by NCR Editorial on 2026-09-19, by rendering the specific PDF pages (40-43 of 45, printed Gazette pages 169-172, located via the issue's own EK III item numbering, matching the A.E. number directly) to high-resolution PNG images (pdfjs-dist + @napi-rs/canvas, not OCR) and reading them directly. The FULL instrument was read (all 4 numbered provisions): Article 1 (short title), Article 2 (quoted above), Article 3 (quoted above), Article 4 (commencement). CONFIRMED, by direct and complete reading — not by inference from the absence of a marker — that this instrument does NOT touch Article 16 in any way. It touches only Article 9(1)(d)(iii) (a student-visa duration rule, unrelated to family residence) and inserts a new Article 29 (biometric data collection), renumbering the old Articles 29-30 to 30-31. Commencement (Article 4, quoted in substance): 'Bu Tüzük, Resmi Gazete'de yayımlandığı tarihten başlayarak yürürlüğe girer' — in force from the date of Gazette publication, i.e. 2025-01-21.
Quoted passages (2)
Article 2, replacing Article 9(1)(d)(iii)
"(iii) Öğrenci İkamet İzni Başvurusu İçin Vize: Öğrenci İkamet izni almak üzere ülkeye gelen yabancılara, öğrenci kayıt veya ön kayıt belgesi sunmaları üzerine doksan gün süreli vize verilir. Bu verilen vize süresi içerisinde öğrenci ikamet izni alınmadan ülkeye yapılacak sonraki girişlerde otuz gün süreli vize verilir."
Translation: “"(iii) Visa for a Student Residence Permit Application: A 90-day visa is granted to foreigners coming to the country to obtain a student residence permit, on presentation of an enrolment or pre-enrolment document. For subsequent entries to the country within that visa period without having obtained the student residence permit, a 30-day visa is granted."”
Article 3, inserting a new Article 29 (biometric data collection authority for Immigration Officers), renumbering the then-existing Articles 29 and 30 to 30 and 31
Esas Tüzük, 28A maddesinden hemen sonra aşağıdaki yeni 29'uncu madde eklenmek ve 29'uncu ve 30'uncu maddeler sırasıyla 30'uncu ve 31'inci madde olarak yeniden sayılandırılmak suretiyle değiştirilir: "Muhaceret Memurlarının Yetkisi 29. (1)(A) Ülkede bulunan yabancıları kayıt altına almak ve kaçak yaşamın önüne geçebilmek için... parmak ve avuç içi izlerini almaya ve fotoğraflarını çekmeye yetkilidir."
Translation: “A new Article 29 ("Authority of Immigration Officers") is inserted after Article 28A, empowering Immigration Officers to collect fingerprints, palm prints and photographs as biometric data from foreigners for identification and irregular-migration purposes, with data-retention, access and data-protection-law conditions in sub-paragraphs (B)-(Ç); paragraph (2) makes providing biometric data mandatory for a residence-permit application (with refusal barring the permit) and for detainees at the Central Prison. The then-existing Articles 29 and 30 are renumbered 30 and 31.”
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src-gazette-2025-012-ae77-2025 - A.E.783/2026 — E-Vize (Electronic Visa) Regulation, made under Article 20 of the Aliens and Immigration Law, Cap 105 (within Official Gazette No. 154 of 24 August 2026)
E-Vize (Elektronik Vize) Tüzüğü, A.E.783/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 154, EK III, 24 Ağustos 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 24 August 2026 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Articles 1-7 read (Kısa İsim, Tefsir/definitions, Amaç, Kapsam, eligible applicants and processing time, health condition, single/multi-entry visa issuance); the remainder of this 21-page regulation (data-protection/YKN integration detail, fee provisions if any, and transitional/commencement articles) was not read in full..
Reading note: Bounded to answering q-live-e-vize-scope; not a full read of the instrument.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. A.E.783/2026 is a genuinely separate instrument from the companion A.E.784/2026 (which amends the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation itself) within the same Gazette issue — this is the first standalone TRNC E-Visa regulation, made under Article 20 of the base Aliens and Immigration Law (Fasıl 105) rather than as an amendment to the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation. It is a procedural/channel regulation: e-Vize is an online application mechanism for the existing visa types already listed in Article 9 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation, not a new visa category with its own substantive entry conditions. Which countries' citizens must or may use it is left to Council of Ministers designation, not stated in this Regulation's own text — this list is inherently volatile and was not separately sought here.
Quoted passages (3)
Article 2 (definitions: E-Vize, single/multiple-entry visa)
"E-Vize (Elektronik Vize)", Bakanlar Kurulu tarafından e-vize uygulamasına tabi tutulan ülkelerden gelecek olan yabancı uyruklu kişiler tarafından online müracaat edilerek elektronik vize almalarını sağlayan sistemi[dir].
Translation: “"E-Visa (Electronic Visa)" means the system enabling foreign nationals from countries subjected to the e-visa scheme by the Council of Ministers to obtain an electronic visa by applying online.”
Article 4 (scope)
Bakanlık ve paydaş kurumların otomasyon sistemleri ile entegre edilerek çalışması ve Bakanlar Kurulu tarafından belirlenecek ülkelerden gelecek olan yabancı uyruklu kişilere uygulanacak vize işlemleri için internet üzerinden online başvuru alınmak suretiyle elektronik vize verilmesidir.
Translation: “[This Regulation's scope is] the granting of electronic visas by accepting online applications over the internet, for visa transactions applicable to foreign nationals coming from countries to be determined by the Council of Ministers, operating integrated with the automation systems of the Ministry and partner institutions.”
Article 5(1)(A)-(B), (2)-(3) (who is subject to e-Vize, and processing time)
(1) (A) E-Vize uygulamasına tabii tutulacak ülke yurttaşları Bakanlar Kurulu tarafından belirlenir. (B) E-Vize başvuru kriterleri ve şartları Bakanlık tarafından belirlenir. (2) İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler Tüzüğü'nün 9'uncu maddesinde belirtilen vize türlerinden herhangi biri için ülkeye giriş amacıyla başvuracak kişiler. (3) E-Vize başvurularının otuz gün içinde sonuçlandırılması esastır. Ancak idari gereklilikler nedeniyle bu süre en fazla 60 (altmış) [güne uzatılabilir].
Translation: “(1)(A) The countries whose citizens are subject to the e-Visa scheme are determined by the Council of Ministers. (B) E-Visa application criteria and conditions are determined by the Ministry. (2) [Covers] persons applying to enter the country for any of the visa types specified in Article 9 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation. (3) As a rule, e-Visa applications are to be resolved within thirty days. However, for administrative reasons, this period may be extended to a maximum of 60 days.”
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src-gazette-2026-154-ae783-2026 - A.E.784/2026, amending Articles 2-10, 12-14, 20, 25 and 28 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation (within Official Gazette No. 154 of 24 August 2026)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.784/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 154, EK III, 24 Ağustos 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 24 August 2026 · accessed 17 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Article 3 (new Article 4(2)(d), passport-validity condition) and the First/Second Schedule (residence-permit and visa-extension fees) quoted directly..
Reading note: PDF INTEGRITY NOTE: the raw machine text extraction of the fee-schedule page scrambled the table's columns (interleaving the 'Geriye Dönük İzin Harcı'/backdated-fee column's 'Aylık 1,000.00 TL' entry with unrelated rows). The page was rendered to an image and read directly to establish the correct table structure before quoting it. This is a concrete instance of catching a genuine extraction error before it became a quoted 'fact'.
Editorial note: Official Gazette No. 154 (24.08.2026) contains two regulations under EK III: A.E.783/2026 (a new, separate E-Vize/Electronic Visa Tüzüğü, not an amendment to this Regulation) and A.E.784/2026 (the amendment to the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation). This source record's scope is A.E.784/2026 only, read in full: it replaces or amends Articles 2, 3, 4(2), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12(1) and (5)-(8), 13(3), 14(2)(m), 20, 25(2)(b) and 28, adds a new Second Schedule (visa-extension fee) and revises the First Schedule (residence-permit fees), and adds one transitional provision (Geçici Madde 1, on the residence-permit exemption repealed at Article 12(1)(p) — see the notes on the dependent rule records for why we have not published a precise transitional-window rule from this provision: the text names two sub-populations whose 60-day count appears to start from different triggering events, and the relevant passage has some OCR-quality degradation in our extracted text). Commencement (Article 17, not separately quoted): in force from the date of Gazette publication, i.e. 2026-08-24.
Quoted passages (6)
Article 12 (amending Article 13(3))
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde Bir Yüksek Eğitim kurumunda Ön lisans, Lisans, Yüksek Lisans yada Doktora öğrenimi görecek olanlara öğrenim sürelerine göre ve her defasında en fazla 1 (bir) yıllık süre ile verilen Öğrenci ikamet izni.
Translation: “A student residence permit granted, according to study length, for a maximum of one year at a time, to those who will pursue associate, bachelor's, master's or doctoral study at a higher-education institution in the TRNC.”
Article 14 (amending Article 20(6)-(7))
(6) Öğrenci ikamet izni başlama tarihinden itibaren üniversite her (3) üç ayda bir öğrencinin durumunu (aktif, pasif, kayıt dondurma, kayıt silme) web servis ile GöçSis'e bildirir. Daire, bildirimde bulunmayan üniversiteye iletişim bilgisi üzerinden ikaz mesajı gönderir, ilgili öğrenciye de durumu bildirir; üniversitenin bildirmiş olduğu yabancılardan öğrenciliği devam etmeyenlerin öğrenci ikamet izni Daire tarafından iptal edilir. (7) Üniversite, öğrencinin ikamet izni üzerinden veya bir önceki Daire'ye bildirimi üzerinden üç ay geçmesine rağmen tekrardan öğrencinin durumunu Daire'ye bildirmemiş ise Daire öğrencinin ikamet iznini iptal edebilir.
Translation: “(6) From the student residence permit's start date, the university reports the student's status (active, passive, registration frozen, registration cancelled) to GöçSis by web service every three months. The Department sends a warning to a non-reporting university and informs the student; the Department cancels the student residence permit of any foreigner the university reports as no longer continuing their studies. (7) If the university has not reported the student's status again to the Department within three months of the student's permit date or its own last report, the Department may cancel the student's residence permit on that basis.”
Article 10 (replacing Article 10(3))
Ülkeye girişte verilen vize süresinin uzatılması başvuruları GöçSis üzerinden vize süresinin sona ermesinden en geç 5 (beş) iş günü öncesine kadar II. Cetvelde yer alan harç miktarı ödenmek suretiyle yapılır. Vize/e-Vize süresi uzatılmadığında veya iptal edildiğinde ödenen harç miktarı yabancıya iade edilmez.
Translation: “Applications to extend the visa period granted on entry to the country are made through GöçSis, at the latest 5 business days before the visa period ends, on payment of the fee amount set out in the Second Schedule. If the Visa/e-Visa period is not extended, or is cancelled, the fee amount paid is not refunded to the foreigner.”
Article 11(1) (repealing Article 12(1)(p))
Esas Tüzük, 12'nci maddesinin (1)'nci fıkrasının (p) bendi kaldırılmak suretiyle değiştirilir.
Translation: “The Principal Regulation's Article 12, paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (p) is amended by being removed.”
Article 3 (inserting a new Article 4(2)(d): passport-validity condition for unrepresented-country students/workers)
Esas Tüzük, 4'üncü maddesinin (2)'nci fıkrasının (c) bendinden hemen sonra aşağıdaki yeni (d) bendi konmak suretiyle değiştirilir. "(d) Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde elçilik, konsolosluk veya temsilciliği olmayan ülke yurttaşlarından Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde öğrenim görecek veya çalışacak olan yabancılardan en az 24 (yirmi dört) ay geçerli pasaport süresine sahip olmaları koşulu aranır."
Translation: “The Principal Regulation is amended by inserting the following new sub-paragraph (d) immediately after Article 4(2)(c). "(d) Foreigners who are citizens of a country with no embassy, consulate or representation in the TRNC, and who will study or work in the TRNC, are required to hold a passport valid for at least 24 months."”
Birinci Cetvel / First Schedule (Madde 30) and İkinci Cetvel / Second Schedule (Madde 10), effective 24 August 2026 — visually confirmed from the rendered page image, not from raw text extraction alone, after the initial machine extraction was found to have scrambled the table's columns
BİRİNCİ CETVEL (Madde 30). Columns: İkamet İzni Süresi | İkamet İzni Harcı | Gecikmeli Başvuru Harcı | Geriye Dönük İzin Harcı. Kısa Dönem İkamet İzni / Aile İkamet İzni (same fee rows for both): 6 ayı geçmeyen: 2,000.-TL / 3,000.-TL; 6 aydan 12 aya kadar: 4,000.-TL / 6,000.-TL; 12 aydan 24 aya kadar: 8,000.-TL / 12,000.-TL; 24 aydan 36 aya kadar: 12,000.-TL / 18,000.-TL; 36 aydan 48 aya kadar: 16,000.-TL / 24,000.-TL; 120 ay: 40,000.-TL. Geriye Dönük İzin Harcı (backdated-permit fee), spanning these tiers: Aylık 1,000.00 TL. Öğrenci İkamet İzni: 6 ayı geçmeyen: 1,000.-TL / -; 6 aydan 12 aya kadar: 1,500.00TL / -; 12 aydan 24 aya kadar: 3,000.-TL / - (no late-application or backdated fee for student permits). İKİNCİ CETVEL (Madde 10). Vize Uzatma Harcı: Günlük Vize: 20.00 TL.
Translation: “FIRST SCHEDULE (Article 30). Columns: Residence Permit Duration | Residence Permit Fee | Late Application Fee | Backdated Permit Fee. Short-Term Residence Permit / Family Residence Permit (identical fee rows for both categories): not exceeding 6 months: 2,000 TL / 3,000 TL; 6 to 12 months: 4,000 TL / 6,000 TL; 12 to 24 months: 8,000 TL / 12,000 TL; 24 to 36 months: 12,000 TL / 18,000 TL; 36 to 48 months: 16,000 TL / 24,000 TL; 120 months: 40,000 TL (no late fee shown for this tier). Backdated Permit Fee, applying across these tiers: 1,000 TL per month. Student Residence Permit: not exceeding 6 months: 1,000 TL / none; 6 to 12 months: 1,500 TL / none; 12 to 24 months: 3,000 TL / none (no late-application or backdated fee applies to student permits). SECOND SCHEDULE (Article 10). Visa Extension Fee: daily visa rate: 20 TL.”
Used by
- rules: Residence-permit and visa-extension fees, effective 24 August 2026 · Student residence permit: one year at a time · A student's residence permit can be cancelled over a university's non-reporting · 24-month passport validity required for students/workers from unrepresented countries (2026) · UNHCR protection-document holders no longer exempt from needing a residence permit · Visa extension fee is not refunded if the extension is refused or the visa is cancelled · Visa extension: online application at least five business days before expiry
- claims: The same amendment that repealed the UNHCR protection-document residence-permit exemption (A.E.784/2026, Geçici Madde 1) gives people who held that exemption, or whose application for it was still pending, a 60-day window to apply instead for a Humanitarian residence permit. Whether that 60-day count runs uniformly from the amendment's own commencement (2026-08-24, which would close the window around 2026-10-23) or separately for each person, from their own earlier receipt of an exemption certificate, is not established by the text NCR has read: the extracted passage is OCR-degraded at exactly this point, and a second, careful manual re-read (2026-09-20) left both readings open. Anyone this may affect should confirm their own specific deadline directly with the Immigration Department rather than rely on either reading.
- regulatory events: Student residence permits are cut to one year and visa extensions move online
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src-gazette-2026-154-ae784-2026 - A.E.808/2026, a transitional (Değişiklik) amendment to the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation granting a 15-day visa-penalty exemption to travellers affected by the 30 August 2026 Filo Jet sinking (within Official Gazette No. 160 of 31 August 2026)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.808/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 160, EK III, 31 Ağustos 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 31 August 2026 · accessed 18 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Geçici Madde 1, the instrument's only substantive provision.
Reading note: The PDF and extracted text were already held from an earlier reading but had no source record until now.
Editorial note: Read in full, 18 September 2026, extending an earlier investigation into the residence-regulation amendment chain, which had already identified this instrument's existence and substance but had not yet produced a registered source record for it. Narrow and time-limited: a 15-day visa-penalty exemption tied specifically to the 30 August 2026 Filo Jet ferry sinking near Kyrenia, for an identifiable, narrow group of affected travellers. This should not be encoded as if it were a general rule.
Quoted passages (1)
Geçici Madde 1 ("Vize Cezası Uygulanmayacak Yabancılar")
30 Ağustos 2026 tarihinde Girne Turizm Limanından Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'ne gitmek üzere hareket eden Filo Denizciliğe ait Filo Jet isimli tarifeli yolcu gemisinin alabora olup batması sonucunda deniz seferlerinin yapılamamasından dolayı, gemi yolcu bileti sahibi yabancı uyruklu kişilerin ülkeden çıkış yapamamaları nedeniyle doğan veya doğacak olan mağduriyetlerin önlenmesi amacıyla; bu (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü yürürlüğe girmeden önce Filo Jet isimli gemide yolcu olarak bulunan ve sağ kurtulan yabancılar ile aynı tarihte Girne Turizm Limanından çıkış işlemleri iptal edilen diğer yolcu gemilerinden bilet satın almış olan yabancılar ve gemi şirketlerinden ileri tarihli yolcu bileti satın almış olan yabancılar, işbu Tüzük yürürlüğe girdiği tarihten itibaren 15 (on beş) gün süre boyunca ülkeye girişte verilen vize süresi, ikamet izni, çalışma izni, iş kurma izni ve muafiyet izni süresi hitam bulmuş olsa dahi ülkede yasal izinli bulunmuş sayılıp, belirtilen kurallara uyulması koşuluyla vize cezasından muaf tutulurlar.
Translation: “To prevent hardship arising or that would arise from foreign nationals holding a ticket for the Filo Denizcilik passenger ship "Filo Jet" being unable to leave the country because the ship capsized and sank on 30 August 2026 while sailing from Girne Tourism Port to the Republic of Türkiye: foreigners who were passengers on the Filo Jet and survived, foreigners who had bought tickets on other passenger ships whose departures from Girne Tourism Port were cancelled the same day because of the accident, and foreigners who had bought forward-dated tickets from the shipping companies, are — for 15 days from this (Amendment) Regulation's entry into force — deemed to remain legally present in the country even if their visa period, residence permit, work permit, business-establishment permit or exemption period on entry has expired, and are exempt from the visa penalty, provided the stated conditions are met.”
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src-gazette-2026-160-ae808-2026 - A.E.830/2026, a transitional (Değişiklik) amendment to the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation granting a fee-free, renewable residence-permit exemption to those pursuing TRNC litigation over the 30 August 2026 Filo Jet sinking (within Official Gazette No. 173 of 14 September 2026)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.830/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 173, EK III, 14 Eylül 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 14 September 2026 · accessed 18 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Geçici Madde 1's opening recital in full; the operative duration/renewal terms read but not independently re-verified due to OCR degradation in the local extraction.
Reading note: The PDF and extracted text were already held from an earlier reading but had no source record until now. readState is read-partial, not read-full, specifically because of the extraction-quality caveat above — this is an honest reflection of what was actually confirmed, not the whole instrument's content.
Editorial note: Read 18 September 2026, extending an earlier investigation into the residence-regulation amendment chain, which had already identified this instrument's existence and substance (row: new Geçici Madde, A.E.830) but had not yet produced a registered source record for it. The extracted local text for this instrument's operative paragraphs (the exemption's exact duration and the TC Lefkoşa Embassy verification mechanism) has meaningful OCR/extraction degradation — words are broken and reordered across several lines — so only the clean opening recital is quoted directly here; the operative terms (6 months, renewable once to 12 months for those whose cases are confirmed to the Department by the Turkish Embassy in Nicosia) are taken from an earlier reading, not independently re-verified word-for-word against this degraded extraction. A cleaner re-extraction (a different PDF-to-text pass, or a manual read of the PDF itself) would be needed before treating the exact duration figures as independently re-confirmed. Narrow and time-limited: tied specifically to the 30 August 2026 Filo Jet ferry sinking, for an identifiable, narrow group. This should not be encoded as if it were a general rule.
Quoted passages (1)
Geçici Madde 1, opening recital
Bu (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü yürürlüğe girmeden önce, 30 Ağustos 2026 tarihinde Girne Turizm Limanından Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'ne gitmek üzere hareket eden Filo Denizciliğe ait Filo Jet isimli tarifeli yolcu gemisinin alabora olup batması sonucunda vefat eden yabancı uyruklu kişilerin aile fertleri veya yakınları, kazada kayıp olanların aileleri veya yakınları ile kazazede olan yabancı uyruklu kişiler tarafından ülkemizdeki Mahkemeler nezdinde dava açılıp, açılan davalarda hazır bulunabilmeleri ve dava süreçlerinin sağlıklı bir şekilde yürütülmesi amacı ile...
Translation: “So that the family members or relatives of foreign nationals who died, the families or relatives of those missing, and foreign nationals who survived, as a result of the Filo Denizcilik passenger ship "Filo Jet" capsizing and sinking on 30 August 2026 while sailing from Girne Tourism Port to the Republic of Türkiye, may bring and be present at proceedings before the courts of this country and those proceedings may run properly...”
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src-gazette-2026-173-ae830-2026 - A.E.88/2020, amending Articles 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation and its Geçici Madde 1 (within Official Gazette No. 22 of 11 February 2020)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.88/2020 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 22, EK III, 11 Şubat 2020)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 11 February 2020 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Article 11 (amending Article 16(1)(a),(c),(d),(e), 16(2)(ç), and deleting the then-existing 16(2)(e) and 16(3)) read in full and line by line..
Reading note: The instrument's remaining amendments (Articles 2, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 15(5), Geçici Madde 1) have not yet been read.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, tracing the amendment chain behind Article 14(2)(b)(iv) back through NCR's own Gazette index. This is the earliest version of (iv)/(v) independently obtained so far; it itself replaces an earlier, pre-2020 text not yet obtained. It establishes that from 11 February 2020, the regulation required a titled property owner to show monthly income of at least one minimum wage — the opposite of the current (2025-onward) text, and notably not the 'three minimum wages' figure the Immigration Department's own website currently states (see src-muhaceret-property-residence). Correction, 19 September 2026: an earlier version of this note claimed Article 10(1)'s Article 15(8) wording was 'materially identical' to the current 2026 consolidated text — this was wrong, and has been corrected here. Independently re-verified directly against the current text (src-mevzuat-residence-regulation-2026-09, which carries a '6(2).A.E.350/2021' marker exactly at this paragraph): the current text has removed the clause quoted here ('veya Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde Bakanlıkça kabul edilen özel bir sağlık sigortası yaptırmamış olan' — 'or [who have] not taken out a private health insurance policy accepted by the Ministry in the TRNC'). This means a Ministry-accepted private health insurance policy was a recognised alternative to the Health Fund premium from this instrument's commencement on 11 February 2020 until removed by A.E.350/2021 (12 May 2021), and is not currently recognised as such. Commencement (Article 20, not separately quoted): 'Bu Tüzük, Resmi Gazete'de yayımlandığı tarihte yürürlüğe girer' — in force on the date of Gazette publication, i.e. 11 February 2020. Article 11's quoted passage above is the earliest independently obtained wording of Article 16(1)(a),(d),(e) and 16(2)(ç) — identical to the current (2026) consolidated text for those four provisions, meaning they have not changed since 11 February 2020. (c), by contrast, differs from the current text: the 2020 wording has only the under-12-children condition, while the current text adds an alternative 'spouse is pregnant, proved by medical report' condition — meaning (c) was further amended after 2020 (the current text's marker on (c) also cites A.E.350/2021, not independently obtained — see src-gazette-2021-106-ae350-2021 — but consistent with this being the source of that later change). This instrument also confirms Article 16(2)(e) and 16(3) existed in a different, now-superseded form before 11 February 2020 and were deleted/renumbered here — that pre-2020 original wording has not been obtained.
Quoted passages (3)
Article 9(1), replacing Article 14(2)(b)(iv)-(v) (the earliest version of the property-owner income clause NCR has independently obtained)
(iv) Taşınmaz malın başvuran adına tapu koçanı bulunması halinde, aylık en az bir asgari ücret tutarında gelir sahibi olması; taşınmaz malın ödemeleri devam eden bir sözleşme ile alınmış olması halinde, sözleşmedeki aylık taksit tutarına ilaveten aylık en az bir asgari ücret tutarında gelir sahibi olması. (v) Bu İkamet izni türü, bu Tüzükte aksine bir kural bulunup bulunmadığına bakılmaksızın, ilk başvuruda bir yıllık, daha sonra ise kendi adına tapu almış olması şartıyla en fazla üçer yıllık olarak düzenlenir.
Translation: “(iv) Where the title deed to the immovable property is registered in the applicant's own name: having a monthly income of at least one minimum wage; where the immovable property was acquired under a contract with ongoing instalment payments: having a monthly income of at least one minimum wage in addition to the monthly instalment amount under the contract. (v) This type of residence permit shall be issued, regardless of any contrary rule elsewhere in this Regulation, for one year on first application, and subsequently for up to three years at a time, provided the applicant has obtained title in their own name.”
Article 10(1), replacing Article 15(8)
(8) Herhangi bir ikamet izni türü için başvuru yapan ve sosyal sigorta kapsamında kamu sağlık hizmetlerinden yararlanma hakkı olmayan veya Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde Bakanlıkça kabul edilen özel bir sağlık sigortası yaptırmamış olan yabancılardan, Sağlık Fonu Yasası uyarınca öngörülen prim ödeneği tahsil edilir. Ödenecek olan prim miktarı, talep edilen veya verilmesi tasarlanan İkamet izni süresine göre ayarlanır.
Translation: “(8) A Health Fund Law premium is collected from a foreigner applying for any type of residence permit who has no right to public health services under social insurance and has not taken out a private health insurance policy accepted by the Ministry in the TRNC. The premium amount is scaled to the length of the residence permit requested or intended.”
Article 11, replacing Article 16(1)(a),(c),(d),(e) and 16(2)(ç), and deleting the then-existing 16(2)(e) and 16(3) with renumbering
(1) Esas Tüzük, 16'ncı maddesinin (1)'inci fıkrasının (a), (c), (d) ve (e) bentleri kaldırılmak ve yerine aşağıdaki yeni (a), (c), (d) ve (e) bentleri konmak suretiyle değiştirilir: "(a) Destekleyicinin yabancı eşine veya partnerine. (c) Destekleyici ve eğer varsa eşinin çalışıyor olması ve on iki yaşından küçük çocuklarının olması koşuluyla, destekleyicinin veya eşinin anne ve babasına. (d) Destekleyicisi öğrenci ikamet izinli olanlar hariç olmak üzere, yirmi beş yaşını doldurmamış olan bekar çocuklarına ve herhangi bir yaştaki bekar kız çocuklarına. (e) Yurttaş olan destekleyicinin kendi anne ve babası ile, yurttaş olan destekleyicinin eşinin 60 yaşından büyük anne ve babasına." (2) Esas Tüzük, 16'ncı maddesinin (2)'nci fıkrasının (ç) bendi kaldırılmak ve yerine aşağıdaki yeni (ç) bendi konmak suretiyle değiştirilir: "(ç) Çalışma ve iş kurma izni sahipleri," (3) Esas Tüzük, 16'ncı maddesinin (2)'nci fıkrasının (e) bendi ile (3)'üncü fıkrası kaldırılmak ve takip eden fıkraları yeniden numaralandırılmak suretiyle değiştirilir.
Translation: “(1) Article 16(1)(a),(c),(d),(e) of the Principal Regulation are replaced with new (a),(c),(d),(e): "(a) To the sponsor's foreign spouse or partner. (c) To the parents of the sponsor or spouse, provided the sponsor and, if applicable, spouse are working and have children under twelve. (d) To unmarried children under 25 — except where the sponsor is themselves a student-permit holder — and to unmarried daughters of any age. (e) To a citizen sponsor's own parents, and to a citizen sponsor's spouse's parents over 60." (2) Article 16(2)(ç) is replaced: "(ç) Work and business-establishment permit holders," (3) The then-existing Article 16(2)(e) and 16(3) are deleted and the following paragraphs renumbered.”
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src-gazette-2020-022-ae88-2020 - A.E.932/2026, amending Articles 12, 13 and 14 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation (within Official Gazette No. 193 of 2 October 2026)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.932/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 193, 2 Ekim 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 2 October 2026 · accessed 4 October 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Ü(K-I)2070-2026 / A.E.932/2026 in full, Turkish — the Council of Ministers decision text and the amendment's full text (Articles 1-5 and the transitional article)..
Reading note: Found via the standing weekly Gazette watch (docs/decree-cycle-checklist.md) after the Founder asked for a sweep of recent regulatory changes. The rest of Gazette issue 193 (routine individual permits and personnel matters) was not read.
Editorial note: Official Gazette No. 193 (02.10.2026) is a large, mostly routine issue (individual property-purchase-permit grants, a student-readmission decision, a road-registration matter, several Ministry of Interior/Finance personnel decisions); this source record's scope is Ü(K-I)2070-2026 / A.E.932/2026 only — the amendment to the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation, read in full. It amends Articles 12(c), 13(2) and 14(2)(b)(iv) of the Principal Regulation and adds one transitional provision. The Article 14(2)(b)(iv) change is the most consequential for NCR: it replaces the flat, non-tiered five-year/no-income rule NCR had confirmed current through 22 September 2026 (see the Conflict record property-owner-residence-income-and-duration) with a property-value-tiered rule — still no income condition either way, but now 10 years at or above £300,000 and 5 years below it. The Article 13(2) change (Family Residence Permit default duration, five years to ten) directly updates the figure in the rule record family-residence-permit-duration. Commencement (Article 5): in force from the date of Gazette publication, i.e. 2026-10-02.
Quoted passages (4)
Article 2 (inserting a new Article 12(c)(iv): residence-permit exemption for children under 6)
Esas Tüzük 12'nci maddesinin (c) fıkrasının (iii) alt bendinden hemen sonra aşağıdaki yeni (iv) alt bendi konmak suretiyle değiştirilir. "(iv) 6 (altı) yaşını doldurmamış olan yabancılar."
Translation: “The Principal Regulation's Article 12, paragraph (c), is amended by inserting the following new sub-paragraph (iv) immediately after sub-paragraph (iii). "(iv) Foreigners who have not yet reached six years of age."”
Article 3 (replacing Article 13(2): Family Residence Permit default duration)
Esas Tüzük 13'üncü maddesinin (2)'nci fıkrası kaldırılmak ve yerine aşağıdaki yeni (2)'nci fıkra konmak suretiyle değiştirilir. "(2) Aksine bir kural bulunmadığı takdirde, her defasında en fazla 10 (on) yıllık süreyle verilen Aile İkamet İzni."
Translation: “The Principal Regulation's Article 13, paragraph (2), is removed and replaced by the following new paragraph (2). "(2) Unless otherwise provided, the Family Residence Permit is granted for a maximum of 10 (ten) years at a time."”
Article 4 (replacing Article 14(2)(b)(iv): titled-owner property-linked residence permit, now tiered by property value)
Esas Tüzük 14'üncü maddesinin (2)'nci fıkrasının (b) bendinin (iv)'üncü alt bendi kaldırılmak ve yerine aşağıdaki yeni (iv)'üncü alt bendi konmak suretiyle değiştirilir. "(iv) Satın almış olduğu taşınmaz malların başvuran adına tapu koçanı bulunması ve satın almış olduğu taşınmaz malların toplam değerinin 300.000 Stg veya muadili para cinsi karşılığı veya üzeri olması halinde gelir şartı aranmaksızın ikamet izni 10 (on) yıl olarak düzenlenir. Satın almış olduğu taşınmaz malların toplam değeri 300.000 Stg veya muadili para cinsi karşılığının altında olması halinde gelir şartı aranmaksızın ikamet izni 5 (beş) yıl olarak düzenlenir."
Translation: “The Principal Regulation's Article 14, paragraph (2), sub-paragraph (b), sub-paragraph (iv), is removed and replaced by the following new sub-paragraph (iv). "(iv) Where the applicant holds the title deed (koçan) for the immovable property purchased, registered in their own name, and the total value of that property is £300,000 sterling or the equivalent in another currency, or more, the residence permit is issued for 10 (ten) years, with no income condition required. Where the total value of that property is below £300,000 sterling or the equivalent in another currency, the residence permit is issued for 5 (five) years, with no income condition required."”
Geçici Madde 1 / Transitional Article 1 (fine waiver for children under 6 already in the country)
"6 Yaşın Altındaki Yabancıların Durumu. Bu (Değişiklik) tüzüğü yürürlüğe girdiği tarihte, ülkede bulunan 6 (altı) yaşını doldurmamış olan yabancıların izinsiz kaldıkları döneme ilişkin olarak aleyhlerinde tahakkuk etmiş olan para cezalarından, bu tüzükte aksine kural bulunup bulunmadığına bakılmaksızın muaf tutulurlar."
Translation: “"Status of Foreigners Under 6 Years of Age. Foreigners who have not yet reached six years of age and who are present in the country on the date this (Amendment) Regulation enters into force are exempt from any fines accrued against them for their period of unauthorised stay, regardless of any other rule in this Regulation."”
Used by
- rules: Family Residence Permit: up to ten years by default, capped at the sponsor's own remaining status · Current Immigration Department guidance: one year at a time for the first three years, then two years
- regulatory events: Titled-owner residence permit duration now depends on property value; Family Residence Permit default rises to ten years
- conflicts: Does a titled property owner need income for a property-linked residence permit, and for how long is it issued?
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src-gazette-2026-193-ae932-2026 - A.E.988/2024, amending Articles 4, 14, 25 and 28A of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation (within Official Gazette No. 243 of 27 November 2024)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü, A.E.988/2024 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 243, EK III, 27 Kasım 2024)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 27 November 2024 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full instrument (6 articles plus one transitional provision).
Reading note: Read specifically to resolve which sub-clause of Article 14(2)(b) this instrument amends, given an ambiguous marginal-marker attribution in the 2026 consolidated regulation text.
Editorial note: Independently fetched and read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. Read in full (a short, 6-article instrument): Article 2 (new Article 4(2)(c), an entry rule for existing work/residence-permit holders), Article 3 (this quoted passage — Article 14(2)(b)(v) only), Article 4 (Article 25(4), backdated family-permit applications), Article 5 (new Article 28A(9), a 90-day visa rule for certain categories), and Geçici Madde 1 (a narrow, time-limited rule for 2023-2024 Ministry of Education-registered students). Confirms this instrument amended sub-clause (v) (the stamped sale-contract route's duration) but did NOT touch sub-clause (iv) (the titled-owner clause at the centre of this research) at all — a correction to a related finding's original citation, which had attributed A.E.988/2024 to (iv) based on an ambiguous PDF-extraction ordering of marginal amendment markers in the consolidated regulation text; this reading of the instrument itself resolves that ambiguity. Commencement (Article 6, not separately quoted): 'Bu Tüzük, Resmi Gazete'de yayımlandığı tarihten başlayarak yürürlüğe girer' — in force from the date of Gazette publication, i.e. 2024-11-27.
Quoted passages (1)
Article 3, replacing Article 14(2)(b)(v) only
(v) Bu ikamet izni türü bu Tüzükte aksine bir kural bulup bulunmadığına bakılmaksızın, satış sözleşmesi ile yapılan müracaatlarda 1(bir) yıl, tapu almış olması şartıyla 5(beş) yıl olarak düzenlenir.
Translation: “(v) This type of residence permit is issued, irrespective of any rule to the contrary elsewhere in this Regulation, for 1 year in the case of applications made under a sale contract, and for 5 years where the applicant has obtained title.”
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src-gazette-2024-243-ae988-2024 - Certification Officers Law, No. 54/2024
Tasdik Memurları Yasası, 54/2024
Certification Officers, TRNC (Tasdik Memurları) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full 18-page law read..
Reading note: A brand-new 2024 instrument, replacing the prior Fasıl 39 regime.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026 — the single strongest primary-source find in this domain. Downloaded (1.1MB) and text-extracted (30,870 characters); read in full, all 18 pages. This brand-new 2024 law replaced the old Fasıl 39 notarial regime. Key finding: the TRNC has no notary in the continental sense — Certification Officers' powers are narrower (signature/seal authentication only, requiring the signer's physical presence), and Article 22 explicitly limits recognition of their certification to documents used before TRNC or Turkish authorities, saying nothing about recognition anywhere else. This is directly relevant to (and consistent with) NCR's existing education-domain finding that TRNC-Turkey document recognition runs on a separate track from everywhere else (the TRNC is not a Hague Apostille party).
Quoted passages (5)
Article 10(1) (scope of certification)
Tasdik memuru... bir belgeye atılan imza veya basılan mührün, imzayı atan veya mührü basan kişiye ait olduğunu tasdik eder.
Translation: “A certification officer certifies only that a signature or seal on a document belongs to the person who applied it.”
Article 14(1) (physical presence required)
Hiçbir tasdik memuru, herhangi bir belgeyi kendi huzurunda imzalanmadıkça veya mühürlenmedikçe herhangi bir imza veya mührü tasdik edemez.
Translation: “No certification officer may certify a signature or seal unless the document was signed or sealed in their own physical presence.”
Article 15(4) (invalidity for non-compliance)
[A document prepared without complying with the Stamp Law (Pul Yasası) and this Law's rules 'geçerli sayılmaz' — is not considered valid.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 22 (jurisdictional scope of certification)
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti veya Türkiye Cumhuriyeti makamları nezdinde işleme konacak veya ibraz edilecek evrak için münhasıran bu Yasa kuralları uyarınca tasdik olunan evrak, muteber addolunabilir.
Translation: “Documents certified exclusively under this Law's rules may be considered valid for documents to be processed or submitted before TRNC or Turkish Republic authorities.”
Article 16 (fee)
[Statutory fee: 1/70 of the monthly gross minimum wage per signature/seal certification, higher off-site or for documents of 5+ pages.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text; wage-indexed, therefore volatile.”
Used by
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src-tasdik-memurlari-law-54-2024 - Companies Law, Cap. 113 (as amended by Laws 28/74, 7/77, 30/83, 28/87, 65/89, 56/91, 42/97, 29/2003 and 35/2007)
Fasıl 113, Şirketler Yasası
Official Receiver and Registrar of Companies, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Part V winding-up articles (203-328) read directly: the three winding-up methods (203), solvency-declaration mechanics (261-266, 274), preferential payments (300), the Bankruptcy Law cross-reference (299), fraudulent trading and misfeasance (311-312), contract disclaimer (304), capital reduction (64-65), and striking-off/restoration (326-328)..
Reading note: First dedicated read of the Companies Law's own winding-up part; previously only the striking-off/restoration mechanism (Art. 326-328) had been read, without the surrounding formal winding-up context distinguishing it from Part V generally.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial: downloaded from mevzuat.mahkemeler.net (linked from RKMMD's own official MEVZUAT page), 329 pages / around 117,000 words, converted to text. Not read cover to cover: closely read were Article 2 (definitions), Articles 13-16 (incorporation, minimum capital), Articles 29-30 (private company definition), Articles 118-122 (annual report), Articles 327-328 (striking off), and Articles 346-353 in full (overseas/foreign companies part). The remaining roughly 300 pages (accounts, winding-up, debentures, prospectuses) were only skimmed via the table of contents. No requirement for a local TRNC-resident shareholder, director or secretary was found in ordinary Cap 113 incorporation — a negative finding (no rule found), not confirmation that no such rule exists. Article 2's own definition of 'foreign person' is not a simple citizenship test: it turns on Turkish-Cypriot-community membership and origin, wording that touches Cyprus's community and political history directly; this finding is held for legal review before it informs any public statement. A separate defined term, 'karma şirket' (mixed company, for companies with foreign or third-state shareholders registered with the TRNC Registrar), appears in Article 2 with no operative provision found elsewhere in the statute using it — possibly dead-letter, or governed by an unlocated Tüzük.
Quoted passages (6)
Article 2 (definition of "Mukayyitlik"/Registrar)
'Mukayyitlik' veya 'Şirketler Mukayyitliği', Resmi Kabz Memurluğu ve Mukayyitlik Dairesini anlatır.
Translation: “'Registry' or 'Registrar of Companies' means the Official Receiver's Office and Registry Department.”
Article 14(2)-(3) (minimum share capital)
Pay sermayesi olan ve kayıtlı ve taahhüt edilmiş sermayesi 15.000.-YTL (On Beş Bin Yeni Türk Lirası)'nın altında bulunan herhangi bir şirket tescil edilemez.
Translation: “No company having share capital, with registered and subscribed capital below 15,000 New Turkish Lira (YTL), may be registered. [Art. 14(3): the Council of Ministers may set a higher minimum capital, and make registration subject to its permission and conditions, for business sectors it declares subject to supervision to protect the public interest.]”
Article 29(1) (private company definition)
Translation: “A private company's articles must: (a) restrict the right to transfer shares; (b) limit membership to 50 (excluding employee/ex-employee members); (c) prohibit any invitation to the public to subscribe for shares or debentures.”
Article 347(1) and proviso (foreign/overseas company branch — Council of Ministers approval)
Ancak, bu fıkra uyarınca tescil isteyen şirketlerin, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde işyeri veya iş kurmak için Bakanlar Kurulundan önceden izin almış olmaları zorunludur. Yabancı şirketler, böyle bir izin almadıkça Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde iş veya işyeri kuramaz ve tescil edilemezler.
Translation: “However, companies seeking registration under this subsection must have obtained prior permission from the Council of Ministers to establish a place of business or business in the TRNC. Foreign companies may not establish a business or place of business in the TRNC, and may not be registered, without such permission.”
Article 327 (striking off for inactivity; 20-year restoration window)
Translation: “The Registrar may strike off a non-responsive/inactive company's name after prescribed notices and a Gazette notice, deeming it dissolved; members/creditors may apply to Court within 20 years to have it restored if they can show it was in fact trading or that restoration would be just.”
Article 2 (definition of "foreign person" — flagged for legal review, not built into public content without review)
'Üçüncü Devlet Uyruklu Kişi', 'Yabancı Kişi' veya 'yabancı', Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti yurttaşı Kıbrıs Türk Cemaatı mensubu ve Kıbrıs Türk asıllı olmayan kişileri anlatır...
Translation: “'Third-state-national person', 'foreign person' or 'foreign' means persons who are not TRNC citizens who are members of the Turkish Cypriot Community and of Turkish Cypriot origin [and also includes any company/partnership/firm in which such persons are exclusively partners/shareholders]. (Added by Law 28/87.)”
Used by
- rules: Capital reduction requires Court confirmation and is distinct from a dividend · TRNC company winding-up: three legally distinct routes · A foreign company's TRNC branch requires prior Council of Ministers permission · A TRNC private company's constitution restricts who its shares may be sold to · RKMMD is the statutory Registrar of Companies
- claims: Administrative striking-off of an inactive TRNC company, with a 20-year restoration window, is structurally and procedurally distinct from formal Court or voluntary winding-up and dissolution, which allows Court-ordered reinstatement only within a 2-year annulment window. · TRNC's Companies Law does not itself set out full creditor-priority rules for an insolvent winding-up beyond a limited preferential-debts list; it defers detailed priority to the separate Bankruptcy Law (Cap. 5), now identified but only partially read. · TRNC's statutory bases for extending liability beyond ordinary limited liability are fraudulent trading, where a Court can declare a knowing participant personally liable without limit, and a misfeasance/breach-of-trust summary remedy allowing the Court to order a director or officer to repay or compensate the company for misapplied funds or a breach of duty — not a general doctrinal 'veil-piercing' test. · On a TRNC company winding-up, specific tax debts, capped employee wages, holiday pay and workmen's-compensation amounts are paid in priority to general unsecured creditors and ahead of floating-charge holders. · In a TRNC company winding-up, the liquidator may, with Court leave and within 12 months, disclaim an onerous or unprofitable contract; the other party then ranks as an unsecured creditor for any resulting loss.
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src-companies-law-fasil-113 - Condominium Ownership and Construction Servitude Law, No. 35/2010
35/2010 Sayılı Kat Mülkiyeti ve Kat İrtifakı Yasası (40/2024 ve 49/2026 Sayılı Değişiklik Yasaları İle Değiştirilmiş ve Birleştirilmiş Şekli)
Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi), TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Table of contents mapped in full (55 articles + 1 transitional); Articles 17-28 (owners' rights and duties, common expenses, insurance, forced-sale mechanism) and 29-38 (assembly, management plan, meetings, manager appointment and duties) read in full. Articles 1-16 (definitions, general condominium/servitude establishment rules) and 44-55 (major works, termination) read only by table-of-contents/opening-line skim..
Reading note: Not read cover to cover; a further pass on Articles 44-51 (new construction, major transactional decisions, termination) would be needed for full domain closure.
Editorial note: Fetched and read directly by NCR Editorial, 20 September 2026 from mevzuat.gov.ct.tr, verified by exact byte-count match against the server's own Content-Length header before extraction. Consolidated text current through amending Law 49/2026 (a very recent amendment). Clean, complete extraction — 1,539 lines, 55 substantive articles plus one transitional article, table of contents fully mapped; Articles 20-28 (owners' duties, common expenses, insurance, forced-sale mechanism) and Articles 29-38 (owners' assembly, management plan, meetings/voting, manager appointment/duties) read in full; Articles 44-51 (major works, termination of condominium status) read only by opening-line skim, not in full. HIGH VALUE: Article 23(1) directly answers, from the specific site-management law itself (not merely the general Insurance Services Law's unused compulsory-insurance power, found in an earlier reading), that main-building insurance is an OWNERS'-ASSEMBLY DECISION, not an automatic legal mandate — this corroborates and sharpens the earlier reading's related finding with a more directly on-point primary source. Article 24(2)'s registered 'memorandum' charge for unpaid common-expense debts is a genuine buyer-due-diligence finding, relevant to an existing related record check.
Quoted passages (8)
Article 22(1) (common expense contribution)
Kat maliklerinden her biri aralarında başka türlü anlaşma olmadıkça: (A) Kapıcı, kaloriferci, yönetici aylığı, bahçıvan ve bekçi giderlerine ve bunlar için toplanacak avansa eşit olarak; (B) Ana taşınmazın sigorta primlerine ve bütün ortak kullanım alanlarının bakım, koruma güçlendirme ve onarım giderleri gibi diğer giderlere ve ortak tesislerin işletme giderlerine ve benzeri giderler için toplanacak avansa kendi arsa payı oranında, katılmakla yükümlüdürler. (C) Kat Malikleri, ortak kullanım alanı veya tesisler üzerindeki kullanma hakkından vazgeçmek veya kendi bağımsız bölümünün durumu dolayısıyla bunlardan faydalanmaya lüzum ve ihtiyaç bulunmadığını ileri sürmek suretiyle bu gider ve avans payını ödemekten kaçınamaz.
Translation: “Unless otherwise agreed among themselves, each unit owner must contribute: (A) equally, to concierge, boiler-operator, manager-salary, gardener and watchman costs and the advance collected for them; (B) in proportion to their own land share, to the main building's insurance premiums and other costs such as maintenance/preservation/strengthening/repair of all common-use areas, and operating costs of shared facilities and similar expenses, and the advance collected for them. (C) An owner cannot avoid paying this expense/advance share by waiving their right to use the common areas or by arguing they have no need to benefit from them due to their own unit's situation.”
Article 23(1)-(2), (5) (building insurance — assembly-discretionary, not automatic)
(1) Ana taşınmazın, kat malikleri kurulunca tayin edilen değer üzerinden, sigorta edilmesi, kat malikleri kurulunca kararlaştırılabilir. (2) Sigorta yapılması halinde kat malikleri, sigorta giderlerine, arsa payları oranında katılmakla yükümlüdürler. (5) Kat malikleri, ana taşınmazın sigortasıyla giderilemeyecek olan zararlarını karşılamak üzere, kendi bağımsız bölümlerini ayrıca kendi ad ve hesaplarına sigorta ettirebilirler.
Translation: “(1) Insuring the main building, at a value set by the owners' assembly, MAY be decided by the owners' assembly [not automatic/mandatory]. (2) If insurance is taken out, owners must contribute to the insurance costs in proportion to their land share. (5) Owners may additionally insure their own unit, in their own name and account, to cover losses the main building's insurance would not make good.”
Article 24(1)-(3) (security for unpaid common-expense debts — joint/several liability, registered charge, creditor priority)
(1) Kat malikinin, bu Yasanın 22'nci maddesi uyarınca payına düşecek gider ve avans borcundan ve gecikme tazminatından, bağımsız bölümlerin birinde kira akdine, oturma hakkına (sükna hakkı) veya başka bir sebebe dayanarak devamlı bir şekilde faydalananlar da, kat maliki ile birlikte müştereken ve müteselsilen sorumludurlar. Ancak kiracının sorumluluğu, ödemekle yükümlü olduğu kira miktarı ile sınırlıdır. (2) Kat malikinin borcu... alınamazsa, mahkemece saptanan borcunu ödemeyen kat malikinin bağımsız bölümü üzerine, varsa yöneticinin veya kat maliklerinden birinin yazılı istemiyle bu borç tutarı için, hükümlü alacaklı lehine Kaza Tapu Dairesinde memorandum kaydedilir. (3) Kat maliklerinin, gider borcunu ödemeyen kat maliki veya diğer sorumlulardan, bu Yasanın 22'nci maddesinde belirtilen gider alacakları diğer alacaklara nazaran öncelikli alacaklardır.
Translation: “(1) A long-term tenant, right-of-habitation holder, or other continuous beneficiary of a unit is jointly and severally liable with the owner for that owner's share of common expenses/advances and late-payment damages under Article 22 — but a tenant's liability is capped at the rent they owe. (2) If the debt cannot be recovered [by ordinary means], a memorandum (charge) is registered at the District Land Registry against the defaulting owner's unit, in favour of the judgment creditor, for the debt amount, on the written request of the manager or another owner. (3) Common-expense debts owed under Article 22 have PRIORITY over other creditors' claims against the defaulting owner/other liable persons.”
Article 27(1), (3) (forced sale for persistent breach)
(1) Kat maliklerinden biri bu Yasa kuralları gereğince yerine getirmek zorunda olduğu borç ve yükümlülüklerini yerine getirmekten kaçınmak suretiyle diğer kat maliklerinin haklarını, onlar için çekilmez hale gelecek derecede ihlal ederse, onlar, o kat malikinin müstakil bölümü üzerindeki mülkiyet hakkının kendilerine devredilmesini ve/veya satılmasını mahkemeden isteyebilir. (3) Herhangi bir kat maliki: (A) Ortak giderlerden ve avanstan kendisine düşen borçları iki takvim yılı zarfında üç kez ödemekten kaçınırsa... (B) ...bu Yasada belirtilen borç ve yükümlülükleri yerine getirmemek suretiyle öteki kat maliklerinin haklarını ihlal etmekte devamlı olarak bir yıl süreyle ısrar ederse; (C) Kendi bağımsız bölümünü randevu evi veya kumarhane veya benzeri yer olarak kullanmak suretiyle ahlak ve adaba aykırı harekette bulunursa, yukarıdaki (1)'inci fıkra uyarınca çekilmezlik hallerinin varlığı kabul edilir.
Translation: “(1) If an owner's avoidance of their statutory duties violates other owners' rights to an unbearable degree, the other owners may ask the court to order transfer/sale of that owner's unit to them. (3) 'Unbearable' is deemed established if an owner: (A) refuses to pay their share of common expenses/advances three times within two calendar years [after a lawsuit cause arises]; (B) persistently, for one year, continues violating other owners' rights despite a court order; or (C) uses their unit as a brothel, gambling den or similar, contrary to morality.”
Article 36(1)-(3) (mandatory manager/management-committee appointment threshold)
(1) Kat malikleri, ana taşınmazın yönetimini kendi aralarından veya dışarıdan seçecekleri bir kimseye veya üç kişilik bir kurula verebilirler. Bu kimseye yönetici, kurula da yönetim kurulu denir. (2) Ana taşınmazın dörtten fazla bağımsız bölümü varsa, yönetici veya yönetim kurulunun atanması zorunludur. Ancak, bağımsız bölümlerin dört veya dörtten az olması halinde, kat maliklerinin yarıdan bir fazlasının istemi üzerine, yönetici veya yönetim kurulu atanması zorunludur. (3) Ana taşınmazın bütün bölümleri bir kişinin mülkiyetinde ise, malik, yasal olarak yönetici durumundadır.
Translation: “(1) Owners may entrust management to a person from among themselves or an outsider, or to a three-person committee. (2) If the building has MORE than four units, appointing a manager or management committee is MANDATORY. If it has four or fewer units, appointment becomes mandatory if more than half the owners request it. (3) If a single person owns all units, that owner is automatically the legal manager.”
Article 30(1), (3) (management plan is a binding contract on all owners)
(1) Yönetim planı, yönetim biçimini, kullanma amaç ve şeklini, yönetici ve denetçilerin alacakları ücreti ve yönetime ait diğer hususları düzenler. Yönetim planı, bütün kat maliklerini bağlayan bir sözleşme hükmündedir. (3) Yönetim planının değiştirilmesi için bütün kat maliklerinin üçte ikisinin oyu şarttır.
Translation: “(1) The management plan regulates the form of management, the purpose and manner of use, manager/auditor remuneration, and other management matters. The management plan has the force of a contract binding all unit owners. (3) Changing the management plan requires the votes of two-thirds of all owners.”
Article 26(1)-(2) (commercial/professional use restriction on residentially-designated units)
(1) Ana taşınmazın tapu kütüğünde yazılı konut, iş veya ticaret yeri olarak gösterilen bağımsız bir bölümünde, hastahane, dispanser, klinik, poliklinik, tıp veya kimya laboratuvarı gibi müesseselerin tesis edilmesi ilgili yasalara uygun olarak gerekli izinlerin alınması ve kat malikleri kurulunun oybirliğiyle vereceği kararla açılabilir. (2) Ana taşınmazın, tapu kütüğünde konut olarak gösterilen bağımsız bir bölümünde sinema, tiyatro, kahvehane, gazino, pavyon, bar, kulüp, dans salonu, bet ofisi ve benzeri eğlence ve toplantı yerleri ile fırın, lokanta, pastahane, süthane gibi gıda ve beslenme yerleri ve imalathane, boyahane, basımevi, dükkân, galeri ve çarşı gibi yerler ancak ilgili yasalara uygun olarak gerekli izinlerin alınması ve kat malikleri kurulunun oybirliğiyle vereceği kararla açılabilir.
Translation: “(1) A clinic/hospital/laboratory-type establishment may open in a unit registered as residential/business/commercial use only with the required permits AND a unanimous owners'-assembly decision. (2) Entertainment venues (cinema, bar, club, betting office, etc.) or food/manufacturing premises (bakery, restaurant, workshop, print shop, shop, gallery, market) may open in a unit registered specifically as RESIDENTIAL only with the required permits AND a unanimous owners'-assembly decision.”
Article 37(3) (manager's duty to insure the building)
Translation: “Among the manager's default duties (absent a contrary management-plan rule): taking measures for the building's proper use/preservation, INSURING the main building, collecting annual advances for maintenance/repair/cleaning/lift/heating/insurance, opening a dedicated bank account in the manager's own name marked 'as manager' of the building, and convening the owners' assembly.”
Used by
- rules: Building insurance is an owners'-assembly decision, not an automatic legal requirement · Unpaid common-expense debts can become a registered priority charge against a unit · Common-expense cost-sharing: equal for staffing, by land share for the rest, unless the management plan says otherwise · A manager or management committee is mandatory once a building has more than 4 units · A site's management plan binds all owners and successors; changing it needs a two-thirds vote · Owners' assembly decisions: simple majority, one vote each, and a right to sue to annul · Persistent non-payment of common expenses is a statutory ground for a forced sale of the unit · Converting a residential unit to commercial use needs permits AND unanimous owner consent
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src-kat-mulkiyeti-yasasi-35-2010 - Constitution of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 1985
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Anayasası
Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi), TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full.
Editorial note: Read in full (all 55 pages / 164 articles + 13 transitional articles) by NCR Editorial, from mevzuat.gov.ct.tr's own hosted PDF. Neutral framing note: Article 43 is presented here factually, as both a compensation guarantee (nationalization cannot be uncompensated) and an explicit constitutional basis for the State to nationalize foreign-owned property specifically, alongside public-service enterprises generally — this is a notable, decision-relevant feature of TRNC investor exposure, not an editorial judgement about likelihood or advisability. No data was found on whether Article 43 has ever actually been invoked. Article 13's general foreigner-rights-restriction power very likely underlies sector-specific foreign-ownership restrictions found elsewhere (for example the unconfirmed 51% construction/tourism-agency claim), but this specific causal link has not been independently confirmed. Article 112's mechanism explains how the Council of Ministers can issue immediately effective economic decrees, relevant context for the various property/investment decrees NCR has separately encountered and encoded.
Quoted passages (4)
Article 41 (expropriation and compensation)
Translation: “The State, municipalities and law-designated public bodies may expropriate any movable/immovable property or right/interest for a public-interest purpose named in a general expropriation law, via a reasoned decision, subject to full and equitable compensation ('tam ve hakkaniyete uygun bir tazminat') paid immediately or in law-set instalments up to 5 years. Property not used for its stated purpose within 3 years must be offered back at the original price. The owner may apply to court, which suspends the process, with appeal rights. Draws no citizen/foreigner distinction.”
Article 43 (Devletleştirme — nationalization)
Kamu hizmeti niteliği taşıyan özel girişimler ve yabancılara ait taşınır ve taşınmaz mallar, kamu yararının gerektirdiği durumlarda, gerçek karşılıkları yasada gösterilen şekilde ödenmek koşuluyla devletleştirilebilir.
Translation: “Private enterprises having the character of a public service, and movable and immovable property BELONGING TO FOREIGNERS, may be nationalized where the public interest so requires, on condition that their actual value is paid in the manner shown by law. Where law allows instalments, the period is capped at 10 years, equal instalments, with the unpaid balance bearing interest at the State-debt rate.”
Article 13 (Yabancıların Durumu — general derogation power over foreigners' rights)
Bu Anayasada gösterilen hak ve özgürlükler, yabancılar için, uluslararası hukuka uygun olarak yasa ile kısıtlanabilir.
Translation: “Rights and freedoms set out in the Constitution may be restricted for foreigners by law, in accordance with international law.”
Article 112 (Yasa Gücünde Kararname — Decree Having the Force of Law, economic matters)
Translation: “The Council of Ministers may issue decrees having the force of law on economic matters; such decrees are published and effective immediately, submitted the same day to Parliament, which must decide within 90 days, and may not thereby impose new financial burdens or restrict personal/political rights.”
Used by
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src-trnc-constitution-1985 - Corporate Tax Law, No. 41/1976 (consolidated through amending Law 37/2014)
41/1976 Sayılı Kurumlar Vergisi Yasası
Tax Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full.
Editorial note: Read in full (all 45 articles + transitional/final provisions) by NCR Editorial, from the Tax Department's own official .doc. Confirms NO differential base corporate-tax RATE for foreign vs. local ownership, but a different TAXABLE BASE: worldwide income for TRNC-seated companies (Art. 9) vs. TRNC-source income only for foreign-seated companies (Art. 11-12), with a special anti-avoidance sourcing rule for banks/insurers/financial institutions (Art. 11, second paragraph). No standalone capital-gains-on-share-sale or business-asset-disposal provision was found after searching for 'hisse senedi', 'iştirak hissesi', 'değer artış kazancı' and 'elden çıkarma' — Article 13 computes taxable income by reference to ordinary Income Tax Law income-computation rules, suggesting such gains are folded into ordinary trading profit at the normal 10% rate rather than carrying a separate regime, but this is inference, not a stated rule — genuine gap, not settled.
Quoted passages (4)
Article 23 (corporate tax rate)
Kurumlar Vergisi, bu Yasaya göre saptanan kurum kazançları üzerinden (yabancı kurumlar dahil) %10 (yüzde on) oranında hesaplanır.
Translation: “Corporate Tax is calculated at 10% on corporate income determined under this Law (foreign corporations included).”
Article 26 / Article 21 (tax period)
Translation: “The statutory tax period is the preceding calendar year, but a company may use a non-calendar accounting period, in which case the return is due within 4 months of period-end instead of the standard April deadline.”
Article 40(1)(a), (4)-(5) (payment calendar and on-time-filer discount)
Translation: “Corporate tax is paid in two equal instalments, May and October (or month-following-filing and the 6th month after, for non-calendar-year filers). A 5% discount on tax due is available to taxpayers with 3 consecutive years of on-time filing/payment, excluding banks, finance companies, forex dealers, GSM operators, fuel importers, gambling/nightclub businesses, and alcohol/tobacco-majority retailers.”
Article 28 (assessment limitation period)
Translation: “The statute of limitations for reassessment is 7 years.”
Used by
- rules: Corporate tax: annual filing, two payment instalments, and an on-time compliance discount · TRNC corporate tax rate: flat 10%, including foreign corporations
- claims: TRNC's Corporate Tax Law 41/1976, read in full (twice, independently), contains no standalone capital-gains-on-share-or-asset-sale provision.
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src-corporate-tax-law-41-1976 - Criminal Code, Cap. 154, consolidated text (CyLaw), sections 281 and 303A
Ο περί Ποινικού Κώδικα Νόμος, ΚΕΦ. 154
CyLaw (Cyprus Bar Association legal database) · Republic of Cyprus · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Greek
Reading: Read in part. Sections 281 and 303A and their amending instruments, per the notes and the four quoted passages.
Reading note: Local copy is Part 6 only; the wider consolidated text has not been confirmed read.
Editorial note: Consolidated text maintained by CyLaw, the legal database of the Cyprus Bar Association. Section 303A was inserted by Law 130(I)/2006; section 281 was amended by Law 18(I)/2025 (see the gazette source).
Quoted passages (4)
Section 303A(1)
Πρόσωπο το οποίο, με σκοπό καταδολίευσης, συναλλάττεται σε ακίνητη περιουσία που ανήκει σε άλλο είναι ένοχο κακουργήματος και υπόκειται σε φυλάκιση εφτά χρόνων.
Translation: “A person who, with intent to defraud, deals in immovable property belonging to another is guilty of a felony and is liable to seven years’ imprisonment.”
Section 303A(2)
πρόσωπο συναλλάττεται σε ακίνητη περιουσία όπου (α) πωλεί σε άλλο, ή ενοικιάζει σε άλλο, ή υποθηκεύει σε άλλο ή επιβαρύνει με οποιοδήποτε τρόπο, ή διαθέτει προς χρήση σε άλλο ακίνητη περιουσία, ή (β) διαφημίζει ή άλλως πως προωθεί τη σε άλλο πώληση ή ενοικίαση ή υποθήκευση ή επιβάρυνση με οποιοδήποτε τρόπο ή την από άλλο χρήση ακίνητης περιουσίας, ή (γ) συνάπτει συμφωνία για την πώληση σε άλλο, ή την ενοικίαση σε άλλο, ή την υποθήκευση σε άλλο, ή την επιβάρυνση με οποιοδήποτε τρόπο προς όφελος άλλου, ή τη χρήση από άλλον ακίνητης περιουσίας, ή (δ) αποδέχεται την ακίνητη περιουσία η οποία αποτελεί το αντικείμενο της συναλλαγής
Translation: “a person deals in immovable property where they (a) sell, let, mortgage or otherwise encumber immovable property to another, or make it available for another’s use; or (b) advertise or otherwise promote its sale, letting, mortgaging, encumbrance or use by another; or (c) enter into an agreement for its sale, letting, mortgaging, encumbrance for the benefit of another, or use by another; or (d) accept the immovable property that is the object of such a transaction”
Section 303A(3)
πρόσωπο ενεργεί με σκοπό καταδολίευσης εάν προβεί σε οποιαδήποτε από τις πράξεις που καθορίζονται στο εδάφιο (2) ενώ γνωρίζει ή, υπό τις περιστάσεις, έπρεπε εύλογα να γνωρίζει, ότι δεν έχει τη συγκατάθεση του εγγεγραμμένου ιδιοκτήτη της ακίνητης περιουσίας
Translation: “a person acts with intent to defraud if they do any of the acts in subsection (2) while knowing, or in the circumstances ought reasonably to have known, that they do not have the consent of the registered owner of the immovable property”
Section 281(1), as amended
Όποιος κατέχει, καλλιεργεί, νέμεται ή χρησιμοποιεί με οποιοδήποτε τρόπο (α) γη εγγεγραμμένη επί ονόματι άλλου ... χωρίς τη συναίνεση του εγγεγραμμένου ιδιοκτήτη ή των κληρονόμων του ... είναι ένοχος αδικήματος και υπόκειται σε ποινή φυλάκισης μέχρι και πέντε (5) έτη ή σε χρηματική ποινή μέχρι τις δέκα χιλιάδες ευρώ (€10.000) ή και στις δύο αυτές ποινές.
Translation: “Whoever possesses, cultivates, occupies or uses in any way (a) land registered in the name of another ... without the consent of the registered owner or their heirs ... is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment of up to five (5) years or a fine of up to ten thousand euros (€10,000), or both.”
Used by
- rules: Republic of Cyprus: possessing or using land registered to another without consent is an offence (up to five years since 2025) · Republic of Cyprus: dealing in immovable property belonging to another without the registered owner’s consent is a felony
- conflicts: Who owns property in the north that was registered to a Greek Cypriot before 1974?
- guides: Is it safe to buy property in Northern Cyprus? · Property disputes, the European Court of Human Rights and the Immovable Property Commission · Title deeds and ownership risk
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src-cylaw-criminal-code-cap-154 - Currency and Exchange Law, No. 38/1997, as amended and consolidated by Law 18/2025
38/1997 Sayılı Para ve Kambiyo Yasası (18/2025 sayılı Değişiklik Yasasıyla Değiştirilmiş ve Birleştirilmiş Şekli)
Central Bank of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Table of contents mapped (18 articles); Article 3 (definitions), Article 4 (official currency freedom), Article 5 (foreign-currency freedom), Article 6 (foreign-currency movements/remittances), Article 9 (döviz bürosu/exchange-bureau ownership conditions), Article 11 (foreign-currency accounts/loans), and Article 13 (securities) read in full..
Reading note: Articles 7-8, 10, 12, 14-18 (cash movement controls, bank exchange transactions, rate-setting, reporting, jewellers, administrative penalties, offences, commencement) were not read — none of their headings suggested relevance to bank-account eligibility.
Editorial note: Fetched and read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. This is the specific law flagged by an earlier research pass as the strongest unread lead for resolving the residence-permit-for-bank-account discrepancy (a related finding). FINDING (bounded research, now closed): across every article whose heading suggested relevance to currency, accounts or persons (Articles 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13), this Law consistently uses the unqualified phrase 'gerçek ve tüzel kişiler' (natural and legal persons) with NO residence-permit or citizenship condition attached anywhere. Article 5 states a general freedom to hold and save in foreign currency; Article 6 permits bank remittances in/out of the TRNC subject only to a name/address recording and Central Bank reporting duty (AML-adjacent, consistent with the AML Law already read); Article 11(2) permits banks to open foreign-currency accounts for any natural or legal person; Article 13(2) gives non-residents ('yurt dışında mukim') an explicit statutory right to invest in and hold TRNC securities. This is now a FOURTH independent primary-legislation source (alongside the Banking Law, the AML Law and the Residence Regulation's silence on the point) that states no residence-permit precondition for basic financial/account access. CONCLUSION: this Law does not itself resolve why secondary/practitioner sources consistently report banks requiring a residence permit in practice — it neither imposes nor forbids such a condition, and a bank's own internal KYC/onboarding policy could impose it without contradicting this Law. The 'Claimant A' (no legal requirement) side of the discrepancy is now strongly corroborated across four primary sources; this specific research lead is exhausted and should not be re-investigated without a genuinely new source (e.g. a Central Bank circular/tebliğ or a specific bank's published onboarding policy).
Quoted passages (4)
Article 11(1)-(2) (foreign-currency accounts and loans)
(1) Gerçek veya tüzel kişilerin döviz ile kredi kullanması veya döviz ile borç verebilmesi, taraflarca karşılıklı olarak yapılan akitlerdeki miktarları döviz ile ifade etmesi ve gerekli ödeme işlemlerini döviz ile yapması serbesttir. (2) Bankalar gerçek veya tüzel kişilere Döviz Hesabı açabilirler, vadesiz döviz hesapları üzerine çek defteri verebilirler.
Translation: “(1) Natural or legal persons are free to use foreign-currency credit or lend in foreign currency, to express amounts in mutually-agreed contracts in foreign currency, and to make required payment transactions in foreign currency. (2) Banks may open Foreign-Currency Accounts for natural or legal persons, and may issue chequebooks against demand foreign-currency accounts.”
Article 13(1)-(2) (securities — freedom for TRNC and non-resident persons alike)
(1) Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetindeki gerçek ve tüzel kişilerin yurt dışında doğrudan yatırım yapmaları, yurt içi ve yurt dışındaki mali piyasalarda işlem gören hisse senedi, bono, tahvil, opsiyon ve diğer her türlü menkul kıymeti alıp satmaları, yurda ithal veya yurt dışına ihraç etmeleri ve tasarrufunda bulundurmaları serbesttir. (2) Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti dahilinde, yurt dışında mukim gerçek ve tüzel kişiler her türlü menkul kıymete yatırım yapabilir ve tasarrufunda bulundurabilir.
Translation: “(1) Natural and legal persons in the TRNC are free to make direct investments abroad, to buy and sell any securities (shares, bonds, notes, options and others) traded on domestic or foreign financial markets, to import or export them, and to hold them. (2) Within the TRNC, natural and legal persons resident abroad may invest in and hold any type of security.”
Article 5 (foreign-currency freedom, general)
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde gerçek ve tüzel kişilerin döviz bulundurması, dövizle tasarruf yapması, dövizi bir mübadele aracı olarak kullanması ve ödeme emri ve akitlerdeki rakamları döviz ile ifade etmesi serbesttir.
Translation: “In the TRNC, natural and legal persons are free to hold foreign currency, to save in foreign currency, to use foreign currency as a medium of exchange, and to express figures in payment orders and contracts in foreign currency.”
Article 6 (foreign-currency movements/remittances via banks)
Gerçek ve tüzel kişilerin, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinden ülke haricine ve ülke haricinden Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetine bankaları aracı olarak kullanmak kaydıyla, yapacakları havaleler ve para hareketleri, gönderen ve alıcıya ilişkin isim ve adreslerin kaydedilmesi kaydıyla, döviz dahil, serbesttir. Gelen ve giden havalelerin toplam tutarları Merkez Bankasına bildirilir.
Translation: “Remittances and money movements that natural and legal persons make out of and into the TRNC using banks as intermediary, including in foreign currency, are free, provided the sender's and recipient's names and addresses are recorded. The total amounts of incoming and outgoing remittances are reported to the Central Bank.”
Used by
- rules: Foreign-exchange bureaux: no TRNC-citizenship requirement for founders/shareholders
- claims: The Currency and Exchange Law No. 38/1997, Article 11(2), states that banks may open a Foreign-Currency Account for any natural or legal person, and may issue chequebooks against demand foreign-currency accounts. No residence-permit or citizenship condition is stated in this or any neighbouring article. · TRNC codifies an explicit capital/profit-repatriation freedom only for two special vehicles: International Business Companies (Law 38/2005, Article 13(4)) and Free Port/Zone enterprises (Law 26/1983, Article 28(3), already published as freezone-capital-repatriation-freedom). An ordinary TRNC company relies instead on the general currency-freedom provisions of the Currency and Exchange Law 38/1997, not a dedicated investment-law repatriation guarantee.
- conflicts: Is a TRNC residence permit required in law, or only in practice, to open a personal bank account? · Is a TRNC residence permit required in law, or only in practice, to open a personal bank account?
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src-para-kambiyo-yasasi-38-1997 - Cyprus Turkish Social Insurance Law No. 16/1976 (Kıbrıs Türk Sosyal Sigortalar Yasası), consolidated text incorporating amendments through 2025
16/1976 Sayılı Kıbrıs Türk Sosyal Sigortalar Yasası
Social Insurance Department, TRNC (Ministry of Labour and Social Security) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Searched for foreign-worker and international-agreement provisions; Article 131 located and quoted. The relationship between this Law and the Social Security Law 73/2007 was not resolved, and most of this 261,000-character document was not read..
Reading note: Reading was bounded against reconstructing the entire social-security system.
Editorial note: Read (narrowly) by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, via the Social Insurance Department's own website (ssd.gov.ct.tr), which serves the current consolidated law directly as a clean PDF. The Department's own site states this text incorporates amendments through 5/2025. This older law (1976) and the newer Social Security Law (73/2007, src-sosyal-guvenlik-yasasi-73-2007) appear to operate in parallel — the Department's own site describes both as its 'two main laws' without establishing precisely how their scopes divide (for example by insured-person category, benefit type, or historical transition). Article 131 mirrors the same general international-agreement enabling power found in the newer Law's Article 119, without naming any concluded agreement.
Quoted passages (1)
Article 131 (enabling power for international agreements)
Bakanlık, sigortalıların çalıştığı yabancı ülkelerle veya ülkede çalışan yabancı uyrukluların ülkeleriyle Sosyal Güvenlik [anlaşmaları yapabilir].
Translation: “The Ministry may conclude Social Security [agreements] with the foreign countries where insured persons work, or with the countries of foreign nationals working in the TRNC.”
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src-kibris-turk-sosyal-sigortalar-yasasi-16-1976 - Decree with force of law 119/2026 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners (Official Gazette No. 196, EK I Bölüm II, 6 October 2026)
Yabancıların Taşınmaz Mal Edinimine İlişkin Kuralları Düzenleyen Yasa Gücünde Kararname, 119/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 196, EK I Bölüm II, 6 Ekim 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 6 October 2026 · accessed 10 October 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Decree 119/2026 in full — all 16 articles and the transitional Article 1 substitutions — read and cross-checked article by article against the repealed 89/2026's own figures (as already encoded in NCR's 20 decree rules). The companion tax-settlement decree and corporate-tax decree in the same Gazette issue were not read..
Reading note: Confirms near-total figure-for-figure continuity, with the two changes and one gap noted above. This is the most thorough same-session primary-source verification NCR has done for a single instrument to date.
Editorial note: Found via the standing weekly Gazette watch (docs/decree-cycle-checklist.md) during a Night Research session, 2026-10-10 — 4 days after this decree's own commencement, meaning NCR's live content had been stating the repealed predecessor (89/2026) as current for that period. Official Gazette No. 196 (06.10.2026) is a very large (169-page), mostly unrelated issue (personnel appointments, an unrelated corporate-tax decree, an unrelated pre-21-May-2024-contracts tax-settlement decree Ü(K-I)2569-2026 not read as part of this source); this record's scope is Ü(K-I)2530-2026 / Decree 119/2026 only, read in full across its 16 articles and transitional Article 1. Substantive comparison against the repealed 89/2026 (word for word on every figure NCR had a rule for): the core acquisition limits (1,338 m² / 3 apartments / 3,300 m² detached / 2 villas), the one-month registration deadline, one-year transfer deadline, 75-business-day tax deadline, 80% same-parcel cap, €10,000,000 investment threshold with its 2-year usage window, 49% build-and-sell foreign-partnership cap, the Licensed Intermediary Investor's minimum-10-dwellings/year and 2-year marketing window, the transfer-to-relatives provision, the 36-month completed-dwelling transfer deadline, the 2-year technical-obstacle share-transfer route, the investment-property onward-transfer route, the 6-month pre-2024-contract registration window, the 1%/3% over-limit notification fee, the 10-year usage certificate, and the 6-month administrative-fault extension power are ALL restated with unchanged figures — this decree is predominantly a renewal, not a substantive rewrite, matching its own stated purpose (extending periods, parallel adjustments for tax/fee collection). Most "from the decree's entry into force" clocks reset to this decree's own commencement, 2026-10-06 — confirmed individually per provision, since at least one (the share-transfer-with-director-approval 2-year window) instead runs from the (Değişiklik) Yasası's own 21 May 2024 date, not from this decree. Two genuine changes found: (1) new procedural detail for the Licensed Intermediary Investor route not previously quoted in NCR's records — an annual licence fee (2x monthly gross minimum wage) and a Holiday-Homes-usage-certificate fallback (or licence cancellation) if the investor fails to market/transfer within 2 years; (2) the general Permission-to-Purchase applicant's criminal-record apostille/3-month-recency requirement (previously carried via 89/2026, itself following 63/2026) is NOT restated anywhere in this decree's text — searched specifically and thoroughly (the only apostille/criminal-record mention found is the Licensed Intermediary Investor's own, separate documentary requirement, Article 8B(1)) — the stricter decree-level requirement appears to have lapsed; see rules/ptp-criminal-record-apostille-and-recency-current, now marked expired. A third item, Esas Yasa Geçici 1'inci maddesinin (6)'ncı fıkrası (transitional paragraph 6), is explicitly dropped from the list of paragraphs restated (Madde 8 lists 2, 3, 5, 7, 9 as replaced — not 6, even though 6 was named among the old paragraphs being superseded) — its content was not independently identified during this reading and does not correspond to any of NCR's existing 20 decree rules, so it is noted here rather than chased further tonight. The decree's own 90-day constitutional term (Article 112) is not stated in its own text (consistent with 89/2026 and its predecessors, which also never state their own expiry — the limit is a constitutional fact, not decree text); by the same ~90-day pattern observed between 63/2026 (11 May 2026) and 89/2026 (7 August 2026, 88 days), the next decree-cycle check is expected around early January 2027 — added to the standing watch.
Quoted passages (7)
Article 14 (repeal)
Yabancıların Taşınmaz Mal Edinimine İlişkin Kuralları Düzenleyen Yasa Gücünde Kararname, işbu Yasa Gücünde Kararname yürürlüğe girdiği tarihte yürürlükten kaldırılır.
Translation: “The Decree with Force of Law Regulating Rules on Foreigners' Acquisition of Immovable Property [89/2026, Official Gazette No. 147, 7 August 2026] is repealed on the date this Decree with Force of Law enters into force.”
Article 16 (commencement)
Bu Yasa Gücünde Kararname Resmi Gazete'de yayımlandığı tarihten başlayarak yürürlüğe girer.
Translation: “This Decree with Force of Law enters into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette [6 October 2026].”
General reasoning (Genel Gerekçe)
Yabancıların Taşınmaz Mal Edinimine İlişkin Kuralları Düzenleyen Yasa Gücünde Kararname ile getirilen düzenlemelere duyulan ihtiyaç ortadan kalkmadığından dolayı uygulamada birlik sağlanması, yetkili makamların aynı esaslar çerçevesinde işlem yapmasının temin edilmesi halen önemini korumaktadır... Cumhuriyet Meclisi'nin Hukuk, Siyasi İşler, Dış İlişkiler ve Savunma Komitesi'nin gündeminde olan ve görüşülmesi tamamlanmayan 52/2008 sayılı Taşınmaz Mal Edinme ve Uzun Vadeli Kiralama (Yabancılar) Yasasındaki değişiklikler yasallaşmadığı cihetle zaruretten dolayı işbu Yasa Gücünde Kararname hazırlanmıştır.
Translation: “Since the need for the regulations introduced by the Decree with Force of Law Regulating Rules on Foreigners' Acquisition of Immovable Property has not disappeared, ensuring uniformity in practice and that the competent authorities act on the same basis remains important... Because the amendments to Law 52/2008 (the Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Leasing (Foreigners) Law), which are on the agenda of and under discussion in the Assembly's Committee on Legal, Political, Foreign Affairs and Defence, have not become law, this Decree with Force of Law has been prepared out of necessity.”
Madde 2 (Amaç / purpose)
Bu Yasa Gücünde Kararname'nin amacı; Taşınmaz Mal Edinme ve Uzun Vadeli Kiralama (Yabancılar) (Değişiklik) Yasasındaki öngörülen süreler uzatılarak diğer maddelerde de ihtiyaç duyulan paralel düzenlemeler yapılmak suretiyle devletin elde edeceği gelir kaybını önlemek amacıyla vergi ve harçların tahsil edilmesi ve ekonomiye katkı sağlanmasıdır.
Translation: “The purpose of this Decree with Force of Law is to extend the periods envisaged in the Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Leasing (Foreigners) (Amendment) Law, and, by making the parallel regulations needed in other articles, to prevent loss of state revenue by collecting taxes and fees and contributing to the economy.”
Article 4, new Article 8(1)(A)-(Ç) (core acquisition limits — compared word for word against the superseded decree's own text, unchanged)
(A) Satın alınacak taşınmaz malın arazi olması ve yapı iznine uygun olması halinde: Satın alınacak arazinin yüz ölçümü 1338 m2 (bin üç yüz otuz sekiz metrekare)'den fazla olamaz ve bu alan içerisine sadece 1 (bir) adet konut yapılabilir; veya (B) Satın alınacak taşınmaz malın apartman dairesi olması halinde: 3 (üç) adetten fazla olamaz; Ancak; Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetini tanıyan ve aynı hakkı Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti yurttaşlarına veren devletlerin uyruğunda olan gerçek veya tüzel kişiler 6 (altı) adet apartman dairesi alabilir... (C) Satın alınacak taşınmaz malın müstakil ev olması halinde arazinin yüz ölçümü 3300 m2 (üç bin üç yüz metrekare)'den fazla olamaz... (Ç) ...toplu konut veya site olarak inşaa edilmiş olması halinde; 2 (iki) adet iki katlı müstakil villa alabilir.
Translation: “(A) Where the immovable property to be purchased is land suitable for a building permit: the area of the land to be purchased may not exceed 1,338 m² (one thousand three hundred and thirty-eight square metres), and only 1 (one) dwelling may be built on that area; or (B) where the immovable property to be purchased is an apartment: no more than 3 (three); provided that, nationals of states that recognise the TRNC and grant the same right to TRNC citizens may purchase 6 (six) apartments... (C) where the immovable property to be purchased is a detached house, the land area may not exceed 3,300 m² (three thousand three hundred square metres)... (Ç) where built as a housing estate or site, 2 (two) two-storey detached villas may be purchased.”
Article 8A(1)-(2) (Licensed Intermediary Investor — new detail not previously quoted in NCR's records: an annual licence fee, and the licence's own one-year validity)
Lisanslı Ara Yatırımcıya... Lisans belgesi, Bakanlığa bağlı ilgili Müsteşarlık tarafından yıllık olarak verilir. 1 yıllık süre; lisans belgesinin verildiği tarih ile bir yıl sonraki aynı tarih arasında (her iki tarih de dahil) geçen süredir... Lisanslı ara yatırımcı, lisans belgesi alabilmek için yürürlükteki aylık brüt asgari ücretin 2 (iki) katı tutarındaki harcı, Gelir ve Vergi Dairesi veznelerine öder.
Translation: “The Licensed Intermediary Investor's licence document is issued annually by the relevant Undersecretariat under the Ministry. The one-year period runs from the date the licence is issued to the same date one year later (both dates inclusive)... To obtain the licence, the Licensed Intermediary Investor pays a fee equal to twice the current monthly gross minimum wage to the Tax and Revenue Department.”
Article 8A(6) (new consequence if a Licensed Intermediary Investor fails to market/transfer within 2 years: a Holiday Homes usage-certificate fallback, or licence cancellation)
Lisanslı ara yatırımcı işbu tasarrufuna almış olduğu taşınmazları yurt içi veya yurt dışında yabancı gerçek veya tüzel kişilere 2 (iki) yıl zarfında pazarlayamaması ve devrini yapamaması durumunda, Geçici 1'inci maddenin (2)'nci fıkrasının (C), (Ç) ve (D) bentlerindeki kurallarda belirtilen kullanım belgesini almak kaydıyla Tatil Evleri ile ilgili mevzuat kapsamına dahil olmak zorundadırlar. Aksi takdirde Lisanslı ara yatırımcının lisans belgesi Bakanlık tarafından iptal edilir.
Translation: “Where a Licensed Intermediary Investor is unable to market and transfer the immovable properties it has taken into its disposal to foreign natural or legal persons, in the TRNC or abroad, within 2 (two) years, it must bring the property within the scope of the Holiday Homes legislation by obtaining the usage certificate described in Transitional Article 1(2)(C) and (D). Otherwise the Ministry cancels the Licensed Intermediary Investor's licence.”
Used by
- rules: Current acquisition limits under the decree in force · Council may extend transitional periods by up to six months for administrative fault · Build-and-sell partnerships with local contractors (foreign share up to 49%) · Completed, delivered dwellings bought before the decree: transfer within thirty-six months · Investment property bought under the law may be sold to another foreigner with permission · Current investment threshold: ten million euros · Licensed intermediary investor · Over-limit pre-2024 contracts must be transferred within twenty-four months · Register the stamped contract and apply for permission within one month, or the contract is void · Current cap: at most eighty per cent of a housing project may be sold to foreigners · Where a unit title is impossible, shares may be transferred with the Land Registry Director’s approval · Current deadline: transfer fees within seventy-five business days; no utilities until taxes are paid · Current deadline: transfer within one year of the permission being published · A foreigner may transfer to close relatives with Ministry approval · Pre-2024 contracts above the limits: notify with a fee of one per cent (three per cent if late) · Pre-2024 contracts: register and apply within six months of the decree · Pre-2024 trustee agreements: register within six months or they are void · Usage certificate for over-limit pre-2024 contracts: ten years, ownership stays with the seller · PTP criminal-record certificate: currently must be apostilled and no more than three months old
- claims: Decree with force of law 119/2026 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners was published in Official Gazette No. 196 on 6 October 2026 and entered into force on publication; Article 14 explicitly repeals the previous decree, 89/2026, on the same date. · The rules for foreign buyers have been carried by a chain of decrees with force of law re-issued on expiry: 30/2025 (14 August 2025), 42/2025 (14 November 2025), 11/2026 (12 February 2026), 63/2026 (11 May 2026), 89/2026 (7 August 2026) and 119/2026 (6 October 2026), each stating that it applies in place of the listed articles of Law 52/2008 while in force.
- regulatory events: The foreign property-acquisition decree was renewed four weeks before its expected expiry, almost entirely unchanged
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src-gazette-2026-196-decree-119-2026 - Drinking and Agricultural Water Use Regulation, made under the Water Affairs Department Law No. 39/1988, Article 14
İçme Suyu ve Zirai Suyun Kullanımı... Tüzüğü
Municipalities, TRNC (Belediyeler) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full 7-page regulation read..
Reading note: Tariff figures explicitly volatile, revised nearly annually per the preamble's own amendment history.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026: downloaded and text-extracted (18,572 characters); read in full, all 7 pages. Administered under the Water Affairs Department (Su İşleri Dairesi) Law No. 39/1988 (which itself has not been independently read). The tariff figures in Article 7 are explicitly volatile — the preamble lists 11 amending Tüzükler from 2018 to 2026, meaning this regulation is revised nearly annually.
Quoted passages (3)
Article 5 (state ownership of water sources)
[All groundwater, surface water, coastal water and public-nature alternative sources are state property, non-transferable, though a right of use can be granted.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 8 (municipal supply obligation, cross-confirming the Municipalities Law)
Belediyeler Yasası uyarınca belediyeler içme suyu bölgesi sınırları içinde her konut ve işyerine içme suyu götürmekle yükümlüdür.
Translation: “Under the Municipalities Law, municipalities are obliged to bring drinking water to every residence and workplace within their drinking-water zone boundaries.”
Article 7 (tariffs by water source)
[Distinguishes tariffs for water sourced from Turkey's undersea pipeline (24.50 TL/m3 as of the consolidated text) versus locally-sourced water (10.50-23.00 TL/m3 depending on who operates the source).]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text; all figures explicitly volatile.”
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src-drinking-agricultural-water-tuzuk - Electronic Communications Law, No. 6/2012, as amended (most recently by 23/2025)
Elektronik Haberleşme Yasası, 6/2012
Information Technology and Communications Authority, TRNC (BTHK) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Full table of contents mapped; Articles 41-43 and 86-88 read in full..
Reading note: Not read cover to cover (96-page law).
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026: downloaded directly and text-extracted (218,587 characters); the table of contents was fully mapped, and Articles 41-43 and 86-88 were read in full. Article 42(1)(A) is the standout finding: it directly and cleanly confirms that passport-only registration is exactly what the law requires for a foreign SIM subscriber — no residence permit is named as a condition anywhere in this article. Articles 86/88 (MCKS, the device/IMEI registration system) confirm device registration is a separate regime from subscriber/SIM registration — cross-checked against BTHK's own MCKS page (a 90-day/calendar-year grace period for devices brought from abroad, in-person registration only at BTHK's building; a quoted pre-registration fee of 580.60 TL is flagged as volatile/date-specific, not independently re-verified against a current fee schedule).
Quoted passages (2)
Article 42(1)(A), as amended by Law 31/2019 (subscriber identification)
Tüketiciler, bir elektronik haberleşme hizmetine faturalı veya faturasız hat abonesi olurken, bu hizmeti sağlayan haberleşme sağlayıcılarıyla sözleşme yaparlar. Haberleşme sağlayıcıları, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti ve/veya Türkiye Cumhuriyeti yurttaşı olan tüketicilerden kimlik veya pasaport belgesinin bir suretini; Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti ve/veya Türkiye Cumhuriyeti yurttaşı olmayan tüketicilerden ise pasaport belgesinin bir suretini almak zorundadırlar.
Translation: “Consumers, when becoming subscribers to a postpaid or prepaid line for an electronic communications service, contract with the communications provider offering that service. Communications providers must obtain a copy of the ID card or passport from consumers who are TRNC and/or Turkish citizens; and a copy of the passport from consumers who are not TRNC and/or Turkish citizens.”
Article 87(2)-(3) (security of subscriber identity information)
(2) Haberleşme sağlayıcı veya adına iş yapan temsilcisine abonelik kaydı sırasında abonelik bilgileri konusunda gerçek dışı belge ve bilgi verilemez. (3) Abonelik için gerekli kimlik belgeleri örneği alınmadan haberleşme sağlayıcı veya adına iş yapan temsilcisi tarafından abonelik kaydı yapılamaz.
Translation: “(2) False documents/information may not be given to a communications provider or its representative during subscription registration. (3) A provider or its representative may not register a subscription without first taking a copy of the required identity documents.”
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src-electronic-communications-law-6-2012 - Foreigners' Work Permits Law No. 63/2006 (Yabancıların Çalışma İzinleri Yasası), consolidated text incorporating amendments through Law 25/2025
63/2006 Sayılı Yabancıların Çalışma İzinleri Yasası
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Articles 2, 4-12 re-read specifically against the director/shareholder work-permit question — the definitions of 'İşçi', 'İşveren' and 'İş Kurma İzni' (Art. 2), and Articles 5(3), 11, 12(1)-(2)..
Reading note: Same full text as the prior read; this reading extracted the İş Kurma İzni conjunctive trigger test (residence-intent + employer-capacity conduct, no wage element) not previously analysed against this specific question.
Editorial note: Read in full by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, specifically to search for the legal basis of four work-permit 'conversion routes' described only in Ministry administrative guidance (visitor-permit conversion, residence-permit conversion, turning-18 conversion, property-ownership-plus-visa route). Located via mevzuat.gov.ct.tr, resolving an earlier search for this base Law (as opposed to its implementing Regulation) that had not been completed. Finding: Article 5(4) directly and explicitly exempts Daimi İkamet İzni (Permanent Residence Permit) holders — a distinct, permanent status under the separate Permanent Residence Permit Law No. 51/2015, not the same as an ordinary/family residence permit — from needing a separate work permit at all; this is a genuine, positive legal-basis finding for one specific case, distinct from (and not to be conflated with) the four Ministry-FAQ-described conversion routes. Article 22's Exceptions are narrowly diplomatic/consular/press-related and do not cover any of the four routes. Article 23 delegates 'muafiyetler, istisnalar, çalışma izni verme yöntemleri' (exemptions, exceptions, permit-granting methods) to the implementing Tüzük (already read in full separately — src-mevzuat-yabancilarin-calisma-izinleri-tuzugu-2026 — and found not to contain provisions matching the four routes either), which itself further delegates unresolved procedural detail to a yönetmelik not located. The delegation chain (Law Article 23 -> Tüzük -> unlocated yönetmelik) is now fully traced but its final link is not recovered.
Quoted passages (3)
Article 5(4) (added/amended by Law 6/2016) — Permanent Residence Permit exemption
(4) Geçerli bir Daimi İkamet İznine sahip kişiler ve/veya bu kişileri çalıştıran işveren niteliğindeki gerçek veya tüzel kişiler, bu Yasa ve bu Yasa uyarınca çıkarılan tüzüklerde öngörülen yükümlülükleri yerine getirmiş sayılırlar ve yukarıdaki (1)'inci, (2)'nci ve (3)'üncü fıkralarda belirtilen izinleri almış addedilirler.
Translation: “(4) Persons holding a valid Permanent Residence Permit (Daimi İkamet İzni), and/or the natural or legal person employing them as an employer, are deemed to have fulfilled the obligations prescribed under this Law and the regulations issued under it, and are deemed to have obtained the permits referred to in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) above.”
Article 22 (Exceptions)
22. Bakanlar Kurulu, aşağıdaki şartları haiz kişiler için bu Yasadan istisnalar öngörebilir: (1) Yabancı devletlerin ... büyükelçilikleri ile konsolosluklarında ve uluslararası kuruluşların temsilciliklerinde görevli diplomat, idari ve teknik personel ...; (2) Yabancı devletlerin ... kamu kurum ve kuruluşlarında çalışmak üzere geçici süreli olarak gelmiş yabancı devlet memurlarına ve onların eşlerine; (3) ... Enformasyon Dairesine akredite yabancı ülke basın yayın kuruluşlarının yurt dışından görevli olarak gönderilen personeline.
Translation: “22. The Council of Ministers may provide exceptions from this Law for persons meeting the following conditions: (1) diplomatic, administrative and technical staff at foreign embassies/consulates and international-organisation representations in the TRNC (and, reciprocally, TRNC staff abroad); (2) foreign state officials (and their spouses) temporarily posted to work in TRNC public bodies; (3) foreign press personnel accredited to and posted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Information Office.”
Article 23 (Regulation-making power)
23. Bu Yasa kapsamında verilecek iş kurma izni ve çalışma izinlerinin çeşitleri, izinlerin verilme yöntemleri, muafiyetler, istisnalar, çalışma izni verme yöntemleri ve teminat şartları Bakanlıkça hazırlanıp Bakanlar Kurulunca onaylanacak ve Resmi Gazete'de yayımlanacak bir tüzükle düzenlenir.
Translation: “23. The types of business-establishment and work permits granted under this Law, the methods of granting them, exemptions, exceptions, work-permit granting methods, and security requirements are regulated by a Tüzük (Regulation) prepared by the Ministry, approved by the Council of Ministers, and published in the Official Gazette.”
Used by
- rules: NCR interpretation: active, unpaid management may fall within the İş Kurma İzni requirement · İş Kurma İzni: the permit test for foreign directors and shareholders is residence plus employer-capacity conduct, not remuneration
- claims: No TRNC statutory provision exempts owner-directors from the work-permit/İş Kurma İzni apparatus as such; the sole blanket exemption in the Foreigners' Work Permits Law is for holders of a Daimi İkamet İzni (Permanent Residence Permit, Law 51/2015), an independently obtained status unrelated to company ownership.
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src-yabancilarin-calisma-izinleri-yasasi-63-2006 - Foreigners' Work Permits Regulation (Yabancıların Çalışma İzinleri Tüzüğü), consolidated text incorporating amendments through 17 September 2026
Yabancıların Çalışma İzinleri Tüzüğü
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Articles 2, 6-30 read in full, closing the gap left by the prior session — specifically Articles 26-30 (İş Kurma İzni definition, conjunctive trigger test, conversion mechanics Art. 30(16)-(17), automatic invalidation on share sale/directorship end, Art. 28(4)) and Article 9 (employer labour-market pre-condition)..
Reading note: Read specifically to resolve whether company directorship/shareholding triggers a work-permit requirement. Resolved to legislation-tier confidence for five of six researched cases.
Editorial note: Located on mevzuat.gov.ct.tr (the Central Legislation Office's own consolidated-law database), 19 September 2026, after an earlier fetch of a different URL (csgb.gov.ct.tr) failed to yield extractable text. This copy is clean, machine-readable text (not scanned), and its own header lists consolidation through 17 September 2026 (A.E.860/2026) — about as current as evidence gets. The regulation is made under Article 23 of the Foreigners' Work Permits Law No. 63/2006 (as amended by 25/2012, 22/2015, 6/2016, 42/2016). Establishes 4 distinct permit categories under Article 6: Süreli Çalışma İzni (time-limited work permit), İş Yapma İzni (permit to perform specific work), Öğrenci Çalışma İzni (student work permit), İş Kurma İzni (business-establishment permit for foreign company directors/shareholders). Reading focused on the Süreli Çalışma İzni track (Articles 6, 8-17); the İş Yapma İzni, Öğrenci Çalışma İzni and İş Kurma İzni tracks, and the implementing yönetmelik the Tüzük itself delegates several procedural matters to, have not been read in comparable depth. One discrepancy was found between Article 17(5)'s 40-day extension-application deadline and the Ministry's own FAQ page, which states 90 days (3 months) — see src-csgb-yabancicalismaizni-faq.
Quoted passages (6)
Article 8 (Ön İzin requirement)
8. (1) Yukarıdaki 6'ncı maddede öngörülen çalışma izinlerinden Süreli Çalışma İzni ve İş Yapma İzni başvurularından önce başvuru yapılacak yabancı uyruklu işçi için Ön İzin alınması ve bu amaçla öngörülen işlemlerin, işçiler Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'ne gelmeden önce işveren tarafından tamamlanmış olması şarttır. (2) İşverenler, ancak yurt dışında olan işçiler için Ön İzin başvurusunda bulunabilirler.
Translation: “8. (1) Before applying for a Time-limited Work Permit or a Permit to Perform Work under Article 6, it is mandatory that Preliminary Permit (Ön İzin) be obtained for the foreign worker to be applied for, and that the procedures prescribed for this purpose be completed by the employer before the worker comes to the TRNC. (2) Employers may apply for Ön İzin only for workers who are abroad.”
Article 11(3)-(6) (Ön İzin effect, validity, and lapse)
(3) Ön İzin, hamiline, bu Tüzük hükümleri altında Bakanlığın yazılı Ön İzin onayında belirtilen işte veya işyerinde, işverenin yanında ve belirtilen meslekte çalışmak amacıyla Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'ne girme hakkı verir. (4) Bakanlıkça düzenlenen Ön İzinlerin geçerlilik süresi düzenlenme tarihinden itibaren 30 gündür. ... (6) Bir Ön İzin sahibi işçinin Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'ne girişinden sonra iznin verildiği işe başlamaması halinde Ön İzni iptal edilmiş olur ve çalışma izni başvuru hakkı düşer.
Translation: “(3) The Ön İzin entitles its bearer to enter the TRNC for the purpose of working, with the employer, at the job or workplace and in the profession stated in the Ministry's written Ön İzin approval under this Regulation. (4) The validity period of Ön İzin issued by the Ministry is 30 days from the date of issue. ... (6) If a worker holding an Ön İzin does not start the job for which it was granted after entering the TRNC, the Ön İzin is deemed cancelled and the right to apply for a work permit lapses.”
Article 13(1) (application window after entry)
13. (1) İlk kez Süreli Çalışma İzni başvuruları Bakanlığa veya onun oluşturduğu birimlere Ön İzinle yurt dışından getirtilen işçinin Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'ne giriş tarihinden itibaren en geç 15 gün içerisinde yapılır ve en geç 30 gün içerisinde tamamlanır.
Translation: “13. (1) First-time Time-limited Work Permit applications must be made to the Ministry or its designated units, for a worker brought from abroad on an Ön İzin, at the latest within 15 days of the worker's entry date into the TRNC, and must be completed at the latest within 30 days.”
Article 15(3) (initial permit duration)
(3) Süreli Çalışma İzinleri için işverenler tarafından yapılacak ilk başvuruda, Süreli Çalışma İzni en az altı aylık ve en fazla bir yıllık süre için düzenlenir.
Translation: “(3) On employers' first application for Time-limited Work Permits, the permit is issued for a minimum of six months and a maximum of one year.”
Article 16(2)-(3) (employer-specific nature and termination consequence)
(2) Süreli Çalışma İzni ile bir işyerinde çalışmakta olan yabancı uyruklu işçi, çalışma izninde belirtilen işyerinden başka bir işyerinde veya işverenin yanında çalışamaz, işvereni tarafından başka bir işverene devredilemez. ... (3) Süreli Çalışma İzni sahibi bir yabancı uyruklu işçinin iznin verildiği işe başlamaması veya başladıktan sonra devam etmekte kusur işlemesi, hizmet akdinin işveren tarafından feshedilmesi veya her ne şekilde olursa olsun iş ilişkisinin sona ermesi halinde izni geçersiz olur ve iptal edilmiş sayılır. ... İş ilişkisi sona eren yabancı uyruklu işçinin İş Yasası ve diğer yasalardan doğan hakları saklıdır.
Translation: “(2) A foreign worker employed at a workplace under a Time-limited Work Permit may not work at any workplace or for any employer other than the one stated in the permit, and may not be transferred by their employer to a different employer. ... (3) If a foreign worker holding a Time-limited Work Permit does not start the job for which the permit was granted, defaults in continuing it after starting, has their contract of service terminated by the employer, or the employment relationship ends in any manner whatsoever, the permit becomes invalid and is deemed cancelled. ... The rights of a foreign worker whose employment relationship has ended, arising under the Labour Law and other laws, are preserved.”
Article 17(2)-(3), (5) (extension eligibility, 4-year exit rule, and extension deadline)
(2) ... süresi dolan altı aylık çalışma izin döneminin altmış sekiz günden fazla süresini, bir yıllık çalışma izin döneminin yüz otuz beş günden fazla süresini ve iki yıllık çalışma izin döneminin iki yüz yetmiş günden fazla süresini yurt dışında geçirmemiş olması esas... (3) Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti ile arasında Sosyal Güvenlik Anlaşması imzalamış bulunan ülkeler dışındaki ülkelerden gelen yabancı uyruklu işçilerin toplam dört (4) yıl kesintisiz olarak süreli çalışma izni sahibi olmaları halinde her dört (4) yılda bir mevcut çalışma izinleri iptal edilip işçinin yurtdışına çıkışı sağlanır. Yabancı uyruklu işçi için en az kırk beş (45) gün yurt dışında geçirdikten sonra ön izin almak suretiyle yeni çalışma izni için başvurulabilir. ... (5) Süresi sona eren Süreli Çalışma İzninin uzatılması için sürenin bitiminden itibaren en geç kırk (40) gün içinde uzatma başvurusunda bulunulması gerekir.
Translation: “(2) ... the worker must not have spent more than 68 days abroad out of an expired 6-month permit period, more than 135 days out of a 1-year period, or more than 270 days out of a 2-year period ... (3) Foreign workers from countries other than those with a Social Security Agreement signed with the TRNC, who hold 4 consecutive years of Time-limited Work Permit, must have their existing permits cancelled every 4 years and be made to exit the TRNC. After spending at least 45 days abroad, a new work permit may be applied for by obtaining a new Ön İzin. ... (5) An application to extend an expiring Time-limited Work Permit must be made at the latest within 40 days of the permit's expiry.”
Used by
- rules: NCR interpretation: active, unpaid management may fall within the İş Kurma İzni requirement · İş Kurma İzni: the permit test for foreign directors and shareholders is residence plus employer-capacity conduct, not remuneration · Selling your shares or ending your directorship invalidates the İş Kurma İzni · Initial Time-limited Work Permit duration: 6 months to 1 year · Standard work-permit process: preliminary permit required before entry · A Time-limited Work Permit becomes legally invalid when the employment relationship ends · A Time-limited Work Permit is valid only for the named employer, workplace and profession
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src-mevzuat-yabancilarin-calisma-izinleri-tuzugu-2026 - Free Port and Zone Law, No. 26/1983, consolidated through amending Laws 41/1988, 37/1996, 37/2002 and 28/2011
26/1983 Sayılı Serbest Liman ve Bölge Yasası
Famagusta Free Port and Zone Directorate, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 24 March 1983 · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full 19-page / 39-article text plus schedules read, cross-verified against an independent mirror..
Reading note: Byte-verified download (354,666 bytes, HTTP 200, Content-Type application/pdf).
Editorial note: Read in full by NCR Editorial, from the administering authority's own current site (sliman.gov.ct.tr), and cross-verified word-for-word (after whitespace/font-encoding normalisation) against a second independent mirror (ktto.net, 2014-dated). This closed the largest missing primary source previously identified in the Investing vertical. 19 pages, 39 substantive articles plus three schedules. Confirms income/corporate-tax exemption (Art. 17) and customs-duty exemption (Art. 16) on qualifying zone activities not sold into the TRNC's domestic market, and an explicit unconditional capital-repatriation freedom (Art. 28(3), quoted above). Contains no VAT-specific provision — the widely repeated '0% VAT' figure is not grounded in this text. A comprehensive reform bill was reported before the Assembly as of 3 July 2026 (not yet enacted as of the 20 September 2026 cutoff) that would expand zone-creation power and allow private/foreign zone operation.
Quoted passages (1)
Article 28(3)
Yukarıdaki fıkralarda belirtilenler dışında kalan herhangi bir dövizin, Devlet nezdinde döviz pozisyonu tutmaya yetkili bankalara (Dış Hesap) devri, bu bankalardan yeniden yurt dışına transferi, Serbest Bölge bankalarına getirilmesi ve bu bankalardan diğer ülkelere transferi serbesttir.
Translation: “The transfer of any foreign currency other than that specified in the above paragraphs to banks authorised to hold a foreign-currency position with the State (External Account), its re-transfer abroad from those banks, its being brought into Free-Zone banks, and its transfer from those banks to other countries, is free.”
Used by
- rules: Free Port and Zone: capital and earnings may be freely transferred abroad · Free Port and Zone: income/corporate-tax and customs exemption on qualifying zone activity
- claims: TRNC codifies an explicit capital/profit-repatriation freedom only for two special vehicles: International Business Companies (Law 38/2005, Article 13(4)) and Free Port/Zone enterprises (Law 26/1983, Article 28(3), already published as freezone-capital-repatriation-freedom). An ordinary TRNC company relies instead on the general currency-freedom provisions of the Currency and Exchange Law 38/1997, not a dedicated investment-law repatriation guarantee.
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src-free-port-zone-law-26-1983 - Higher Education Law No. 65/2005 (Yükseköğretim Yasası)
65/2005 Sayılı Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Yükseköğretim Yasası
Ministry of National Education and Culture, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Article 7 (YÖDAK's establishment) and Article 11 (YÖDAK's duties and powers, all sub-paragraphs) read in full; a full-text search for 'denklik' (equivalency) across the whole document was also run..
Reading note: Targeted specifically at verifying YÖDAK's statutory basis and searching for any foreign-student immigration/health coordination duty. Articles 1-6, 8-10, 12-22 and the transitional provisions were not read.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, specifically to independently verify the statutory basis of YÖDAK, which had previously been described only on secondary-sourced, uncorroborated notes as 'established by Law 2/1993, restructured under Law 65/2005'. Primary-verified correction: Article 7 of this Law (65/2005, RG Sayı 214, 13 December 2005) is itself YÖDAK's establishing provision — Law 2/1993 is a separate instrument (Yüksek Öğrenim ve Dış İlişkiler Dairesi (Kuruluş, Görev ve Çalışma Esasları) Yasası) establishing YÖDİD, the Higher Education and Foreign Relations Department, a different body with a different function (international-relations administration, not accreditation/planning). This Law and YÖDİD's founding law were not previously distinguished in NCR's existing notes; this source record makes the distinction explicit. Separately, Article 11(2)(L) is a genuinely new, well-evidenced finding: YÖDAK carries an explicit statutory duty to coordinate foreign students' immigration, health and social-security matters with the relevant Ministries — direct primary confirmation that a named TRNC authority has a defined role at the intersection of higher education, immigration and health. Read selectively; this is a 54-page, 22-article instrument and only the establishment, composition and duties/powers provisions (Articles 7-12) were read in full in search of the establishing clause and any foreign-student-specific duties — the remainder (funding, discipline, transitional provisions) has not been read.
Quoted passages (2)
Article 7 (Establishment of YÖDAK)
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetindeki yükseköğretimi, bu Yasa ile kendisine verilen yetki ve görevler çerçevesinde planlamak, düzenlemek, uygulanmasını gözetmek ve denetlemek ve yükseköğretim kurumlarının akreditasyon işlemlerini yürütmek, faaliyetlerini yönlendirmek ve yükseköğretim kurumları arasında koordinasyonu sağlamak üzere ve kamu tüzel kişiliğine sahip bir Yükseköğretim Planlama, Denetleme, Akreditasyon ve Koordinasyon Kurulu kurulur. Kurulun kısa adı "YÖDAK"'tır.
Translation: “A Higher Education Planning, Supervision, Accreditation and Coordination Board, possessing public legal personality, is established to plan, regulate, oversee and supervise the implementation of higher education in the TRNC within the framework of the powers and duties given to it by this Law, and to carry out the accreditation procedures of higher education institutions, direct their activities, and ensure coordination among higher education institutions. The Board's short name is "YÖDAK".”
Article 11(2)(L) (YÖDAK's duty to coordinate foreign students' immigration/health/social-security matters)
Yabancı öğrencilerin muhaceret işlemleri, sağlık veya diğer sosyal güvenlik ile ilgili işlemlerini ilgili Bakanlıklar ile koordine etmek.
Translation: “To coordinate foreign students' immigration procedures, and their health or other social-security-related procedures, with the relevant Ministries.”
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src-yuksekogretim-yasasi-65-2005 - Holiday Homes Law, No. 54/2025
54/2025 Sayılı Tatil Evleri Yasası
Tourism Planning Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 1 December 2025 · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full 29-page text read..
Reading note: Genuine text-based PDF (object-structure verified before fetch, no OCR needed).
Editorial note: Recovered by NCR Editorial as a byproduct of the Fasıl 138 (Hotels Law) search — not previously known to NCR at all, not merely unread. In force from 1 March 2026. 29 pages, genuine text PDF, read in full. Establishes a mandatory registration and operating-licence regime for short-term tourist lettings (up to 60 days per stay), administered by the Turizm Planlama Dairesi (Tourism Planning Department) under a Ministry for Tourism Affairs, covering eligible property types, physical/occupancy standards, a two-stage registration-and-licence process with class-based fees, owner/guest obligations (guest-registration form, 3-working-day police-forwarding duty, 90-day retention), administrative penalties, and a sealing/closure power for unlicensed operation. A transitional clause gives pre-existing operators 4 months from entry into force to comply. This is the single highest-value primary-source recovery in this domain: it converts NCR's previously most-flagged unresolved Property question (short-term-rental licensing) from a conflict/legal-review framing to a directly, currently, primarily answerable one. Cites the Wills and Succession/Administration of Estates framework (Fasıl 189, Terekelerin İdaresi Yasası) twice by name for post-death registration transfer, independently corroborating that recovery. Cites the Public Receivables Collection Procedure Law (Kamu Alacaklarının Tahsili Usulü Yasası) for penalty collection, without stating the rate.
Used by
- rules: Short-term/holiday-home letting is subject to a licensing regime, under the Holiday Homes Law
- claims: A holiday-home operator licensed under the Holiday Homes Law No. 54/2025 must record each guest's registration details and forward a copy to the Police within 3 working days of a guest's stay, retaining the records for 90 days.
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src-tatil-evleri-yasasi-54-2025 - Hotels Law, Fasıl 138, consolidated through amending Law 14/2026
Fasıl 138 Oteller Yasası
Tourism Planning Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full 11-page / 15-article text plus fee schedules read..
Reading note: Object-structure check confirmed a genuine text PDF before reading; overturns an earlier 'unreadable scanned PDF' classification.
Editorial note: This document was previously classified as an unreadable scanned PDF; a later reading re-tested it directly, inspected the PDF's own object structure (found /Font resources and zero /XObject image objects — a genuine text-based PDF, not a scan) and read it in full: 11 pages, 15 articles plus two fee schedules, consolidated through its most recent amending Law 14/2026 (24 March 2026). Defines 'Otel' as a building where board/lodging is provided by an 'otelci' (hotel-keeper) who holds a licence from the Oteller Kurulu (Hotels Board). This definition does not obviously capture a self-catering short-term rental with no on-site manager providing food service — supporting the newly recovered Holiday Homes Law 54/2025 (src-tatil-evleri-yasasi-54-2025), not this Law, as the operative regime for ordinary Airbnb-style lettings. The earlier 'unreadable' verdict appears to have been either mistaken or based on a since-refreshed government file.
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src-oteller-yasasi-fasil-138 - Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Lease (Aliens) Law, No. 52/2008, consolidated with amending Law 39/2024
52/2008 Sayılı Taşınmaz Mal Edinme ve Uzun Vadeli Kiralama (Yabancılar) Yasası (39/2024 sayılı Yasa ile Değiştirilmiş ve Birleştirilmiş şekli ile)
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 10 November 2008 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. The whole consolidated text, in Turkish.
Reading note: Source's own notes state: "Read in full in Turkish..."
Editorial note: Original law adopted unanimously by the Assembly on 10 November 2008. This consolidated text incorporates the amendments made by Law 39/2024 (Official Gazette No. 102, 21 May 2024). Read in full in Turkish on 14 September 2026.
Used by
- rules: Application service fee: half the monthly gross minimum wage · Companies with foreign shareholders may buy investment land up to 80,280 m² · A separate unit title must exist before a foreigner applies · Registrations contrary to the law are void · Criminal-record certificate and security investigation · Caps on the share of land that may be sold to foreigners · Foreign legal entities need permission after a security check of their people · Who counts as a "foreigner" · Transfers between foreigners are subject to the same restrictions · Foreigners may mortgage what they own and take mortgages · Long-term leases: ten to ninety-nine years, registered within thirty days · Agricultural and forest land cannot be sold to foreigners · Applications are made online with documents set by Ministry circular · Penalties: fines of up to five hundred times the monthly gross minimum wage · A share transfer or director change in a property-owning TRNC company can trigger property-acquisition rules · PTP criminal-record certificate: currently must be apostilled and no more than three months old · Foreigners need Council of Ministers permission to buy or lease long-term · Re-applying after cancellation costs double; no third application · No share titles in land; up to three foreigners may share a house or apartment · Statutory acquisition limit: one property per foreigner · Investment-purpose purchases outside the limits (statutory threshold) · Statutory cap on foreign ownership within one parcel · Statutory deadline: taxes and fees within sixty business days · Statutory deadline: transfer within six months of the permission being published · Taxes and fees on transfers are payable under the general tax laws · Trustee agreements may not be used to exceed the limits
- claims: Law 52/2008, the Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Lease (Aliens) Law, was adopted unanimously by the TRNC Assembly on 10 November 2008 and repealed the earlier Acquisition of Immovable Property (Aliens) Law. · A Council of Ministers decision granting a foreigner permission to buy is published in the Official Gazette, and the deadlines for completing the transfer and paying the taxes and fees run from that publication date.
- regulatory events: The law on property purchases by foreigners is adopted · The rules for foreign buyers are rewritten by amendment law
- guides: How does the buying process work? · Can foreigners buy property in Northern Cyprus? · Is it safe to buy property in Northern Cyprus? · What is Permission to Purchase? · What should a foreign buyer verify before buying?
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src-law-52-2008-consolidated - Incentive Law, No. 47/2000 (consolidated with amendment laws 46/2002, 44/2003, 3/2004, 13/2014, 26/2014)
47/2000 Sayılı Teşvik Yasası
State Planning Organization, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full.
Editorial note: Read in full (all 16 articles plus transitional provisions) by NCR Editorial, from the State Planning Organization's own hosted PDF. This Law's own scope clause (Art. 4) is TRNC's closest analogue to a foreign-investor definition: it simply extends the same incentive regime to domestic and foreign persons without a separate definitional threshold. No dedicated 'Yatırımların Teşviki ve Yönlendirilmesine İlişkin Tüzük' (the key implementing regulation referenced throughout this Law, which would set the specific rates for items 7-8 above) was located despite searching devplan.org and mevzuat.gov.ct.tr — a genuine gap.
Quoted passages (5)
Article 4 (Kapsam — scope, nationality-neutral)
Bu Yasa, ülkenin ekonomik ve sosyal kalkınmasına katkıda bulunacak yerli ve yabancı gerçek ve tüzel kişilerin yapacakları yatırımların ve ihracatın teşvik edilmesine, düzenlenmesine ve denetlenmesine ilişkin kuralları kapsar.
Translation: “This Law covers rules on incentivising, regulating and supervising investments and exports to be made by domestic and foreign natural and legal persons that will contribute to the country's economic and social development.”
Article 5(1) (competent authority)
Translation: “The State Planning Organization (DPÖ) is the competent authority for incentive certificates/permits, subject to obtaining the relevant Ministry's opinion.”
Article 7 (incentive measures, 8 categories)
Translation: “(1) Investment deduction: 200% of cost value in DPÖ-designated Priority Development Regions/Specially Important Sectors, 100% elsewhere; (2) customs duty/fund exemption on imported investment machinery; (3) VAT exemption on machinery/equipment; (4) priority (not entitlement) for leasing State real property, subject to availability; (5) long-term low-interest credit via intermediary banks; (6) exemption from construction-permit taxes/fees; (7) stamp-tax reduction on capital increases (rate set by an unlocated Tüzük); (8) fee reduction on mortgage transactions (rate set by an unlocated Tüzük).”
Article 8 (clawback/revocation)
Translation: “DPÖ, after consulting the relevant Ministry, may partially or wholly withdraw incentives if certificate conditions are not properly met, investment integrity is compromised, loan principal/interest is not paid on schedule, or incentive-related documents are falsified/misleading. Recovery proceeds via the Revenue and Tax Office under the Public Receivables Collection Procedure Law, with a late-payment surcharge.”
Article 12 (criminal penalties)
Translation: “Up to 7 years' imprisonment and/or a fine up to 20x minimum wage for incentive fraud, plus repayment at market value and up to a 100% penalty on the benefit obtained.”
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src-incentive-law-47-2000 - International Business Companies Law, No. 38/2005 (as amended by 27/2007)
38/2005 Sayılı Uluslararası İşletme Şirketleri Yasası
Ministry of Economy and Energy, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full.
Editorial note: Read in full (all 28 articles plus 2 transitional articles) by NCR Editorial, from the Ministry of Economy's own official PDF. This is a SEPARATE, niche offshore-oriented company regime from ordinary Cap 113 incorporation — not the default/typical route for a foreign investor wanting an operating TRNC business, though IBC registration is still processed by the Registrar of Companies 'under Companies Law rules' (Art. 7(3)). CORRECTS A WRONG FIGURE found in secondary/professional sources: several company-formation marketing sites state the IBC tax rate as '1%' — this is directly verified as WRONG against the Ministry's own hosted primary text, which states 2.5% (Art. 13(1)).
Quoted passages (7)
Article 4 (eligible applicants)
Translation: “Applicants for International Business Company (IBC) status may be: foreign natural persons; foreign legal persons; or TRNC citizens permanently resident abroad. Not available to ordinary TRNC-resident persons/companies.”
Article 5 (minimum capital)
Translation: “Paid-up capital may not be below EUR 20,000.”
Article 9-10 (offshore-only activity restriction)
Translation: “An IBC must conduct business wholly offshore and earn income only from abroad; it cannot obtain financing from the TRNC state, TRNC banks, credit companies, or TRNC persons.”
Article 13(1), (3)-(5) (tax treatment)
Uluslararası İşletme Şirketleri, ... %2,5 (yüzde iki buçuk) oranında vergiye bağlı tutulur.
Translation: “(1) International Business Companies are subject to tax at 2.5%, on the tax base as otherwise computed under Corporate/Income Tax Law rules, payable within 5 months of period-end. (3) No tax on dividends they distribute. (4) No withholding/VAT/any tax on interest, royalties, fees or service payments made to persons outside the TRNC. (5) Not subject to immovable-property tax; shareholders/nominees exempt from inheritance/income/corporate tax on share transfers.”
Article 17 (local-staffing requirement)
Translation: “An IBC operating with a TRNC office must employ staff including at least one TRNC citizen (foreign staff capped at 3x TRNC-citizen staff); an IBC operating without a TRNC office must have at least one director who is a TRNC citizen.”
Article 18 (annual business fee)
Translation: “EUR 2,000/year (with a TRNC office) or EUR 5,000/year (without a TRNC office).”
Article 20-22 (nominee shareholder licensing)
Translation: “'Emanetçiler' (nominee shareholders) must be Ministry-licensed; a licence requires TRNC citizenship, 5 years' continuous TRNC residence, and no conviction for a crime of moral turpitude.”
Used by
- rules: The International Business Company regime: an offshore-only, 2.5%-tax vehicle
- claims: TRNC codifies an explicit capital/profit-repatriation freedom only for two special vehicles: International Business Companies (Law 38/2005, Article 13(4)) and Free Port/Zone enterprises (Law 26/1983, Article 28(3), already published as freezone-capital-repatriation-freedom). An ordinary TRNC company relies instead on the general currency-freedom provisions of the Currency and Exchange Law 38/1997, not a dedicated investment-law repatriation guarantee.
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src-ibc-law-38-2005 - Law 67/2005 for the Compensation, Exchange and Restitution of Immovable Properties which are within the scope of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 1 of Article 159 of the Constitution (English text published by the Commission)
Immovable Property Commission · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Reading note: The note on record concerns an unverified gazette date, not a content read.
Editorial note: English text as published by the Immovable Property Commission. The gazette date of the law is not stated in this text and has not been verified by us.
Used by
- claims: Under Law 67/2005, natural or legal persons claiming rights to immovable property within the scope of Article 159(1)(b) of the TRNC Constitution may apply to the Immovable Property Commission for restitution, exchange or compensation; the burden of proof rests on the applicant, who must satisfy the Commission beyond any reasonable doubt that the property was registered in their name (or that of the person from whom they derive title) before 1974; and the Commission decides after hearing the parties.
- regulatory events: The Immovable Property Commission is established in the north
- conflicts: Who owns property in the north that was registered to a Greek Cypriot before 1974?
- guides: Property disputes, the European Court of Human Rights and the Immovable Property Commission · Title deeds and ownership risk
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src-law-67-2005-ipc-english - Law No. 25/2026, Income Tax (Amendment) Law — current annual tax brackets and rates, replacing Article 52(1) of Income Tax Law No. 24/1982 (within Official Gazette No. 95 of 21 May 2026)
Gelir Vergisi (Değişiklik) Yasası, Sayı: 25/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 95, EK I Bölüm I, 21 Mayıs 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 21 May 2026 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Article 2 (replacing Article 52(1), the tax bracket table) read in full and quoted; the rest of this Gazette issue (including the separate Law 26/2026 cooperation agreement) was not read..
Reading note: Found incidentally while checking Income Tax Law currentness for the residency-test article; not the original target of the search.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, found while checking whether any enacted Income Tax Law amendment since 2001-2013 (the vintage of NCR's consolidated .doc copy) touches Article 2 (the residency test) — this instrument does not touch Article 2; it amends Article 52(1), the tax bracket/rate table, and repeals a prior Decree ('Gelir Vergisi Matrah Dilimlerinin Yeniden Düzenlenmesine İlişkin Yasa Gücünde Kararname') that previously governed this table. Effective from Gazette publication, 21 May 2026. This is the current bracket structure as of this reading, independently confirmed, but this source is scoped only to recording the figures — no interpretation of how they interact with the 655,000 TL Personal Deduction Amount (a separate, already Founder-approved record) has been attempted; that interaction (for example, whether the deduction is subtracted before the brackets apply) is not confirmed from this reading alone and remains open. The same combined Gazette issue (95/2026) also contains an unrelated, separately noteworthy instrument: Law 26/2026, a labour/employment/social-security cooperation agreement between the TRNC and Republic of Türkiye Ministries of Labour and Social Security — found but not yet read, flagged as a research lead for a future Social Insurance or cross-border-employment investigation, not represented by this source record.
Quoted passages (1)
Article 2, replacing Article 52(1) of the Income Tax Law
"(l) Bu Yasanın kesin vergi yükümlülüğüne ilişkin kuralları ile bu Yasanın 31'inci maddesinin (7)'nci fıkrası ve 32'nci maddesinin (5)'inci ve (6)'ncı fıkralarındaki kurallar saklı kalmak koşuluyla, gelir vergisi aşağıda belirtilen yıllık matrah dilimleri ve vergi oranlarında tarh edilir: YILLIK MATRAH DİLİMLERİ / VERGİ ORANLARI: İlk 45,000.-TL için %10; Sonra gelen 45,000.-TL için %20; Sonra gelen 120,000.-TL için %25; Sonra gelen 190,000.-TL için %30; 400,000.-TL'den sonrası için %37 oranı uygulanır."
Translation: “"(1) Subject to this Law's final tax liability rules and the rules in Article 31(7) and Article 32(5)-(6), income tax is assessed at the following annual tax base brackets and rates: ANNUAL TAX BASE BRACKETS / TAX RATES: first 45,000 TL: 10%; next 45,000 TL: 20%; next 120,000 TL: 25%; next 190,000 TL: 30%; the portion above 400,000 TL: 37%."”
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src-gazette-2026-095-law-25-2026 - Law No. 26/2026, ratifying a Labour, Employment and Social Security Cooperation Agreement between the TRNC and the Republic of Türkiye — a cooperation framework, not a totalization/Social Security Agreement (within Official Gazette No. 95 of 21 May 2026)
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Hükümeti ile Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Hükümeti Arasında Çalışma, İstihdam ve Sosyal Güvenlik Alanlarında İş Birliği Anlaşması'nın Onaylanmasına İlişkin Yasa, Sayı: 26/2026
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 21 May 2026 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full instrument (13 articles plus signature block) read directly..
Reading note: Read specifically to test its relevance to Article 17(3)'s Social Security Agreement concept — found not individually operative and not itself that agreement.
Editorial note: Read in full by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, specifically to determine whether this instrument is, or affects, the 'Sosyal Güvenlik Anlaşması' (Social Security Agreement) that Foreigners' Work Permits Regulation Article 17(3) refers to. Finding: this is a government-to-government cooperation/coordination framework agreement, signed 19 November 2025 in Ankara — it establishes areas of cooperation (labour relations, labour-market policy, foreign employment/migration policy, occupational safety, social security system organisation, health-insurance policy, and 'implementation of social security agreements' as one topic among others), forms of cooperation (information/expertise exchange, mutual visits, conferences, joint projects), a joint working commission, and designated coordination units (the TRNC Ministry of Labour and Social Security; the Republic of Türkiye's Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Directorate General of Foreign Relations and EU). It does not itself establish individual worker rights, contribution totalization, or insurance-period coordination — Article 2(b)(3)'s own phrasing ('implementation of social security agreements') implies a separate, already-existing agreement this framework helps administer, rather than being that agreement itself. Each party bears its own costs (Article 7) — not a benefit-funding arrangement. It replaces an earlier 1999 TRNC-Türkiye cooperation protocol on the same general subject (Article 13(3)). Its own entry into force is conditional on both parties completing domestic ratification and exchanging written notification (Article 13(1)) — not automatic on this Law's own Gazette publication; whether that mutual notification exchange has occurred has not been established. This is a framework/cooperation agreement, not individually operative legal rights, and it does not appear to be, and should not be treated as, the 'Sosyal Güvenlik Anlaşması' contemplated by Work Permit Regulation Article 17(3) or Social Security Law Article 6(1)(E) — that remains a separate, unlocated instrument.
Quoted passages (2)
Article 2(b)(3) (areas of cooperation — social security)
b) Sosyal güvenlik ... 3. Sosyal güvenlik anlaşmalarının uygulanması,
Translation: “b) Social security ... 3. Implementation of social security agreements,”
Article 13(1) and (3) (entry into force and repeal of predecessor)
(1) Anlaşma, her iki Tarafın ulusal mevzuatında öngörülen onay sürecine tabi olup, Tarafların iç hukuki süreçlerinin tamamlandığını birbirlerine diplomatik kanallar aracılığıyla bildirdikleri son yazılı bildirimin alındığı tarihte yürürlüğe girer. ... (3) Bu Anlaşma'nın yürürlüğe girdiği tarihte, 30 Haziran 1999 tarihinde Lefkoşa'da imzalanan ve aynı tarihte yürürlüğe giren 'Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı ile Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı Arasında İşbirliği Protokolü' yürürlükten kaldırılır ve bu Anlaşma onun yerine geçer.
Translation: “(1) The Agreement is subject to the approval process prescribed in each Party's domestic legislation and enters into force on the date the last written notification is received by which the Parties inform each other, through diplomatic channels, that their internal legal processes have been completed. ... (3) On the date this Agreement enters into force, the 'Cooperation Protocol between the TRNC Ministry of Labour and Social Security and the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Labour and Social Security', signed in Nicosia on 30 June 1999 and effective from that same date, is repealed and this Agreement takes its place.”
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src-gazette-2026-095-law-26-2026 - Law No. 27/2026, the Aliens and Immigration (Amendment) Law creating the 2026 immigration amnesty (within Official Gazette No. 98 of 26 May 2026)
Yabancılar ve Muhaceret (Değişiklik) Yasası, Sayı: 27/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 98, EK I Bölüm I, 26 Mayıs 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 26 May 2026 · accessed 18 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Geçici Madde 31(1)-(2)(A)-(B) directly quoted and verified; the remaining Geçici Madde 32-38 read via a secondary summary and spot-checked for internal consistency but not independently re-quoted line by line.
Reading note: The core general-track provision (Geçici Madde 31) was independently fetched and read directly, not merely taken from a secondary summary.
Editorial note: Read in full that day, resolving a gap the 2026-09-17 residence-regulation investigation explicitly left open (it found six consistent press reports of an amnesty but could not identify the underlying instrument). Independently fetched and read directly by NCR Editorial from the Official Gazette itself, and cross-checked against NCR's own local Gazette registry (an internal copy, issue 98, date 2026-05-26, title 'YABANCILAR VE MUHACERET (DEĞİŞİKLİK)YASASI' — both an exact match). Inserts eight new Geçici Madde (Temporary Articles) 31-38 into the base Aliens and Immigration Law, Cap. 105: a 45-day online application window (~26 May-9 July 2026) for those already subject to an unenforced arrest-deportation order, paying a fine equal to the prevailing monthly gross minimum wage (a floating figure, not a fixed sum written into the law); a parallel track for those abroad and entry-banned with a first-degree relative in TRNC; family-member, minor-exemption, citizen-spouse and student-specific tracks; and fixed processing-deadline guarantees for the Immigration Department. Not the same instrument as Law 44/2026 (Gazette 119, 25 June 2026), a different, unrelated fee-schedule amendment already tracked as event-2026-06-25-law-44-2026-immigration-fees.
Quoted passages (1)
Geçici Madde 31(1)-(2)(A)-(B) (general in-country track)
[Onaylanan başvuru sahipleri] Gelir ve Vergi Dairesinin çevrimiçi sistemi üzerinden 10 (on) gün içerisinde yürürlükteki aylık brüt asgari ücret tutarındaki miktarı yatırmak koşuluyla, bu (Değişiklik) Yasasından faydalanmaya hak kazanmış olurlar ve cezanın geri kalanından sorumlu tutulmazlar. (2)(A) Bu (Değişiklik) Yasasının yürürlüğe girdiği tarihten önce, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde izinsiz olarak ikamet ettiğinin ve/veya izinsiz olarak çalıştığının tespit edilmesi üzerine Muhaceret Dairesi tarafından aleyhinde tutuklama-ihraç kararı alınan ancak aleyhlerinde alınan bu karar herhangi bir sebeple uygulanamayan yabancı uyruklu kişiler, bu (Değişiklik) Yasasının yürürlüğe girdiği tarihten başlayarak 45 (kırk beş) gün içerisinde Muhaceret Dairesinin ilgili web portalına çevrimiçi başvuru yapar.
Translation: “[Approved applicants,] on condition that they pay, within 10 days through the Tax Office's online system, an amount equal to the prevailing monthly gross minimum wage, become entitled to benefit from this (Amendment) Law and are not held liable for the rest of the penalty. (2)(A) Foreign nationals against whom the Immigration Department has issued an arrest-deportation order — on finding them to be staying and/or working in the TRNC without authorisation before this (Amendment) Law's entry into force — but whose order could not be enforced for any reason, must apply online to the Immigration Department's relevant web portal within 45 days from this (Amendment) Law's entry into force.”
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src-gazette-2026-098-law-27-2026 - Ministry of Health, TRNC — official "Laws" (YASALAR) legislation listing
Sağlık Bakanlığı — Sağlık Mevzuatı / Yasalar
Ministry of Health, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full page read (the complete list of 8 laws linked from this page) plus the companion Regulations (TÜZÜKLER) page..
Reading note: Read specifically to search for the Health Fund Law; the page's full document list was examined, not sampled.
Editorial note: Read directly by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, specifically to search for the 'Sağlık Fonu Yasası' (Health Fund Law) referenced without a number/year by Article 15(8) of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation. Result: source not found. This is the Ministry of Health's own, complete, current listing of laws it administers, and the Health Fund Law is not among the 8 instruments listed. The companion Regulations (TÜZÜKLER) page under the same Sağlık Mevzuatı section was also checked and returned no document listing at all (likely JS-rendered or empty at the crawled URL) and no genuine textual match for 'fon' (all apparent matches were 'font-awesome' CSS boilerplate, a false positive). This is now the third independent search for this instrument (an earlier Gazette full-year title search, mevzuat.gov.ct.tr filename/TÜZÜKLER-page checks, and this direct check of the administering Ministry's own legislation pages), with a consistent negative result each time. This does not prove the Health Fund Law does not exist — Article 15(8) of the Residence Regulation names it directly as a real, applied requirement — only that its text has not yet been located through any channel tried so far. Genuinely unresolved; not to be treated as evidence the requirement itself is doubtful.
Quoted passages (1)
Complete list of laws published on this page, as of 2026-09-19
1-2020 Tüketicilerin Korunmasına İlişkin [Yasa]; 6-2009 Kamu Sağlık Çalışanları [Yasası]; 23-2001 Kozmetik Ürünleri Yasası; 23-2021 Kan ve Kan Bileşenleri Yasası; 28-2016 Uyuşturucu Madde Bağımlıları ve Kullanıcıları Hak. Denetimli Serbestlik Yasası; 33-1983 Diş Teknisyenlerinin Görev ve Çalışma Usulleri [Yasası]; 34-2007 (Yataklı Tedavi Kurumları Dairesi) [Yasası]; İnsan Hücre Doku ve Organ Nakli ile İlgili Kuralları Düzenleyen Yasa.
Translation: “Consumer Protection Law 1/2020 (health-relevant provisions); Public Health Workers Law 6/2009; Cosmetic Products Law 23/2001; Blood and Blood Components Law 23/2021; Law on the Rights of Drug-Dependent Persons and Users Concerning Supervised Probation 28/2016; Dental Technicians' Duties and Working Procedures Law 33/1983; Hospital Institutions (Yataklı Tedavi Kurumları) Department Law 34/2007; Law Regulating Rules Relating to Human Tissue, Cell and Organ Transplantation.”
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src-saglik-bakanligi-mevzuat-yasalar - Motor Vehicle Age Limitation Regulation, made under the Foreign Trade (Regulation and Supervision) Law, latest consolidation dated 12 May 2026
Motorlu Taşıt Araçları Yaş Sınırlandırılması Tüzüğü
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Definitions and Articles 3-6 read in substantial part..
Reading note: Not read cover to cover.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. Made under the Foreign Trade (Regulation and Supervision) Law, administered by the Ministry of Trade — a genuinely different Ministry from the one governing driving licences/vehicle registration (Transport). General import age limit: 5 years (cars/motorcycles/non-standard vehicles), 12 years (motor caravans), with a narrow force-majeure grace period (60 days, Trade Department Director's discretion) and a 25-year 'classic car' exemption for vehicles registered with a recognised club. Left-hand-drive vehicles are generally barred from import except categories the Motor Vehicles Law separately permits. Article 6/Article 2(B) is directly relevant to NCR's property-owner audience: a genuine, primary-verified one-time exemption route for relocating foreign settlers.
Quoted passages (3)
Article 5(1) (import age limit)
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetine ithal edilen binek otomobiline, mutat olmayan araca ve motosiklete... ilk kayıt tarihinden itibaren beş yaşını doldurmuş olması halinde ithal izni verilmez.
Translation: “An import permit is not granted for a passenger car, non-standard vehicle or motorcycle imported into the TRNC once it has reached five years of age from its first registration date.”
Article 6 ("Yerleşmeye Gelen Kişilerin Hakları" — Rights of Persons Coming to Settle)
[A person relocating to settle in the TRNC may import, once only, one vehicle already registered in their own name before arrival, exempt from the 5-year age limit.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 2(B) (eligibility conditions for the settler's one-time import right, foreign nationals)
[Must intend to settle permanently; must prove ownership of a home in the TRNC (title deed or Tax-Department-stamped sale contract) OR hold an Immigration Department residence permit tied to property ownership OR a 'high income' residence permit plus a rental contract; must prove at least 2 months' prior residence via Police General Directorate documentation; must not be a student; must be 28 or older; must not previously have used this same one-time right.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
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src-vehicle-age-limit-tuzuk - Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Insurance) Law, Cap. 333, consolidated to amendment 19/2008
Motorlu Araçlar (Üçüncü Şahıs Sigortası) Yasası, Fasıl 333
Insurance Superintendent / Department of Money, Exchange and Development Fund Affairs, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Cross-checked against a second, independently-sourced copy (Republic of Cyprus's own cylaw.org consolidation of the same shared-origin Cap)..
Reading note: Confirmed as a genuine cross-reference only, given the explicit jurisdiction caveat — did not replace or upgrade this record's primary citation.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026: read in full (18 articles) from an insurance-sector-hosted PDF (web.kksbm.org), not mevzuat.gov.ct.tr directly. The text itself explicitly names 'Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti' in Article 18(1)(e), confirming this mirror carries the TRNC's own applicable version, not a generic shared-Cap text. Article 18(1)(e) confirms the legal hook for a border/temporary-visitor motor-insurance regime exists, but the actual implementing Tüzük for it has not been located or read — everything about whether foreign-plated vehicles (for example crossing from Türkiye or the Republic of Cyprus) need TRNC-specific insurance at entry rests on unverified secondary/commercial sources claiming the TRNC is not part of the international Green Card insurance system. A later cross-check located the Republic of Cyprus's own current consolidated text of the same shared-origin Cap at https://www.cylaw.org/nomoi/enop/non-ind/0_333/full.html (66,672 bytes, byte-complete) as a cross-reference, not as a replacement for this TRNC-specific mirror — the ROC text is independently amended and may diverge from the TRNC's own applicable figures (for example the Euro-denominated caps above), so it should be used only to sanity-check the unamended core, never as the primary citation for a TRNC-specific figure. This source's own government-vs-mirror provenance question therefore remains open; the correct next step is locating mevzuat.gov.ct.tr's own copy directly, not substituting the ROC consolidation.
Quoted passages (5)
Article 3(1) (compulsory insurance mandate)
...hiç bir kimse herhangi bir yol üzerinde motorlu taşıt aracı kullanamaz... meğer ki... bu kimseyi... kapsayan ve bu Yasa kurallarına uygun olarak ısdar edilmiş bulunan geçerli bir poliçe mevcut olsun.
Translation: “No person may drive a motor vehicle on any road unless a valid policy covering that person, issued in accordance with this Law, is in force.”
Article 3(2)-(4) (penalty for driving uninsured)
[Fine of up to 3x monthly minimum wage or up to 1 year imprisonment; court may additionally disqualify from holding/obtaining a licence for a minimum of 6 months (first offence) or 12 months (repeat, or combined with certain Road Traffic Law offences).]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 4(1)(b) (minimum statutory coverage)
[Minimum coverage: death/bodily injury, emergency medical treatment costs, and property damage, excluding contractual liabilities, cargo being loaded/unloaded, and property damage above a cap the Council of Ministers may raise by Tüzük (originally 50,000 YTL).]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 4(1)(b)(vii) (special higher minimums for passenger transport)
[Buses/minibuses carrying passengers: 5,000,000 Euro per event for death/injury; other vehicles: originally 2,000,000 Euro, rising to 3,000,000 Euro from 1.1.2010 and 5,000,000 Euro from 1.1.2013.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text; these are the Law's own historical uprating figures, likely further revised by a later Tüzük not checked in this pass.”
Article 18(1)(e) (enabling clause for a temporary-visitor/foreign-vehicle insurance regime)
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde geçici bir süre için kalacak olan kişilerin getirdikleri motorlu taşıtlara [ilişkin düzenleme yapma yetkisi]
Translation: “[Power] relating to motor vehicles brought by persons staying temporarily in the TRNC.”
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src-motor-third-party-insurance-cap333 - Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Insurance) Property-Damage Liability Regulation, dated 25 February 2026 (Official Gazette 41), made under Cap. 333 Article 4
Motorlu Araçlar (Üçüncü Şahıs Sigortası) Mal Zararlarına İlişkin Yükümlülükler Tüzüğü
Insurance Superintendent / Department of Money, Exchange and Development Fund Affairs, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full short (7-article) regulation read..
Reading note: Volatile figure — dated to this specific Tüzük's effective date.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. This is the current, in-force minimum property-damage figure, superseding a prior version dated 27 March 2025 — confirming this cap is actively and frequently revised (volatile data: treat this figure as dated to 25 February 2026, not a permanent fact). Confirms 'Sigorta Şirketi' is defined by reference to the Insurance Services (Regulation and Supervision) Law No. 60/2010 — that Law governs which companies may write this specific cover, corroborating the general insurance-regulation research from the motor-insurance side.
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Article 5 (current statutory minimum property-damage coverage)
Sigorta şirketleri tek bir olay sonucu meydana gelen herhangi bir kaza veya zincirleme kazalar için 1.200.000,00 TL (Bir Milyon İki Yüz Bin Türk Lirası)'na kadar olan mal zararlarına ilişkin yükümlülükleri karşılar.
Translation: “Insurance companies cover property-damage liability up to 1,200,000 TL (one million two hundred thousand Turkish Lira) arising from any single accident or chain of accidents resulting from one event.”
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src-motor-property-damage-liability-tuzuk-2026 - Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Law, No. 21/1974, consolidated to amendment 43/2014
Motorlu Araçlar ve Yol Trafik Yasası, 21/1974
Traffic Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full text (all articles plus fee Schedule) read..
Reading note: The implementing Tüzük this Law delegates driving-licence substance to was not located — see notes field.
Editorial note: Read in full by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026 (all around 29 articles plus the fee Schedule) from a .doc file hosted on the Tax Department's own site. The fee Schedule (Parts I-II) sets registration duties by fuel type/weight, driving-licence fees by term length (2/3/5/10-year, plus a discounted 1-year 'first/restricted' category), an International Driving Licence fee item (300 TL, confirming the TRNC itself issues a paid 'international driving licence' product — this does not establish whether an IDP is required for foreign visitors, only that the TRNC issues one), vehicle inspection fees, and export/transfer fees. A critical gap: the actual substantive driving-licence Tüzük this Law delegates to (the '1974 Motorlu Araçlar ve Yol Trafik Tüzüğü') has not been located or read — a previously known scanned-PDF copy could not be re-located, and an HTML mirror is now a dead link (404 confirmed on both http/https). This Tüzük would state exam requirements, minimum age, and licence-term eligibility logic in the regulation's own words.
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Article 28A (executing ministry)
Bu Yasa, Ulaştırma İşleri ile Görevli Bakanlık tarafından yürütülür.
Translation: “This Law is administered by the Ministry responsible for Transport Affairs.”
Article 2 (definition of "visitor" for vehicle/customs purposes)
'ziyaretçi' esas itibariyle Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde ikamet etmeyen ve her halükarda on iki aydan fazla olmayan bir süre için Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde ikamet etmek amacında olan bir şahsı ifade eder.
Translation: “'visitor' means a person not essentially resident in the TRNC who intends to reside there for a period not exceeding twelve months.”
Article 5(1)(B) (delegation of driving-licence eligibility rules to Tüzük)
[The Council of Ministers' regulation-making power covers registration/licensing of vehicles and trailers, plate issuance, the granting of driving licences, the regulation of examinations required for such licences, and the determination of minimum age and required qualifications for a driving licence.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text — all substantive driving-licence eligibility rules are delegated to an implementing Tüzük, not stated in this Law itself.”
Article 20 (disqualification cross-reference to the Third-Party Insurance Law)
[A person disqualified from holding/obtaining a driving licence under this Law or under the Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Insurance) Law commits a further offence if they apply for or use a licence during disqualification.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
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src-motor-vehicles-road-traffic-law-21-1974 - Municipalities Law, No. 51/1995
Belediyeler Yasası, 51/1995
Municipalities, TRNC (Belediyeler) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Articles 81, 82 and 91 read in full for the Property Leasing/short-term-rental research thread..
Reading note: Article 82(1)(A) names hotels/pensions/hostels/private dormitories as requiring prior municipal permission; Article 91(3) defines 'Hotel' for bed-duty purposes to include pensions, holiday villages, hostels, motels and serviced apartments. Neither article explicitly includes nor explicitly excludes an ordinary single privately-owned dwelling let short-term by its owner (for example an Airbnb-style let) — this is a genuine, unresolved ambiguity, not a settled negative or positive finding.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026: downloaded (1.2MB) and text-extracted (244,464 characters, 107 pages); the table of contents was mapped, and Articles 85, 93 and 95 were read in full (not the whole document). Article 95(1) is legislation text confirming water is a municipal, not state, responsibility — cross-confirmed from the water-regulation side by the separate İçme Suyu Tüzüğü (src-drinking-agricultural-water-tuzuk). Does not establish the specific document requirements to open a household account, which are not centrally codified and vary by municipality.
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Article 95(1) (mandatory water supply)
Belediye kendi sınırları içinde her konut ve işyerine içme suyu götürmekle yükümlüdür.
Translation: “A municipality is obliged to bring drinking water to every residence and workplace within its boundaries.”
Article 95(3) (connection permission and disconnection for non-payment)
Su almak için belediyeden izin alınması zorunludur... Kullanıcıların, su ücretini üst üste üç ay ödememesi ve yazılı ihbara rağmen yedi iş günü içerisinde de ödememesi halinde belediye tarafından içme suyu kesilebilir.
Translation: “Municipal permission is mandatory to receive water... Where a user fails to pay the water fee for three consecutive months, and fails to pay within seven working days of a written notice, the municipality may disconnect the drinking-water supply.”
Article 85(4) (Hizmet Resmi collected via electricity bill)
[The annual municipal 'Hizmet Resmi' (covering cleaning, pest control, street-lighting infrastructure) is collected via the electricity bill by the institution(s) billing electricity consumption, and remitted to municipalities quarterly.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 81(1)(A) (general for-profit business permit)
Belediye Sınırları içinde kar gütmek amacıyla bir iş, meslek, ticaret veya zanaatla uğraşmak İsteyenler Belediyeden izin almak zorundadırlar.
Translation: “Anyone wishing to engage, for profit, in a business, profession, trade or craft within municipal boundaries must obtain a permit from the municipality.”
Article 82(1)(A) (hotel/pension/hostel premises require prior written permission)
Belediye sınırları içinde herhangi bir kişi, aşağıda gösterilen yer veya yerleri… Belediyeden önceden yazılı izin almadan açamaz ve çalıştıramaz: (A) Otel, pansiyon, yatıevleri ve özel yurtlar; …
Translation: “No person may open or operate, within municipal boundaries, any of the following premises without obtaining prior written permission from the municipality: (A) hotels, pensions/guesthouses, hostels, and private dormitories; [and other listed premises].”
Article 91(2)-(3) (Otel Resmi — 3% per-person-per-night bed duty; definition of 'Hotel' for this article)
(2) Otellerde kalan veya oturan altı yaşından büyük her kişi için gecede, geceleme ücretinin %3'ü oranında Otel Resmi alınır. (3) Bu madde amaçları bakımından 'Otel', pansiyun, tatil köyü, yatıevi, motel ve hotel apartmanları anlatır.
Translation: “(2) A Hotel Duty of 3% of the nightly rate is collected for every person over six years of age staying or residing in hotels, per night. (3) For the purposes of this article, 'Hotel' means pension, holiday village, hostel, motel, and serviced 'hotel apartments'.”
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src-municipalities-law-51-1995 - National Education Law No. 17/1986 (Milli Eğitim Yasası), as amended through Law 55/2006
17/1986 Sayılı Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Milli Eğitim Yasası
Ministry of National Education and Culture, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Article 3 (Kapsam/Scope), Article 9 (compulsory-education right/duty), Article 28 (compulsory primary-education age), Articles 41-44 (special education: scope, right, aims, establishment), Article 49 (compulsory-education attendance duty, sub-paragraphs 1-7), and Article 53 (private-school licensing, standards, accreditation and penalties, sub-paragraphs (1)(A)-(G) and (2)) read in full and quoted where relevant..
Reading note: Reading was bounded to compulsory education, foreigner applicability, private/international schooling and special-needs education. Not read cover to cover; curriculum, teacher-employment and school-administration provisions were not read.
Editorial note: Currentness gap resolved, 19 September 2026: A.E.543/2021 ('Milli Eğitim Yasası — Zorunlu Eğitim (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü', Gazette issue 159, 15 July 2021 — see src-gazette-2021-159-ae543) has now been fetched and read in full. Finding: it is, in its entirety, a nationwide street-to-school catchment-zone table (assigning streets/neighbourhoods to specific schools, municipality by municipality) with no operative article, no penalty provision, and no applicability language anywhere in its roughly 145 pages. It does not change the Article 49(7) fine amounts or attendance mechanics quoted below — the previously flagged 'possibly stale' caveat is now resolved: those figures are confirmed current as against this specific instrument. A second, narrower amending Tüzük (A.E.323, 'Zorunlu Taşımacılık (Değişiklik)', Gazette issue 98, 4 May 2021) was located by title but not read — likely relevant only to Article 49(4)-(5)'s school-transport provisions, not the penalty or applicability text. No amendment was found in a 2019-2026 Gazette-index search for Article 53 (private schools), Articles 41-44 (special education), or the Higher Education Law 65/2005/YÖDAK — a genuine negative result for those, not simply an unchecked gap. Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. Correctly identified as the TRNC National Education Law after an initial, self-caught mistake: a flattened/linearised reading of the Ministry of Education's laws-listing page (mebnet.net/node/46) had misaligned this title with an unrelated law's number (60/2000, actually the Teacher Academy Establishment Law). Corrected by re-parsing the listing page's raw HTML directly (number/title/link triples), which confirmed 17/1986 (RG Sayı 51, 11 June 1986; amended by 10/1987, 40/1992, 53/2002, 55/2006) as the true National Education Law. This is a 22-page, cleanly typeset PDF extracted without issue. A notable applicability tension: the Law's rights/duty-framing language for compulsory education (Articles 9, 49, and Article 43(3) on special education's aims) consistently uses 'yurttaş' (citizen), while its age/scope-defining language (Article 28's definition of compulsory-primary-education age, Article 41's definition of special-education scope) uses nationality-neutral terms ('çocukların'/children, 'her öğrenci'/every student). Whether TRNC's compulsory-education regime legally binds foreign children, or is, on its own text, a citizen-specific right/duty, is recorded here precisely, not resolved. Read selectively: Articles 3, 9, 28, 41-44, 49 and 53 read in full; the remainder of this 22-page, roughly 48,000-character law (covering curriculum structure, teacher employment, school administration, 'yaygın eğitim'/non-formal education, and other institutional matters) has not been read.
Quoted passages (8)
Article 3 (Scope of the Law)
Bu Yasa, Kıbrıs Türk Milli Eğitiminin düzenlenmesinde temel olan amaç ve ilkeleri; milli eğitim sisteminin genel yapısını ve bu yapı içinde eğitim ve öğretim kurumlarının özel amaç ve görevleri ile işlevlerini; öğretmenlik mesleğini, okul, bina ve tesislerini, eğitim araç ve gereçlerini ve Devletin eğitim ve öğretim alanındaki görev ve sorumluluklarına ilişkin temel kuralları bir sistem bütünlüğü içinde kapsar.
Translation: “This Law covers, as a coherent system, the aims and principles underlying the organisation of Turkish Cypriot National Education; the general structure of the national education system and, within that structure, the specific aims, duties and functions of education and teaching institutions; the teaching profession; schools, buildings and facilities; educational materials and equipment; and the basic rules concerning the State's duties and responsibilities in the field of education and teaching.”
Article 9 (Right and duty of compulsory education)
Her yurttaş, ilköğretim görme hakkına sahiptir. İlköğretim, kız ve erkek bütün yurttaşlar için zorunludur ve Devlet okullarında parasızdır.
Translation: “Every citizen has the right to primary education. Primary education is compulsory for all citizens, male and female, and free in State schools.”
Article 28 (Scope of compulsory primary education)
İlköğretim o yılın 31 Aralık gününden önce altı yaşını tamamlayan çocukların 11 yaşını tamamlayıncaya kadar süren eğitim ve öğretimlerini kapsar. Zorunlu ilköğretim çağı, çocuğun altı yaşını tamamladığı yılın Ağustos ayının son gününü izleyen öğretim yılı başında başlar.
Translation: “Primary education covers the education and instruction of children who complete age six before 31 December of that year, until they complete age eleven. Compulsory primary-education age begins at the start of the school year following the last day of August of the year in which the child completes age six.”
Article 49(1)-(7) (Compulsory-education attendance duty and non-attendance penalties)
Zorunlu eğitimle ilgili uygulama genel esasları, aşağıdaki hususları içeren bir tüzükle düzenlenir: (1) Zorunlu eğitim çağındaki her yurttaşın bir okula devamı zorunludur. (2) Zorunlu eğitim çağındaki yurttaşın devam edeceği okul Bakanlıkça saptanır... (3) Özel eğitime muhtaç bir yurttaşın devam edeceği okul Bakanlıkça saptanır... (7) Çocuğunu okula kaydettirmeyen ve/veya devamını sağlamayan aile velisine aşağıdaki bendlerde öngörülen cezaî müeyyideler uygulanır ve bu gibi öğrencilerin eğitiminin sürdürülmesi için devletçe gerekli önlemler alınır: (A) İlk mahkûmiyette 50.000 Türk Lirasına kadar para cezası; (B) İkinci mahkumiyette 100.000 Türk Lirasına kadar para cezası; (C) Üçüncü mahkumiyette 500.000 Türk Lirasına kadar para cezası ve/veya üç aya kadar hapislik cezası; (Ç) Daha sonraki mahkumiyetlerde altı aya kadar hapislik cezası.
Translation: “The general implementing rules for compulsory education are regulated by a Tüzük (Regulation) covering the following matters: (1) Attendance at a school is compulsory for every citizen of compulsory education age. (2) The school a citizen of compulsory education age is to attend is determined by the Ministry... (3) The school a citizen requiring special education is to attend is determined by the Ministry... (7) The parent/guardian who fails to enrol their child in school and/or fails to ensure the child's attendance is subject to the penal sanctions set out in the following sub-paragraphs, and the State takes the necessary measures to continue such students' education: (A) up to 50,000 Turkish Lira fine on first conviction; (B) up to 100,000 Turkish Lira fine on second conviction; (C) up to 500,000 Turkish Lira fine and/or up to three months' imprisonment on third conviction; (Ç) up to six months' imprisonment on subsequent convictions.”
Article 41 (Scope of special education)
Bedenen veya zihnen özürlü olup özel bir eğitim ve öğrenime gereksinimi olan okul öncesi eğitim yaşına ulaşmış çocukların on sekiz yaşına kadar olan eğitimlerinin tümünü kapsar.
Translation: “[Special education] covers the entirety of the education, up to age eighteen, of children who have reached pre-school education age and who, being physically or mentally disabled, require special education and instruction.”
Article 42 (Right to benefit from special education)
Özel eğitime gereksinen her öğrenci zorunlu eğitim çağında iken ilgi ve yeteneği oranında, zorunlu olarak özel eğitimden parasız veya parasız yatılı yararlanma hakkına sahiptir. Ancak, zorunlu eğitim yaşı dışında da özel eğitim görmek isteyenlere, gerekli eğitim olanağı devletçe ücretsiz sağlanır.
Translation: “Every student requiring special education, while of compulsory education age, has a right to benefit, as a matter of compulsion, from free or free-boarding special education in proportion to their interest and ability. However, the State also provides the necessary free educational opportunity to those who wish to receive special education outside compulsory education age.”
Article 43(3) (Aims of special education)
Bu öğrencileri, kendilerine ve topluma yararlı yurttaşlar olarak yetiştirmek; gerektiğinde mesleki rehabilitasyonlarını sağlamak.
Translation: “To raise these students as citizens useful to themselves and to society; to provide their vocational rehabilitation where necessary.”
Article 53(1)(A)-(G) (Private school licensing, oversight, accreditation and penalties)
(1) Parasız devlet okulları dışında gerçek kişiler veya özel hukuk tüzel kişileri eliyle açılacak özel okulların açılmasında, akredite edilmesinde, etkinliklerinin Bakanlığın gözetim ve denetimi altında yürütülmesinde aşağıdaki esaslara uyulur: (A) Özel eğitim ve öğretim kurumu ile özel kurs yeri ve dershanelerin açılışı, bu Yasa kuralları çerçevesinde, Bakanlığın iznine ve denetimine bağlı olmak koşulu ile serbesttir. (B) İzin almak isteyen gerçek veya tüzel kişiler, amaçları, okul binası standartları, araç-gereç ve öğretim elemanlarını da içerecek şekilde hazırlayacakları projelerini Bakanlığa sunarak izin talebinde bulunurlar. (C) Bakanlıkça yapılan değerlendirme sonucu okulların çalışma koşulları belirtilerek gereken izin verilebilir. (Ç) Özel okulların öğretim standartları, en az denk Devlet okullarında aranan düzeyde ve nitelikte olur. (D) Milli eğitimin genel amaçları ve temel ilkeleri, eğitim-öğretim programları, okuldaki öğretimin seviyesi ve bina araç-gereç yeterliliği yönünden özel okullardaki eğitim ve öğretim Bakanlığın gözetim ve denetimine tabidir. (E) Etkinliğine Bakanlıkça izin verilen bir okulun programları ve okullara denkliğine ilişkin hususlar, Bakanlıkça oluşturulan 'Akredite Komisyonları' tarafından verilecek raporlar ve öneriler ışığında Bakanlıkça yürütülür. (F) Akredite edilmeyen bir okulun vereceği diplomalar herhangi bir geçerlilik taşımaz. (G) İzinsiz okul açanlar, milli eğitimin genel amaçlarına aykırı eğitim-öğretim faaliyetinde bulunanlar veya izni iptal edildiği veya kapatıldığı halde eğitim-öğretim faaliyetine devam edenler hakkında cezai kovuşturma açılır ve mahkemeye sevk edilerek bu gibi faaliyetlere fiilen son verilir ve aşağıdaki bendlerde öngörülen cezai müeyyideler uygulanır: (a) İzinsiz okul açanlar için 250.000 Türk Lirasına kadar para cezası ve/veya 3 aya kadar hapislik; (b) Milli Eğitimin genel amaçlarına aykırı eğitim-öğretim faaliyetinde bulunanlar için 250.000 Türk Lirasına kadar para cezası ve/veya 6 aya kadar hapislik; (c) İzni iptal edildiği veya kapatıldığı halde eğitim-öğretim faaliyetine devam edenler için 1.000.000 Türk Lirasına kadar para cezası ve/veya 6 aya kadar hapislik. (2) Özel okullarla ilgili diğer hususlar, bu madde kuralları ile bu Yasa kuralları çerçevesinde çıkarılacak bir tüzükle düzenlenir.
Translation: “(1) Outside of free State schools, the following rules apply to the opening, accreditation, and Ministry-supervised and Ministry-inspected operation of private schools opened by natural persons or private-law legal persons: (A) The opening of a private education and teaching institution, or a private course venue or tutoring centre, is free, within the rules of this Law, subject to the Ministry's permission and supervision. (B) Natural or legal persons wishing to obtain permission apply to the Ministry by submitting a project covering their aims, school-building standards, equipment, and teaching staff. (C) Following the Ministry's evaluation, the required permission may be granted, with the schools' operating conditions specified. (Ç) A private school's teaching standards must be at least at the level and quality required of equivalent State schools. (D) Education and teaching at private schools is subject to the Ministry's supervision and inspection as regards National Education's general aims and basic principles, teaching programmes, the level of instruction at the school, and the adequacy of the building, equipment and materials. (E) Matters relating to a permitted school's programmes and their equivalency to [State] schools are administered by the Ministry in light of reports and recommendations given by 'Accreditation Commissions' established by the Ministry. (F) Diplomas issued by a school that is not accredited carry no validity whatsoever. (G) Criminal prosecution is brought against, and referral to court made to put an actual stop to the activity of, those who open a school without permission, those who conduct education-teaching activity contrary to National Education's general aims, or those who continue education-teaching activity despite their permit having been cancelled or the school closed, and the following penal sanctions apply: (a) up to 250,000 Turkish Lira fine and/or up to 3 months' imprisonment for opening a school without permission; (b) up to 250,000 Turkish Lira fine and/or up to 6 months' imprisonment for conducting education-teaching activity contrary to National Education's general aims; (c) up to 1,000,000 Turkish Lira fine and/or up to 6 months' imprisonment for continuing education-teaching activity despite the permit having been cancelled or the school closed. (2) Other matters relating to private schools are regulated by a Tüzük (Regulation) issued within the framework of this article's rules and this Law's rules.”
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src-milli-egitim-yasasi-17-1986 - Official Gazette No. 102 of 21 May 2024, Supplement I: Law 39/2024 amending the Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Lease (Aliens) Law
KKTC Resmî Gazete, Sayı 102, 21 Mayıs 2024, EK I: 39/2024 Sayılı Taşınmaz Mal Edinme ve Uzun Vadeli Kiralama (Yabancılar) (Değişiklik) Yasası
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 21 May 2024 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The commencement provision (section 14) named in the notes, and the one quoted passage.
Editorial note: The amending law is numbered 39/2024 and entered into force on publication (section 14).
Quoted passages (1)
Supplement I, p. 207
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Cumhuriyet Meclisi’nin 20 Mayıs 2024 tarihli Ellialtıncı Birleşiminde Oyçokluğuyla (26 Oyla) kabul olunan "Taşınmaz Mal Edinme ve Uzun Vadeli Kiralama (Yabancılar) (Değişiklik) Yasası"
Translation: “The "Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Lease (Aliens) (Amendment) Law", adopted by majority (26 votes) at the fifty-sixth sitting of the Assembly of the Republic on 20 May 2024”
Used by
- claims: The amending Law 39/2024 was adopted by the TRNC Assembly on 20 May 2024 by twenty-six votes and published in Official Gazette No. 102 on 21 May 2024, entering into force on publication.
- regulatory events: The rules for foreign buyers are rewritten by amendment law
- guides: Can foreigners buy property in Northern Cyprus?
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src-gazette-2024-102 - Official Gazette No. 119 of 25 June 2026: Law 44/2026 amending the Aliens and Immigration Law (Chapter 105), residence permit fees
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 25 June 2026 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The Article 20(5) fee-schedule amendment described in the source notes.
Editorial note: Adopted by the Assembly on 22 June 2026 (25 votes). Replaces Article 20(5) and the fee schedule for residence permits and allows the Council of Ministers to raise the scheduled fees by regulation, up to fifteen times, in line with annual inflation.
Used by
- regulatory events: Residence-permit fees change under the immigration law
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src-gazette-2026-119-law-44-2026 - Official Gazette No. 147 of 7 August 2026: Decree with force of law 89/2026 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners
Yabancıların Taşınmaz Mal Edinimine İlişkin Kuralları Düzenleyen Yasa Gücünde Kararname, 89/2026 (Resmî Gazete Sayı 147, 7 Ağustos 2026)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 7 August 2026 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. The whole decree, in Turkish.
Reading note: Source's own notes state: "Read in full in Turkish on 14 September 2026."
Editorial note: Read in full in Turkish on 14 September 2026. Article 4 substitutes new paragraphs (1), (6), (7), (10), (11)(C)-(D), (13)(A)(a) and (14) of Article 8 of Law 52/2008 "while this decree remains in force"; Articles 5-6 add new Articles 8A and 8B (licensed intermediary investor); Article 7 adds to Article 12; Article 8 substitutes transitional Article 1 paragraphs; Articles 9-13 add transitional rules.
Quoted passages (2)
General reasoning (Genel Gerekçe)
87 Nolu Resmi Gazete'nin EK-1'inde yayımlanan 63/2026 sayılı Yabancıların Taşınmaz Mal Edinimine İlişkin Kuralları Düzenleyen Yasa Gücünde Kararname'nin Anayasa uyarınca geçerlilik süresi olan doksan (90) günlük süre 10 Ağustos 2026 tarihinde sona erecektir.
Translation: “The ninety-day validity period under the Constitution of Decree with force of law 63/2026 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners, published in Supplement I of Official Gazette No. 87, will end on 10 August 2026.”
General reasoning (Genel Gerekçe)
Cumhuriyet Meclisi'nin Hukuk, Siyasi İşler, Dış İlişkiler ve Savunma Komitesi'nin gündeminde olan ve görüşülmeye başlanan 52/2008 sayılı Taşınmaz Mal Edinme ve Uzun Vadeli Kiralama (Yabancılar) Yasasındaki değişiklikler Cumhuriyet Meclisi'nin tatilde olması sebebiyle, yasallaşma olanağı olmadığı cihetle zaruretten dolayı işbu Yasa Gücünde Kararname hazırlanmıştır.
Translation: “Because the amendments to Law 52/2008, which are on the agenda of and under discussion in the Assembly's Committee on Legal, Political, Foreign Affairs and Defence, could not be enacted while the Assembly is in recess, this decree with force of law has been prepared out of necessity.”
Used by
- rules: Current acquisition limits under the decree in force · Council may extend transitional periods by up to six months for administrative fault · For two years, applications may rely on a construction permit or planning approval · Build-and-sell partnerships with local contractors (foreign share up to 49%) · Completed, delivered dwellings bought before the decree: transfer within thirty-six months · Investment property bought under the law may be sold to another foreigner with permission · Current investment threshold: ten million euros · Licensed intermediary investor · Over-limit pre-2024 contracts must be transferred within twenty-four months · Register the stamped contract and apply for permission within one month, or the contract is void · Current cap: at most eighty per cent of a housing project may be sold to foreigners · Where a unit title is impossible, shares may be transferred with the Land Registry Director’s approval · Current deadline: transfer fees within seventy-five business days; no utilities until taxes are paid · Current deadline: transfer within one year of the permission being published · A foreigner may transfer to close relatives with Ministry approval · Pre-2024 contracts above the limits: notify with a fee of one per cent (three per cent if late) · Pre-2024 contracts: register and apply within six months of the decree · Pre-2024 trustee agreements: register within six months or they are void · Usage certificate for over-limit pre-2024 contracts: ten years, ownership stays with the seller · PTP criminal-record certificate: currently must be apostilled and no more than three months old
- claims: Amendments to Law 52/2008 are on the agenda of the Assembly’s Committee on Legal, Political, Foreign Affairs and Defence and could not be enacted before the Assembly’s recess, which is why decree 89/2026 was issued. · Decree with force of law 89/2026 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners was published in Official Gazette No. 147 on 7 August 2026 and entered into force on publication; its explanatory note records that the ninety-day validity of the previous decree, 63/2026, ended on 10 August 2026. · The rules for foreign buyers have been carried by a chain of decrees with force of law re-issued on expiry: 30/2025 (14 August 2025), 42/2025 (14 November 2025), 11/2026 (12 February 2026), 63/2026 (11 May 2026), 89/2026 (7 August 2026) and 119/2026 (6 October 2026), each stating that it applies in place of the listed articles of Law 52/2008 while in force. · A decree with force of law issued under Article 112 of the TRNC Constitution is valid for ninety days, as the Council of Ministers states in the explanatory notes of the property decrees. · A Council of Ministers decision granting a foreigner permission to buy is published in the Official Gazette, and the deadlines for completing the transfer and paying the taxes and fees run from that publication date.
- regulatory events: The rules currently in force for foreign buyers are re-issued by decree · A bill to amend the foreigner property law is before the Assembly
- guides: How does the buying process work? · Can foreigners buy property in Northern Cyprus? · Is it safe to buy property in Northern Cyprus? · What is Permission to Purchase? · What should a foreign buyer verify before buying?
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src-gazette-2026-147-decree-89-2026 - Official Gazette No. 165 of 14 August 2025: Decree with force of law 30/2025 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners
Yabancıların Taşınmaz Mal Edinimine İlişkin Kuralları Düzenleyen Yasa Gücünde Kararname, 30/2025
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 14 August 2025 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Used by
- claims: The rules for foreign buyers have been carried by a chain of decrees with force of law re-issued on expiry: 30/2025 (14 August 2025), 42/2025 (14 November 2025), 11/2026 (12 February 2026), 63/2026 (11 May 2026), 89/2026 (7 August 2026) and 119/2026 (6 October 2026), each stating that it applies in place of the listed articles of Law 52/2008 while in force. · A decree with force of law issued under Article 112 of the TRNC Constitution is valid for ninety days, as the Council of Ministers states in the explanatory notes of the property decrees.
- regulatory events: The limits for foreign buyers are rewritten by decree: three apartments and a cap per development
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src-gazette-2025-165-decree-30-2025 - Official Gazette No. 225 of 14 November 2025: Decree with force of law 42/2025 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 14 November 2025 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Used by
- claims: The rules for foreign buyers have been carried by a chain of decrees with force of law re-issued on expiry: 30/2025 (14 August 2025), 42/2025 (14 November 2025), 11/2026 (12 February 2026), 63/2026 (11 May 2026), 89/2026 (7 August 2026) and 119/2026 (6 October 2026), each stating that it applies in place of the listed articles of Law 52/2008 while in force.
- regulatory events: The rules for foreign buyers are re-issued by decree
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src-gazette-2025-225-decree-42-2025 - Official Gazette No. 28 of 12 February 2026: Decree with force of law 11/2026 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 12 February 2026 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Used by
- claims: The rules for foreign buyers have been carried by a chain of decrees with force of law re-issued on expiry: 30/2025 (14 August 2025), 42/2025 (14 November 2025), 11/2026 (12 February 2026), 63/2026 (11 May 2026), 89/2026 (7 August 2026) and 119/2026 (6 October 2026), each stating that it applies in place of the listed articles of Law 52/2008 while in force.
- regulatory events: The rules for foreign buyers are re-issued with a ten-year usage certificate
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src-gazette-2026-028-decree-11-2026 - Official Gazette No. 29 of 7 February 2025: Decree with force of law 8/2025 extending the 60-business-day period in transitional Article 1(4) of Law 39/2024
8/2025 Sayılı Yasa Gücünde Kararname (Resmî Gazete Sayı 29, 7 Şubat 2025)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 7 February 2025 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Used by
- regulatory events: The tax-payment period for existing contracts is extended by decree
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src-gazette-2025-029-decree-8-2025 - Official Gazette No. 39 of 21 February 2025: Decree with force of law 7/2025 on existing sales contracts under transitional Article 1 of Law 39/2024 and extension of periods
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 21 February 2025 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Used by
- regulatory events: Existing contracts and extended periods are addressed by decree
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src-gazette-2025-039-decree-7-2025 - Official Gazette No. 69 of 3 April 2025: Decree with force of law 13/2025 on existing sales contracts (seven-year usage certificate; build-and-sell partnerships)
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 3 April 2025 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The recitals naming decrees 57/2024 and 50/2024, per the source notes.
Editorial note: The decree recites that an earlier decree 57/2024 of 14 December 2024 had regulated over-limit contracts and that a decree 50/2024 had extended the 75-business-day period for trustee agreements.
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src-gazette-2025-069-decree-13-2025 - Official Gazette No. 87 of 11 May 2026: Decree with force of law 63/2026 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners
Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 11 May 2026 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Used by
- rules: PTP criminal-record certificate: currently must be apostilled and no more than three months old
- claims: The rules for foreign buyers have been carried by a chain of decrees with force of law re-issued on expiry: 30/2025 (14 August 2025), 42/2025 (14 November 2025), 11/2026 (12 February 2026), 63/2026 (11 May 2026), 89/2026 (7 August 2026) and 119/2026 (6 October 2026), each stating that it applies in place of the listed articles of Law 52/2008 while in force.
- regulatory events: The rules for foreign buyers are re-issued and a licensed intermediary investor is added
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src-gazette-2026-087-decree-63-2026 - Official Gazette of the Republic of Cyprus, Part I(I), No. 5027, 21 February 2025: Criminal Code (Amendment) Law 18(I)/2025
Ο περί Ποινικού Κώδικα (Τροποποιητικός) Νόμος του 2025, Ν. 18(Ι)/2025
Official Gazette of the Republic of Cyprus · Republic of Cyprus · published 21 February 2025 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Greek
Reading: Read in part. The section 281(1) amendment described in the notes and the one quoted passage.
Editorial note: Amends section 281(1) of the Criminal Code (unlawful possession, cultivation or use of land registered to another), replacing the previous misdemeanour penalty of two years’ imprisonment or a fine not exceeding five thousand pounds.
Quoted passages (1)
Section 2(b)
«αδικήματος και υπόκειται σε ποινή φυλάκισης μέχρι και πέντε (5) έτη ή σε χρηματική ποινή μέχρι τις δέκα χιλιάδες ευρώ (€10.000)»
Translation: “"an offence and is liable to imprisonment of up to five (5) years or to a fine of up to ten thousand euros (€10,000)"”
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src-roc-gazette-law-18-2025 - Prevention of the Laundering of Proceeds of Crime, Financing of Terrorism and Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Law, No. 1/2024
Suç Gelirlerinin Aklanmasının, Terörizmin Finansmanının ve Kitle İmha Silahlarının Yaygınlaşmasının Finansmanının Önlenmesi Yasası, 1/2024
Central Bank of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Articles 8, 11 and 12 read in full and quoted, closing the exact gap flagged in this source's own notes field ("Article 8... was not independently retrieved/read in this pass") from the prior mission..
Reading note: Confirms beneficial-ownership identification for TRNC companies is imposed through this AML Law on the PROFESSIONALS who form/administer a company (lawyers, accountants, trust/company service providers under Art. 11-12), using a 25%-of-shares-or-voting-rights test (Art. 8) — not through a direct, standalone statutory filing duty on the company itself to a public beneficial-ownership register. Whether the Registrar of Companies (RKMMD) independently collects/publishes beneficial-ownership data was not confirmed either way — a genuine remaining gap.
Editorial note: Read in full by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026 (53 pages, full text read and searched). This is the current AML/CFT law: the Central Bank's own legislation index links this same instrument, confirming it is currently applicable, and it comprehensively restructures and replaces an older 'Law No. 55/1999' that several secondary/legal-directory sources still cite as current — those sources are almost certainly out of date. Article 8 (the operative legal definition of 'Esas Faydalanıcı'/beneficial owner, referenced by Article 16(1)(B)'s general beneficial-ownership disclosure obligation) was not independently retrieved or read at that time, and was read in full in a later pass (see the reading log). Articles 45 (establishing 'Birim', the financial-intelligence-unit function, inside the 'Para, Kambiyo ve İnkişaf Sandığı İşleri Dairesi') and 47 (establishing 'Kurul', the Anti-Money-Laundering Prevention Board) were read, but no public website or English-language content was found for either body — a real accessibility gap.
Quoted passages (10)
Definitions ("Kimlik")
...kişinin kimliğini ortaya koymak amacıyla yerel veya yabancı bir resmi makam tarafından verilen ve üzerinde o kişinin fotoğrafını bulunduran pasaport veya kimlik kartı veya sürüş ehliyetini anlatır.
Translation: “...a passport, ID card, or driving licence bearing the person's photograph, issued by a local or foreign official authority, for the purpose of establishing the person's identity.”
Article 15 ("Standart Müşteri Tanı Prensibi" — when standard customer due diligence applies)
[Standard CDD required on: establishing a business relationship; a single transaction or linked transactions reaching EUR 10,000 or equivalent — reduced to EUR 2,000 for gambling/betting service providers and EUR 1,000 for electronic fund-transfer services; any transaction suspected of money laundering/terror financing regardless of amount; doubts about previously-collected ID data; every visit to a rented safe-deposit box.]
Translation: “Paraphrased/summarised by NCR Editorial from the read text; the EUR thresholds are quoted figures, the surrounding structure is paraphrase.”
Article 16(1)(A)(a)-(b) (standard CDD measures — identity establishment and verification)
(A)(a) Müşterinin kimliğinin tespiti, (b) Müşterinin kimliğinin, yerel veya yabancı resmi makamlarca verilen kimlik belgesinin aslının görülmesi suretiyle ve/veya resmi kaynaktan edinilen bilgilerle teyit edilmesi
Translation: “(A)(a) Establishing the customer's identity, (b) verifying the customer's identity by examining the original of an ID document issued by a local or foreign official authority and/or information obtained from an official source.”
Article 16(4) (prohibition on anonymous/unnamed/numbered accounts)
Bankalar ve finansal kuruluşlar, isimsiz veya hesap sahibinin kimliğinin bilinmediği veya belgelendirilemediği veya isme yazılı olmayan numaralı hesaplar gibi... hesap açamaz ve/veya çalıştıramaz.
Translation: “Banks and financial institutions cannot open or operate anonymous accounts, accounts whose holder's identity is unknown or undocumented, or unnamed numbered accounts.”
Article 16(5) (PEP-status check for customers living abroad)
Bankalar ve finansal kuruluşlar, yurt dışında yaşayan müşterilerine müşteri tanı önlemlerini uygularken, bu kişilerin siyasi ve/veya nüfuz sahibi kişi olup olmadıklarının tespiti için gerekli önlemi alır.
Translation: “When applying customer-due-diligence measures to customers living abroad, banks and financial institutions must take the necessary measures to determine whether such persons are politically exposed persons.”
Article 18(3) (non-face-to-face/remote relationships — enhanced due diligence trigger)
[Enhanced due diligence is triggered by a relationship opened via correspondence, telephone, email, internet, or any modern means of communication — i.e. non-face-to-face account opening is explicitly contemplated and regulated, not prohibited.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 19 (enhanced CDD measures for non-face-to-face relationships)
[At least one of: confirming the first transaction came from an account already opened in the customer's name at a bank in an 'equivalent country' (denk ülke — EU/EEA states or states applying similar AML obligations); identifying with additional documents/data; or having documents verified by a bank/financial institution in the equivalent country where the customer already has a relationship.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 8 ("Esas Faydalanıcı" — beneficial owner, for legal persons)
Translation: “For a legal person, the beneficial owner is: (A) the natural person(s) directly/indirectly holding 25% or more of shares or voting rights, or otherwise exercising control; (B) failing that, a natural person controlling management by other means; (C) failing that, senior management is deemed the beneficial owner. Art. 8(3): trusts and similar legal arrangements not otherwise subject to registration under any law must have their beneficial owners and assets registered with the Revenue and Tax Office within 30 days of formation.”
Article 11 ("Trust veya Şirket Hizmet Sağlayıcıları" — Trust/Company Service Providers)
Translation: “Covers anyone who, as a service, forms companies/trusts/foundations; acts (or arranges for another to act) as a company director/secretary or partnership partner; provides a registered office/business/correspondence address to a company; manages a foreign-law vehicle; or exercises another's voting rights.”
Article 12 ("Yükümlüler" — obliged entities)
Translation: “Obliged entities explicitly include: banks; financial institutions; accountants and tax advisers; lawyers acting for a client in connection with, among other things, the arrangements necessary for the formation, operation or management of companies; trust/company service providers; real-estate agents; jewellers; gaming/betting operators; crypto-asset service providers; motor-vehicle dealers; and public institutions.”
Used by
- rules: AML customer due diligence: transaction thresholds, PEP checks, and non-face-to-face accounts · Foreign ID documents accepted for bank customer identification; anonymous accounts banned · Beneficial ownership is identified via professionals' AML duties, not a public register
- conflicts: Is a TRNC residence permit required in law, or only in practice, to open a personal bank account?
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src-aml-law-1-2024 - Rent Control Law, No. 17/1981
17/1981 Sayılı Kira (Denetim) Yasası
Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi), TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full.
Editorial note: Read in full (18 articles + transitional provisions) by NCR Editorial, converted from the official .doc at evrakcm.gov.ct.tr (the TRNC parliament's own document system). Key structural finding: the entire Law's substantive protections (Art. 6 court rent-redetermination, Art. 7 exhaustive eviction grounds, Art. 15 unconscionable-rent challenge) apply only within areas the Council of Ministers has specifically declared 'control zones' by published decree (Art. 3(1)) — this is not a blanket national rent-control statute, contrary to how several professional/secondary sources appear to present it. Secondary/journalistic sources (not independently primary-verified) suggest the historically declared control zones are limited to three old city centres (Lefkoşa Suriçi, Mağusa Kaleiçi, Girne Kordonboyu), meaning most foreign-owned property (new-build developments, gated communities, suburban housing) likely sits outside any declared control zone — this is flagged as a high-materiality but not-yet-primary-verified finding (the actual Council of Ministers decree is an image-based/scanned PDF that could not be extracted with the tools available). No deposit provision was found anywhere in the text (checked systematically) — a genuine 'no rule found' result, not 'no rule exists'. No nationality/residence distinction between landlord/tenant was found anywhere in the text (checked systematically across Articles 2, 6, 7, 12, 14, 15).
Quoted passages (3)
Article 3(1) (control-zone mechanism)
Bakanlar Kurulu… herhangi bir sahayı Resmi Gazete'de yayınlanacak bir kararname ile denetim bölgesi ilân edebilir ve bu Yasa Kuralları denetim bölgesine dahil ikametgâh veya işyeri amacı ile tasarruf edilen taşınmaz mallara uygulanır.
Translation: “The Council of Ministers may, by decree published in the Official Gazette, declare any area a control zone, and this Law's rules apply [only] to immovable property held for housing or business purposes within a declared control zone.”
Article 15 (unconscionable-rent challenge, residential-only)
Bu madde kuralları, münhasıran ikametgâh olarak kullanılan taşınmaz mallara uygulanır.
Translation: “This article's rules apply exclusively to immovable property used as housing.”
Article 16 (repeal of predecessor law)
Translation: “Repeals the prior colonial-era rent legislation, Fasıl 86 ('Kira (Kontrol) Yasası'), plus the 1961/1967/1973/1978 rent laws.”
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src-rent-control-law-17-1981 - Residence Permits and Visas Regulation under Chapter 105 Aliens and Immigration Law, consolidated text dated 14 September 2026 (republished since the 19 February 2026 text NCR primarily relies on)
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler Tüzüğü (Fasıl 105, Yabancılar ve Muhaceret Yasası)
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 14 September 2026 · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Article 7(2)-(3) (cumulative 90-in-180-day visa stay cap and its carve-outs), Article 9(1)(a)(i)-(iv) (tourist/visit-purpose visa durations), Article 12(1)(n)(i)-(iii) (over-60 residence exemption), Article 14(1) (general short-term duration default), Article 14(2)(i)-(j) (non-owner income/rental and pensioner short-term residence routes), Article 14(2)(m)(i)-(ii) (Humanitarian Residence Permit), Article 15(8) (Health Fund premium, current text), Article 18(1)-(5) (marriage-of-convenience investigation regime), Article 25(1)-(2), and Article 28A(1)-(6) (Turkish-citizen facilitation) read in full and quoted verbatim, confirming and upgrading from primary text what a prior night-research pass had summarised..
Reading note: Closes the encoding gap on six questions that already had research-stage notes but no verbatim source quote before this reading.
Editorial note: Located on mevzuat.gov.ct.tr (the Central Legislation Office's own consolidated-law database) on 2026-09-19, while searching for a possible standalone reproduction of A.E.350/2021 or A.E.77/2025 (none was found — the site hosts only consolidated texts, not individual amending instruments). This newer republished PDF replaces the 19 February 2026 copy at the same site (a different filename); its date, 2026-09-14, coincides exactly with A.E.830/2026's Gazette publication date, consistent with this being a routine consolidation refresh incorporating that instrument (which prior investigation already confirmed does not touch Article 16). Fetched and its Article 16 located and compared word for word against the 19 February 2026 text NCR already held: IDENTICAL, including every amendment marker in the same positions. This is a genuine independent corroboration (a separately generated database export, seven months apart) that Article 16 has not drifted, not a re-reading of the same file.
Quoted passages (12)
Article 16, all six paragraphs
Aile İkamet İzni 16. (1) Aşağıdaki (2)'nci fıkra kapsamında destekleyici sayılabilen kişilerin; ... [identical to the 19 February 2026 text, see src-mevzuat-residence-regulation-2026]
Translation: “Identical to the 19 February 2026 consolidated text — see src-mevzuat-residence-regulation-2026 for the full translation.”
Article 7(2) (cumulative 90-days-in-180-days visa-stay cap)
(2) Bir yabancının Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde vize ile kalış süresi, her defasında doksan günü ve her yüz seksen günde doksan günü geçemez. Ancak: (a) Yüz seksen günde doksan gün kalışın hesaplanmasında, ülkeye girişten itibaren yetmiş iki saat içerisinde çıkış yapılan kalışlar yurt içinde kalış olarak hesaplanmaz. (b) Tüzüğün yürürlüğe girdiği tarihten önceki kalışlar dikkate alınmaz. (c) Kayıtlarda arka arkaya iki defa giriş kaydı bulunması halinde, çıkışı tespit edilemeyen giriş hangisi ise o giriş kaydı dikkate alınmaz. Arka arkaya ikiden fazla giriş tespit edilmesi halinde kapsamlı kontrol işlemine geçilir. (d) Polis Muhaceret kayıtlarının online bağlantısının sağlanamadığı ve hesaplamanın başka surette yapılmasının mümkün olmadığı durumlarda, böyle bir hesaplamadan sarfınazar edilebilir. (e) Turizm Bakanlığınca tur lideri olarak bildirilen kişiler hakkında, yüz seksen günde doksan gün sınırlaması uygulanmaz.
Translation: “(2) A foreigner's stay in the TRNC on a visa cannot exceed ninety days at a time, nor ninety days within any hundred-and-eighty-day period. However: (a) in calculating the ninety-in-a-hundred-and-eighty-day stay, a stay where the person exits within seventy-two hours of entering the country is not counted as a stay in the country; (b) stays before this Regulation's own commencement are not taken into account; (c) where the records show two consecutive entry records, whichever entry's exit cannot be established is disregarded — where more than two consecutive entries are found, a comprehensive check procedure is initiated; (d) where the Police Immigration records' online connection is unavailable and the calculation cannot otherwise be made, this calculation may be dispensed with; (e) persons notified by the Ministry of Tourism as tour leaders are not subject to the ninety-in-a-hundred-and-eighty-day limitation.”
Article 7(3)(a) (Ministerial-approval entry/stay for a documented family emergency)
(a) Ülkede bulunan üçüncü dereceye kadar olan akrabalarının ağır hastalık, ölüm ve benzeri durumlarda karşı karşıya olduklarının Daire'ye bildirilmesi halinde, ülkeye girişine ve bu amaçlar için zaruri ihtiyaç olan süre kadar kalışına Bakan onayı ile izin verilebilir. Bu süre, hiçbir durumda vizeler için öngörülen azami süreleri aşamaz.
Translation: “(a) Where it is notified to the Department that the person is facing the serious illness, death or similar circumstance of a relative up to the third degree present in the country, entry into the country and a stay for the period strictly necessary for that purpose may be permitted with the Minister's approval. This period may in no case exceed the maximum periods prescribed for visas.”
Article 9(1)(a)(i)-(iv) (tourist/visit-purpose visa durations)
(i) Ülkeye turistik ziyaret amacıyla gelip, otelde veya başka bir konaklama tesisinde konaklayacak olanlar ile bu amaçla konut kiralamış olanlara bu husustaki beyanları üzerine en fazla otuz gün; otuz günden fazla kalacak olanların bu hususa ilişkin ödenmiş rezervasyon belgesi ile makbuz sunmaları halinde en fazla doksan gün, (ii) Bakan tarafından ayrıca kısıtlama getirilmemesi halinde, ülkeye turistik ziyaret amacıyla gelip, bir yakınının evinde kalacak olanlara en fazla altmış gün, (iii) Bakan tarafından kısıtlama getirilmemesi halinde, ülkeye üçüncü dereceye kadar bir akrabasını ziyaret amacıyla gelenlere en fazla altmış gün, (iv) Ülkeye resmi ziyaret, iş görüşmesi, konferans, seminer, toplantı, festival, fuar, sergi, sportif etkinlik, kültürel ve sanatsal etkinlik, sağlık turizmi ve benzeri amaçlarla gelenlere, bu durumlarını göstermeleri halinde, gösterdikleri sürenin bir hafta fazlası ile sınırlı olarak verilir. Geliş amacının uzadığının belgelenmesi halinde Baş Muhaceret Memuru veya yetkilendireceği kişi tarafından en fazla doksan güne tamamlanacak şekilde uzatılabilir.
Translation: “(i) For those coming for a touristic visit and staying at a hotel or other accommodation establishment, or who have rented housing for this purpose, on their own declaration, at most thirty days; for those staying more than thirty days, where they submit a paid reservation document and receipt for this, at most ninety days. (ii) Unless the Minister imposes a further restriction, for those coming for a touristic visit and staying at a relative's home, at most sixty days. (iii) Unless the Minister imposes a restriction, for those coming to visit a relative up to the third degree, at most sixty days. (iv) For those coming for an official visit, business meeting, conference, seminar, meeting, festival, fair, exhibition, sporting event, cultural or artistic event, health tourism and similar purposes, where they demonstrate this, it is granted limited to the period they demonstrate plus one week. Where it is documented that the purpose of the visit has been extended, it may be extended by the Chief Immigration Officer or a person they authorise, up to a maximum total of ninety days.”
Article 12(1)(n)(i)-(iii) (residence-permit exemption for persons over 60)
(n) (i) Ülkede yurttaş olan çocukları ile birlikte ikamet eden 60 (altmış) yaş üzerindeki anne ve babaları; (ii) Bu Tüzüğün 14'üncü maddesinin (2)'nci fıkrasının (b) bendi gereğince ikamet izni alabilecek konumda olan 60 (altmış) yaşından büyük kişiler ve bu kategoriden muafiyet belgesi alan kişilerin 60 (altmış) yaşından büyük eşleri veya partneri; (iii) Ülkede çalışma izni, iş kurma izni, daimi ikamet izni ve ikamet izni olanlar ile muafiyet kapsamında bulunan kişilerin 60 (altmış) yaş üzerindeki anne ve babaları;
Translation: “(n) (i) Parents over the age of 60 residing in the country together with their citizen children; (ii) persons over the age of 60 who are in a position to obtain a residence permit under Article 14(2)(b) of this Regulation, and the spouses or partners, over the age of 60, of persons who have obtained an exemption certificate under this category; (iii) parents over the age of 60 of persons in the country holding a work permit, business-establishment permit, permanent residence permit or residence permit, or falling within an exemption.”
Article 28A(1)-(6) (Turkish-citizen residence/visa facilitation, under Law 34/2000)
28A. 34/2000 sayılı Yasa ile onaylanan Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti ile Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Arasında İki Ülke Vatandaşlarına İlave Kolaylık Tanınmasına İlişkin Anlaşma uyarınca, bu tüzüğün uygulanmasında, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti yurttaşları bakımından aşağıdaki istisna, muafiyet ve kolaylıklar uygulanır: (1) 14'üncü maddenin (2)'nci fıkrasının (b) bendinin (v)'inci alt bendinde yer alan gelir koşulu, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti yurttaşları bakımından aranmaz. (2) 14'üncü maddenin (2)'nci fıkrasının (i) bendinde yer alan gelir şartı, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti yurttaşları bakımından 'hayatını idame ettirmeye yetecek kadar gelire sahip olmak' şeklinde okunur ve uygulanır. (3) 16'ncı maddenin (1)'inci fıkrasının (c) bendindeki, 'Destekleyicinin ve eşinin çalışıyor olması ve on iki yaşından küçük çocuklarının olması' koşulu 60 yaş üzerindeki Türkiye Cumhuriyeti yurttaşı anne ve babalar için aranmaz. (4) 20'nci maddenin (2)'nci fıkrasının (a) bendinde yer alan sağlık koşulu, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti yurttaşları bakımından, her iki yılda bir kez olacak şekilde uygulanır. (5) Ülkeyi tanıtmak için ülkeye gelen Türkiye Cumhuriyeti yurttaşlarına... film, dizi veya belgesel çekmek için görevli Bakanlık tarafından onay verilmesi durumunda, bu Tüzüğün 14'üncü maddesinin (2)'nci fıkrasının (h) bendinde belirtilen kısa dönem ikamet izninden muafiyet sağlanır. (6) Tüzüğün 9'uncu maddesinin (1)'inci fıkrasının (c) ile (ç) bendi ve (d) bendinin (iii) alt bendi dışında kalan diğer vize türleri için ülkeye ilk girişlerde 90 (doksan) gün vize süresi verilir. Müteakip girişlerde ise 9'uncu maddede belirtilen vize süreleri uygulanır.
Translation: “28A. Under the Agreement on Additional Facilities Granted to the Citizens of the Two Countries between the TRNC and the Republic of Türkiye, ratified by Law 34/2000, the following exceptions, exemptions and facilities apply to citizens of the Republic of Türkiye in the application of this Regulation: (1) the income condition in Article 14(2)(b)(v) does not apply to citizens of the Republic of Türkiye. (2) the income condition in Article 14(2)(i) is read and applied, for citizens of the Republic of Türkiye, as 'having enough income to sustain oneself'. (3) the condition in Article 16(1)(c) that 'the sponsor and their spouse must be employed and have children under twelve' does not apply to parents over 60 who are citizens of the Republic of Türkiye. (4) the health condition in Article 20(2)(a) is applied, for citizens of the Republic of Türkiye, once every two years [instead of the general cadence]. (5) citizens of the Republic of Türkiye coming to promote the country... where the responsible Ministry approves filming a film, series or documentary, are exempted from the short-term residence permit specified in Article 14(2)(h) of this Regulation. (6) for visa types other than Article 9(1)(c), (ç) and (d)(iii), a 90-day visa is given on first entry to the country; subsequent entries follow the visa durations specified in Article 9.”
Article 14(2)(i)-(j) (non-owner short-term residence: income/rental and pensioner routes)
(i) Aylık geliri en az üç asgari ücret kadar olan veya bu meblağda bir yıllık geliri banka hesabında bulunan kişilere, her başvuruda bir yıllık kısa dönem ikamet izni verilebilir. Bu kural 60 (altmış) yaş üzeri olan yabancılar için garantilenmiş düzenli gelir (emeklilik maaşı) sahibi olanlar bakımından Gelir ve Vergi Dairesi'nden pullanmış ve onaylı kira sözleşmesi ile başvuru yapılması halinde kira sözleşmesi süresi kadar herhalükarda 5(beş) yıla kadar ikamet izni verilebilir. 60 (altmış) yaş üzeri olup garantilenmiş düzenli gelir sahibi olmayanlar için aylık bir asgari ücret tutarındaki geliri talep edeceği izin süresi çarpımı sonucu elde edilecek miktar kadar bankaya yatırılmış geliri olması koşulu ile Gelir ve Vergi Dairesi'nden pullanmış ve onaylı kira sözleşmesi ile başvuru yapılması halinde kira sözleşmesi süresi kadar herhalükarda 5(beş) yıla kadar ikamet izni verilebilir. (j) Sosyal Sigortalar Dairesi Emeklileri için Kısa Dönem İkamet İzni. Sosyal Sigortalar Dairesi'nden emekli maaşı almaktan olan yabancılara, başka bir gelir koşulu aranmaksızın her defasında en fazla beş yıla kadar kısa dönem ikamet izni verilebilir.
Translation: “(i) Persons with a monthly income of at least three minimum wages, or a year's worth of that sum on deposit in a bank account, may be given a one-year short-term residence permit per application. For foreigners over 60 with a guaranteed regular income (a pension), where application is made with a stamped and Tax and Revenue Department-approved lease, a residence permit may be given for the lease's duration, up to a maximum of 5 years in any case. For those over 60 without a guaranteed regular income, where they have income deposited in a bank equal to one minimum wage multiplied by the requested permit duration, and application is made with a stamped and approved lease, a residence permit may likewise be given for up to 5 years. (j) Short-Term Residence Permit for Social Insurance Department Pensioners. Foreigners receiving a pension from the Social Insurance Department may be given a short-term residence permit for up to five years at a time, with no other income condition required.”
Article 18(1)-(5) (marriage-of-convenience investigation regime)
18. (1) Aşağıdaki durumların bir veya birkaçının varlığı halinde evliliğin sırf ikamet izni veya yurttaşlık alabilmek amacıyla yapıldığı yönünde makul şüphe olduğu kabul edilerek araştırma yapılır: (a) Eşlerin aynı konutta yaşamaması veya evliliğin aile birliği içinde devam etmediği yönünde ihbar ya da şikâyetin bulunması. (b) Eşlerin konuştuğu ortak bir dilin olmaması (c) Eşler arasında makul olmayan yaş farkının olması (ç) Eşlerden birisinin evliliğin anlaşmalı olduğunu beyan etmesi (d) Eşlerden biri hakkında geçimini meşru olmayan yollardan sağlamaktan işlem yapılmış olması. (e) Ailenin geliri ile yaşam standardının uygun olmaması ... (3) Araştırma, aile ikamet izni verilirken veya verildikten sonra da yapılabilir. (4) Araştırma neticesinde evliliğin anlaşmalı olduğuna ilişkin bulguya varılması halinde, böyle bir bulgu en az bir yıl geçerli sayılır ve yeni bir araştırmaya gerek duyulmaz. (5) Anlaşmalı olduğuna bulgu varılan bir evliliğin, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti yurttaşı ile yapılan bir evlilik olduğu durumlarda, söz konusu yurttaşın eşine, 12'nci maddenin (1)'inci fıkrasının (a) bendi uyarınca sahip olduğu ikamet izni muafiyetinin sona erdiği bildirilir. Kendisine böyle bir bildirim yapılan yabancı eş, başka bir ikamet izni muafiyeti bulunmaması halinde, böyle bir bildirim tarihinden itibaren en geç on beş gün içerisinde ülkeden çıkış yapmadığı takdirde, on beşinci günün dolmasından itibaren yetkili makamlardan izinsiz [kalmış sayılır].
Translation: “18. (1) Where one or more of the following circumstances exist, it is accepted that there is reasonable suspicion that a marriage was entered into solely to obtain a residence permit or citizenship, and an investigation is conducted: (a) a report or complaint that the spouses do not live in the same dwelling or that the marriage is not continuing as a family union; (b) the spouses have no common spoken language; (c) an unreasonable age gap between the spouses; (ç) one spouse declares the marriage to be one of convenience; (d) proceedings have been taken against one spouse for earning a living through illegitimate means; (e) the family's income is not consistent with its standard of living. ... (3) The investigation may be conducted while a family residence permit is being granted, or after it has been granted. (4) Where the investigation concludes the marriage is one of convenience, that finding is treated as valid for at least one year and a new investigation is not required. (5) Where a marriage found to be one of convenience is a marriage to a TRNC citizen, the citizen's spouse is notified that their residence-permit exemption under Article 12(1)(a) has ended. If the foreign spouse so notified, having no other residence-permit exemption, does not leave the country within fifteen days of that notification, they are treated as staying without authorisation from the competent authorities from the sixteenth day onward.”
Article 14(1) (general short-term residence permit default duration)
14. (1) Kısa dönem ikamet izni, bu tüzükte farklı bir süre öngörülmediği sürece, ilk başvuruda bir yıl süre verilir. Müteakip başvurularda ise 2 (iki) yıl süre verilir. Kısa dönem ikamet izni süresinin belirlenmesinde, yabancının talebi, gerekçesi ve ikamet izniyle ilgili diğer hususlar göz önünde bulundurulur.
Translation: “14. (1) Unless a different duration is prescribed elsewhere in this Regulation, a short-term residence permit is granted for one year on first application. On subsequent applications, it is granted for 2 years. In determining the short-term residence permit's duration, the foreigner's request, its grounds, and other matters relating to the residence permit are taken into account.”
Article 14(2)(m)(i)-(ii) (Humanitarian Residence Permit)
(m) (i) İnsani İkamet İzni: Bu fıkrada sayılan durumlardan herhangi biri mevcut olmadığında, Baş Muhaceret Memurunun görevlendireceği kişinin kanaatine göre bir yabancıya ikamet izni verilmemesi halinde ilgili yabancının insani koşullar bakımından zorluklarla karşı karşıya kalacağı durumlarda, ilgili yabancıya en fazla bir yıl süreli kısa dönem ikamet izni verilebilir. Böyle bir ikamet izni sahibi kişi, aile ikamet izni bakımından destekleyici olarak kabul edilemez. (ii) İnsani ikamet izin başvurusu yapacak olan yabancı uyruklu kişi, başvuru sırasında ülkede yasal izinli olarak bulunması koşuldur.
Translation: “(m) (i) Humanitarian Residence Permit: Where none of the other circumstances listed in this paragraph apply, and in the opinion of the person designated by the Chief Immigration Officer, a foreigner would face humanitarian hardship if not granted a residence permit, that foreigner may be granted a short-term residence permit for a maximum of one year. A holder of such a permit cannot be treated as a sponsor for a family residence permit. (ii) It is a condition that a foreigner applying for a Humanitarian Residence Permit be lawfully present in the country, under an existing permission, at the time of application.”
Article 15(8) (current text — Health Fund premium, no private-insurance alternative)
(8) Herhangi bir ikamet izni türü için başvuru yapan ve sosyal sigorta kapsamında kamu sağlık hizmetlerinden yararlanma hakkı olmayan yabancılardan Sağlık Fonu Yasası uyarınca prim ödeneği tahsil edilir. Ödenecek olan prim miktarı, talep edilen veya verilmesi tasarlanan ikamet izni süresine göre ayarlanır.
Translation: “(8) A premium is collected under the Health Fund Law from foreigners applying for any type of residence permit who have no right to public health services under social insurance. The premium amount is scaled to the length of residence permit requested or intended to be granted.”
Article 25(1)-(2) (what counts as unauthorised presence, and grace periods)
25. (1) Bir yabancı aşağıdaki hallerde, yetkili makamlardan izinsiz olarak Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde bulunmuş kabul edilir ve hakkında Yasa'da öngörülen para cezaları uygulanır. (a) ...yasal izinli olunan sürenin dolmasından itibaren yeniden yasal izinli hale gelmeksizin Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde kalmaya devam edilmiş olması. (c) İkamet izni muafiyeti gerektiren durumu ortadan kalkan yabancılar, ülkede kalmaya devam etmek istemeleri halinde, bu gibi durumlarının sona erdiği tarihten itibaren kırk gün içerisinde izin başvurusunda bulunmak zorundadırlar. Bu süre içerisinde başvuru yapmayanlar, kırk günlük sürenin dolmasından itibaren yetkili makamlardan izinsiz olarak ülkede bulunmuş sayılırlar. (2) (a) Çalışma veya iş kurma izni süresi biten veya iptal edilen kişiler, izninin iptal edildiği veya sona erdiği tarihten itibaren kırk gün boyunca yetkili makamlardan izinli olarak... bulunmuş kabul edilirler... (b) Öğrenci ikamet izni sahibinin kayıt dondurması veya herhangi bir sebeple öğrencilik durumuna ara verilmesi halinde... bu tarihten itibaren 60 (altmış) gün boyunca yetkili makamlardan izinli olarak... bulunulmuş sayılır. (c) Öğrenci ikamet izni sahibi olup da... mezun olan yabancılar, son alınan öğrenci ikamet izni bitiş tarihinden itibaren altmış gün süresince, ülkede yetkili makamlardan izinli olarak bulunmuş sayılırlar.
Translation: “25. (1) A foreigner is considered to be present in the TRNC without authorisation from the competent authorities, and the fines prescribed in the Law apply to them, in the following cases: (a) ...continuing to remain in the TRNC after their period of lawful permission has expired, without becoming lawfully authorised again. (c) Foreigners whose circumstance requiring a residence-permit exemption has ceased, who wish to continue staying in the country, must apply for a permit within forty days of that circumstance ending. Those who do not apply within this period are considered to be present without authorisation from the competent authorities from the end of the forty-day period. (2)(a) Persons whose work or business-establishment permit has expired or been cancelled are considered to be present with authorisation from the competent authorities for forty days from the date of cancellation or expiry... (b) Where a student residence-permit holder defers their registration or otherwise interrupts their studies for any reason, ...they are considered present with authorisation from the competent authorities for 60 days from that date. (c) Foreigners holding a student residence permit who graduate... are considered present with authorisation from the competent authorities for sixty days from the expiry date of their last student residence permit.”
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- rules: Family Residence Permit: up to ten years by default, capped at the sponsor's own remaining status · Humanitarian Residence Permit: discretionary, capped, last-resort only · Marriage-of-convenience investigation: triggers, and the consequence for a citizen-spouse case · Non-owner (rental) short-term residence: income routes by age and pension status · Over-60 residence exemption is relationally conditioned, not universal · When unauthorised presence begins, and the grace periods that delay it · Pre-title short-term residence route: a third of the price paid, plus a Permission to Purchase application · Shared-title dwelling: generally one shareholder's residence permit at a time, with a narrow exception · Stamped sale contract plus income: up to five years' residence before title transfer · A property owner's residence permit does not automatically cover their spouse or children · Short-term residence permit: default duration where no specific category applies · Six residence/visa facilitations for Turkish citizens under Article 28A · Visa stays may not exceed 90 days in any rolling 180-day period · Tourist/visit-purpose visa durations by circumstance
- claims: Article 15(8) of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation, as it currently reads, states only one exemption from the Health Fund premium: having a right to public health services under social insurance. It states no exemption for holding private health insurance. A residence-permit applicant with private insurance but no social-insurance right therefore appears, on the current text alone, to still owe the premium. A private-insurance exemption did exist in the original 2020 text of this same provision and was removed, at the latest, by A.E.350/2021.
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src-mevzuat-residence-regulation-2026-09 - Residence Permits and Visas Regulation under Chapter 105 Aliens and Immigration Law, consolidated text dated 19 February 2026
İkamet İzinleri ve Vizeler Tüzüğü (Fasıl 105, Yabancılar ve Muhaceret Yasası)
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 19 February 2026 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Article 16 in full, all six paragraphs and every lettered sub-clause, with exact wording and every visible amendment marker recorded; Article 17 in full, closing the 2026-09-18 gap on (2) onward; Article 18 in full (the marriage-of-convenience scrutiny regime), closing the 2026-09-18 gap beyond its opening line..
Reading note: Read directly and quoted verbatim, not assumed from a prior summary. Confirms every marker location precisely: 16(1)(a) 11(1).A.E.88/2020; 16(1)(b) no marker; 16(1)(c) 11(1).A.E.88/2020 + 7.A.E.350/2021; 16(1)(ç) no marker; 16(1)(d) 11(1).A.E.88/2020; 16(1)(e) 11(1).A.E.88/2020; 16(1)(f) 7.A.E.350/2021; 16(2)(a)-(c) no marker; 16(2)(ç) 11(2).A.E.88/2020; 16(2)(d) 6.A.E.336/2025; 16(3) 11(3).A.E.88/2020; 16(4),(5),(6) no marker visible in this consolidated copy (not proof these are unamended, only that no marker is shown here).
Editorial note: Read for Articles 13-18 over several readings; not yet read cover to cover (Articles 1-12, 19-31 remain unread as of 18 September 2026). Cited as the source for one historical rule, the student residence-permit cap that applied until 23 August 2026; the rules currently in force under the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation come from the later amending instruments, A.E.460/2026 and A.E.784/2026.
Used by
- rules: A residence-permit applicant with no social-insurance right owes a Health Fund premium · Pre-title short-term residence route: a third of the price paid, plus a Permission to Purchase application · Shared-title dwelling: generally one shareholder's residence permit at a time, with a narrow exception · Stamped sale contract plus income: up to five years' residence before title transfer · Student residence permit: two years at a time (historical, superseded)
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src-mevzuat-residence-regulation-2026 - Rules made under sections 8(2)(A) and 22 of Law 67/2005 (English text)
Immovable Property Commission · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
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src-ipc-rules-english - Social Security Law No. 73/2007 (Sosyal Güvenlik Yasası), consolidated text incorporating amendments through 2024
73/2007 Sayılı Sosyal Güvenlik Yasası
Social Insurance Department, TRNC (Ministry of Labour and Social Security) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Bölüm 4-5 (Articles 30-35: Sickness and Maternity Insurance rules) and Kısım 3 (Articles 72-76: Health Services rules), plus Articles 67-70 (Voluntary Insurance rules), read in full and quoted directly..
Reading note: Uses a full-text file already held — no new fetch required. Directly answers several healthcare-related questions with primary-verified evidence: health-service eligibility (Art. 72), coverage scope (Art. 73), qualifying periods (Art. 74), duration limits (Art. 75), co-payment structure (Art. 76), sick-pay qualifying conditions (Art. 31), maternity health services and cash-benefit residence threshold (Art. 35), and — the single highest-value new finding — that voluntary insurance (the only route into this Law's health-service system for someone not compulsorily insured through employment) is restricted by Article 68(1) to TRNC citizens only, meaning a non-working, non-citizen foreign resident has no route into Social Security health coverage at all. Still not read cover to cover; this reading remains targeted to healthcare-related questions.
Editorial note: Read directly by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. Located via the Social Insurance Department's own website (ssd.gov.ct.tr), which serves the current consolidated law directly as a clean, machine-readable PDF (107 pages), resolving an earlier failure to locate this instrument via mevzuat.gov.ct.tr filename guesses. The Department's own site states this consolidated text incorporates amendments through 22/2024; an internal marker ('3,53/2026') on Article 9(1)(B) suggests at least this specific sub-paragraph has been touched by a still more recent 2026 amending instrument not independently traced. Confirms Article 6(1)(E) as the specific statutory anchor for the 'Sosyal Güvenlik Anlaşması' (Social Security Agreement) concept the Foreigners' Work Permits Regulation's Article 17(3) draws on, but does not itself name any concluded agreement or list countries. Read narrowly, bounded to foreign workers, registration, employer obligations, international agreements, exemptions, and the connection to work permits — not read cover to cover. Currentness note: Articles 68, 70, 74, 75 and 76 (voluntary insurance conditions, voluntary premiums, and the three core health-service articles: qualifying conditions, duration, co-payment) each carry an internal amendment marker naming Law 53/2026 — the same unrecovered 2026 amending instrument already flagged against Article 9(1)(B). Article 35(2) (maternity cash-benefit conditions) carries the same marker. This means the entire health-services chapter read here rests on the Department's own current consolidation being accurate, not on independent verification of Law 53/2026's actual text — a disclosed, carried-forward gap, not a new one.
Quoted passages (13)
Definitions article — "Sosyal Güvenlik Anlaşması"
"Sosyal Güvenlik Anlaşması", Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Meclisinin onayladığı ikili veya çok taraflı Sosyal Güvenlik Sözleşmelerini ve bu sözleşmelerin uygulama hükümlerini düzenleyen anlaşmaları anlatır.
Translation: “"Social Security Agreement" means bilateral or multilateral Social Security Agreements approved by the TRNC Assembly, and the arrangements regulating the implementing provisions of those agreements.”
Article 5(4) (the ordinary private-sector employee category)
(4) Bir işverenin yanında hizmet akdine dayandırılarak çalıştırılmaya başlayanlar (çıraklar dahil) ile belirli bir işyerinde sürekli olarak ve ücret karşılığında ev hizmetlerinde çalıştırılanlar; ... sigortalı sayılırlar.
Translation: “(4) Those who begin to be employed by an employer under a contract of service (including apprentices), and those employed continuously for wages in domestic/household services at a specific workplace; ... are considered insured.”
Article 6(1)(E)-(F) (exemptions from compulsory insurance for certain foreign workers)
(E) İşyeri merkezi, Sosyal Güvenlik Antlaşması yapılan ülkelerden birinde bulunan bir kuruluş tarafından o kuruluş adına iki yılı geçmemek üzere görevli olarak Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetindeki şubesine gönderilen yabancı uyruklular; (F) Yabancı bir ülkede kurulu herhangi bir kuruluş tarafından o kuruluş adına üç ayı geçmemek üzere bir iş için Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetine gönderilen ve yabancı ülkede sigortaya tabi olduğu belgelenen yabancı uyruklular; ... bu Yasanın 5'inci maddesine göre sigortalı sayılmazlar.
Translation: “(E) Foreign nationals sent, for a period not exceeding two years, on assignment by an organisation whose head office is located in a country with which a Social Security Agreement has been concluded, to that organisation's branch in the TRNC; (F) Foreign nationals sent by an organisation established in a foreign country, on that organisation's behalf, for a job not exceeding three months, to the TRNC, who can document that they are subject to insurance in that foreign country; ... are not considered insured under Article 5 of this Law.”
Article 9(1)(B) (employer registration obligation and deadline)
Bu Yasanın 5'inci maddesinin (4)'üncü fıkrasında belirtilen sigortalıları çalıştıran işverenler, çalıştırdıkları kişileri, çalıştırmaya başladıkları tarihten başlayarak en geç 15 (on beş) gün içinde, örneği Kurumca hazırlanan işe giriş bildirgesiyle Kuruma bildirmekle yükümlüdürler.
Translation: “Employers employing insured persons specified in Article 5(4) of this Law are obliged to notify the Institution, at the latest within 15 days from the date employment begins, of the persons they employ, using an employment-entry declaration in the form prepared by the Institution.”
Article 119 (enabling power for international agreements)
Bakanlık, sigortalıların çalıştığı yabancı ülkelerle veya ülkede çalışan yabancı uyrukluların ülkeleriyle sosyal güvenlik anlaşmaları yapabilir.
Translation: “The Ministry may conclude social security agreements with the foreign countries where insured persons work, or with the countries of foreign nationals working in the TRNC.”
Article 68(1) (conditions for voluntary insurance)
İsteğe bağlı sigortalı olabilmek için aşağıdaki koşullar aranır: (1) Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti yurttaşı olup, bu Yasaya tabi zorunlu sigortalı olmayı gerektirecek şekilde çalışmamak, (2) Kendi çalışmaları nedeniyle bu Yasadan veya üçüncü ülkelerle yapılan anlaşmalar uyarınca hizmet birleştirilmesinden dolayı aylık bağlanmamış olmak, (3) On sekiz yaşını doldurmuş bulunmak, (4) İsteğe bağlı sigorta talep dilekçesiyle Kuruma başvuruda bulunmak.
Translation: “The following conditions apply to become a voluntary insured person: (1) being a citizen of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and not working in a way that would require compulsory insurance under this Law, (2) not already receiving a pension arising from one's own work under this Law or from service combination under agreements with third countries, (3) having completed the age of eighteen, (4) applying to the Institution by voluntary-insurance request petition.”
Article 72 (persons entitled to health services)
Bu Yasa altında sigortalı sayılanlar ile bu sigortalıların geçindirmekle yükümlü olduğu kişiler ve bu Yasaya göre sürekli işgöremezlik geliri, malüllük ve yaşlılık aylığı alanlarla bunların geçindirmekle yükümlü olduğu kişiler ile dul ve yetimlik aylığı alanlar sağlık hizmetlerinden yararlanırlar.
Translation: “Persons considered insured under this Law, together with the persons such insured persons are legally obliged to support, and persons receiving permanent-incapacity income, disability or old-age pension under this Law together with the persons they are obliged to support, and persons receiving widow's or orphan's pension, benefit from health services.”
Article 73 (scope of health services)
Bu Yasanın 72'nci maddesinde belirtilen kişilere sağlanacak sağlık hizmetleri: (1) Kurumca uygun görülecek sağlık kuruluşlarına veya hekimlere muayene ettirilmesi... (2) Teşhis ve tedavi için gerekirse Kurumun uygun göreceği sağlık kuruluşlarına yatırılması, (3) Gerekli hallerde muayene ve tedavi için ülkede başka bir yere gönderilmesi, (4) Tedavi süresince ilaçların sağlanması, (5) İyileştirme amaçlı tıbbi sarf malzemeleri ile tedaviye yönelik ve estetik amaç taşımayan ortez, protez, araç ve gereçler, gözlük çerçeve ve camlarının sağlanması... (7) ...sigortalı sayılanların görevli olarak yurtdışında bulundukları sırada hastalanmaları veya iş kazası geçirmeleri halinde... sağlanan acil sağlık hizmetleri, (8) Merkezi Sağlık Kurulu kararı ile olmak koşuluyla, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde tanı ve tedavisi yapılamayan hastalıkların yurtdışında yaptırılan tanı ve tedavi hizmetleri... Bu madde kapsamında sağlanacak sağlık hizmetlerinin kamu sağlık kuruluşlarından sağlanması esastır. Ancak Kurum, Yönetim Kurulu kararı ile özel sağlık hizmet sunucularından da hizmet alımı yapılabilir.
Translation: “The health services to be provided to the persons named in Article 72 of this Law: (1) examination at health institutions or by physicians the Institution deems appropriate... (2) hospitalisation at health institutions the Institution deems appropriate, where diagnosis or treatment requires it, (3) referral elsewhere in the country for examination and treatment where necessary, (4) provision of medicines during treatment, (5) provision of curative medical consumables and non-cosmetic treatment-related orthoses, prostheses, devices and equipment, and spectacle frames and lenses... (7) ...emergency health services provided where an insured person falls ill or has a workplace accident while on official duty abroad, (8) subject to a Central Health Board decision, diagnosis and treatment services obtained abroad for illnesses that cannot be diagnosed or treated in the TRNC... Health services under this article are, as a rule, to be obtained from public health institutions. However, the Institution may, by decision of its Management Board, also procure services from private health-service providers.”
Article 74 (qualifying conditions to access health services)
Sigortalıların ve geçindirmekle yükümlü olduğu kişilerin bu Yasanın 73'üncü maddesinin (1)'inci, (2)'nci, (3)'üncü, (4)'üncü, (5)'inci, (6)'ncı ve (7)'nci fıkralarında öngörülen sağlık hizmetlerinden yararlanabilmeleri için sağlık hizmetlerine başvuru tarihinden önceki 6 (altı) takvim ayı içinde en az 60 (altmış) gün hastalık sigortası primi ödenmiş olması koşuldur. Bu Yasanın 73'üncü maddesinin (8)'inci fıkrasında öngörülen yurt dışı tedavi hizmetlerinden yararlanabilmeleri için ise başvuru tarihinden önceki 12 (on iki) takvim ayı içinde en az 240 (iki yüz kırk) gün hastalık sigortası primi ödenmiş olması koşuldur. Ancak iş kazaları ile meslek hastalıkları halinde ve bu Yasa altında sürekli iş göremezlik geliri, malüllük ve yaşlılık aylığı alan kişilerle bunların geçindirmekle yükümlü olduğu kişiler ile dul ve yetim aylığı alanlardan... yukarıda belirtilen prim ödeme koşulları aranmaz.
Translation: “For insured persons and the persons they are obliged to support to benefit from the health services under Article 73(1)-(7) of this Law, at least 60 days of sickness insurance premium must have been paid within the 6 calendar months preceding the date of application. To benefit from the overseas treatment services under Article 73(8), at least 240 days of sickness insurance premium must have been paid within the 12 calendar months preceding the date of application. However, in cases of workplace accidents and occupational diseases, and for persons receiving permanent-incapacity income, disability or old-age pension under this Law, the persons they are obliged to support, and persons receiving widow's or orphan's pension, the above premium-payment conditions do not apply.”
Article 75 (duration of health services during temporary incapacity)
(1) Bu Yasa kapsamında geçici iş göremezlik ödeneği almakta olan sigortalılar ve geçindirmekle yükümlü olduğu kimseler için verilecek sağlık hizmetleri, sigortalının hekim raporunda iyileşip çalışabileceğinin belirtildiği tarihe kadar sürer. Ancak bu yardımlar, sigortalının tedavi altına alındığı tarihten başlayarak 6 (altı) ayı geçemez. Tedaviye devam edilirse malüllük halinin önlenebileceği veya önemli oranda azaltılabileceği Merkezi Sağlık Kurulu Raporu ile belgelenmesi durumunda bu süre 18 (on sekiz) aya kadar uzatılabilir. (2) İş kazaları ile meslek hastalığı hallerinde, sigortalının sağlık yardımları sağlık durumlarının gerektirdiği sürece devam eder. (3) Bu sürelere bağlı olmaksızın bu Yasanın 72'nci maddesinde belirtilen kişilere ortez, protez, tıbbi araç ve gereç sağlanır, takılır, onarılır ve yenilenir.
Translation: “(1) Health services provided to insured persons receiving temporary-incapacity benefit under this Law, and to the persons they are obliged to support, continue until the date the physician's report states the insured person has recovered and can work. However, these benefits cannot exceed 6 months from the date treatment began. Where a Central Health Board report certifies that continued treatment could prevent or significantly reduce permanent incapacity, this period may be extended up to 18 months. (2) In cases of workplace accidents and occupational disease, an insured person's health benefits continue for as long as their health condition requires. (3) Independently of these time limits, orthoses, prostheses and medical devices and equipment are provided, fitted, repaired and renewed for the persons named in Article 72 of this Law.”
Article 76 (co-payment payable by insured persons)
(1) Katkı payı alınacak sağlık hizmetleri ve katkı payları aşağıdaki şekilde olup, sigortalı tarafından ödenir: (A) Ayakta yapılan tedavilerde verilen ilaçlar için ilaç bedelinin % 20 (yüzde yirmi)'si, (B) İyileştirme amaçlı ortez, protez araç ve gereç bedelinin % 20 (yüzde yirmi)'si, (C) Tedavi amaçlı görsel tanıya yönelik hizmetler ve laboratuvar hizmetleri için hizmet bedelinin % 20 (yüzde yirmi)'si. Ancak yukarıdaki (B) bendi kapsamında sigortalının ödeyeceği miktar hiçbir şekilde yürürlükteki aylık brüt asgari ücreti aşamaz. (2) ...bu Yasa kapsamında sürekli iş göremezlik geliri, malüllük ve yaşlılık aylığı alan kişilerle, bunların geçindirmekle yükümlü oldukları kişiler ile dulluk ve yetimlik aylığı alanlar için yukarıdaki (1)'inci fıkranın (A) bendinde belirtilen sağlık hizmetlerinin Kamu Sağlık Kurumlarında alınması halinde katkı payı uygulanmaz.
Translation: “(1) The health services subject to co-payment, and the co-payment rates, payable by the insured person, are as follows: (A) 20% of the price of medicines given in outpatient treatment, (B) 20% of the price of curative orthoses, prostheses, devices and equipment, (C) 20% of the service price for treatment-related diagnostic imaging services and laboratory services. However, the amount payable by the insured person under (B) may never exceed the monthly gross minimum wage in force. (2) ...for persons receiving permanent-incapacity income, disability or old-age pension under this Law, the persons they are obliged to support, and persons receiving widow's or orphan's pension, no co-payment applies to the services under paragraph (1)(A) where obtained from Public Health Institutions.”
Article 31(2)(A) (temporary-incapacity/sick-pay qualifying condition)
Hastalık sebebiyle geçici işgöremezliğe uğrayan sigortalılardan geçici işgöremezliğin başladığı tarihten önceki on iki takvim ayı içinde en az doksan gün hastalık sigortası primi ödemiş bulunanlara, geçici işgöremezliğin üçüncü gününden başlamak ve altı ayı geçmemek üzere, her gün için geçici işgöremezlik ödeneği verilir. Ancak tedaviye devam edilirse malüllük halinin önlenebileceği veya önemli oranda azaltılabileceği Sağlık Kurulu raporu ile belgelenmesi halinde, bu süre on sekiz aya kadar uzatılabilir.
Translation: “Insured persons who suffer temporary incapacity due to illness and who have paid at least 90 days of sickness-insurance premium within the 12 calendar months preceding the start of the temporary incapacity are given a daily temporary-incapacity benefit, starting from the third day of incapacity and not exceeding 6 months. However, where a Health Board report certifies that continued treatment could prevent or significantly reduce permanent incapacity, this period may be extended up to 18 months.”
Article 35(1)-(2) (maternity insurance: health services and cash benefits)
Bu Yasaya tabi sigortalı kadının veya bu Yasaya tabi sigortalı erkeğin sigortalı olmayan karısının analığı halinde aşağıdaki yardımlar sağlanır: (1) Sağlık hizmeti verilmesi; Sigortalı kadına veya sigortalı erkeğin sigortalı olmayan karısına gebelik süresince yapılan muayene ve tedaviler ile doğum sırasında ve doğumdan sonra kendisi ve doğan çocuk veya çocuklarına gerekli olan her türlü sağlık hizmeti Üçüncü Kısımda belirtilen kurallar kapsamında sağlanır. (2) Bu Yasaya tabi sigortalı kadının veya bu Yasaya tabi sigortalı erkeğin sigortalı olmayan karısının analığı halinde, doğumdan önceki 12 (on iki) takvim ayı içinde en az 120 (yüz yirmi) gün analık sigortası primi ödenmiş ve Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde kesintisiz olup olmadığına bakılmaksızın yasal olarak toplam 5 (beş) yıl ikamet etmiş olması koşulu ile aşağıdaki maktu yardımlar sağlanır: (A) Gebelik yardım parası... aylık brüt asgari ücretin % 20'si... (B) Doğum yardım parası... aylık brüt asgari ücretin % 40'ı...
Translation: “In case of maternity of an insured woman subject to this Law, or of the non-insured wife of an insured man subject to this Law, the following benefits are provided: (1) Provision of health services; every health service required for the insured woman, or the non-insured wife of the insured man, during pregnancy, and for herself and the newborn child or children during and after childbirth, is provided under the rules stated in Part Three [Articles 72-76]. (2) In case of such maternity, provided at least 120 days of maternity-insurance premium have been paid within the 12 calendar months preceding the birth, AND the person has legally resided in the TRNC for a total of 5 years (whether continuously or not), the following lump-sum benefits are provided: (A) Pregnancy grant... 20% of the monthly gross minimum wage... (B) Birth grant... 40% of the monthly gross minimum wage...”
Used by
- rules: Maternity health services need no residence test; cash grants need 5 years' legal residence · "Social Security Agreement" (Sosyal Güvenlik Anlaşması) is a defined legal concept under TRNC law · Social Security health-service entitlement and coverage scope · Social Security sickness (temporary-incapacity) benefit — qualifying conditions · Voluntary Social Security insurance is restricted by statute to TRNC citizens
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src-sosyal-guvenlik-yasasi-73-2007 - Tax Procedure Law, No. 27/1977 (consolidated through relevant amendment 24/2015)
27/1977 Sayılı Vergi Usul Yasası
Tax Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial — Articles 95-98 (place-of-business definition) and penalty/interest articles read; the wider procedural statute not read cover to cover. TRNC law does not use the international term 'permanent establishment', but has a directly quotable domestic analogue: 'işyeri' (place of business, Art. 97, quoted above) and 'daimi temsilci' (permanent representative, referenced but not separately quoted). A foreign corporation with a TRNC işyeri or daimi temsilci is taxed on its TRNC business profits under ordinary self-assessed corporate-tax rules (Corporate Tax Law Art. 12(1)); a foreign corporation without either is instead caught by final gross-basis withholding taxes under Income Tax Law Article 31. Gap: the exact current late-payment interest rate (set under the separate Kamu Alacaklarının Tahsili Usulü Yasası / Public Receivables Collection Procedure Law) has not yet been fetched or confirmed.
Quoted passages (1)
Article 97 ("İşyerinin tanımı" — definition of place of business)
Ticarî sınaî, tarımsal ve meslekî faaliyette işyeri; mağaza, yazıhane, idarehane, muayenehane, imalâthane, şûbe, depo, otel, kahvehane, eğlence ve spor yerleri, tarla, bağ, bahçe, çiftlik, hayvancılık tesisleri, madenler, taş ocakları, inşaat şantiyeleri, vapur büfeleri gibi ticarî, sınaî, tarımsal veya meslekî bir faaliyetin yürütülmesine ayrılan veya bu tür faaliyetlerde kullanılan yerdir.
Translation: “A place of business (işyeri), for commercial, industrial, agricultural and professional activity, is a store, office, administrative office, clinic, workshop, branch, warehouse, hotel, coffee house, entertainment/sports venue, field, vineyard, orchard, farm, livestock facility, mine, quarry, construction site, ship's buffet, or similar place set aside for, or used in, a commercial, industrial, agricultural or professional activity.”
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src-tax-procedure-law-27-1977 - The Administration of Estates of Deceased Persons Law, Cap. 189 (Republic of Cyprus consolidated text, shared colonial-era origin)
Ο περί Διαχείρισης Κληρονομιών Αποθανόντων Νόμος - ΚΕΦ.189
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Republic of Cyprus · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Greek
Reading: Acquired.
Editorial note: Same recovery and jurisdiction caveat as src-cylaw-cap195-wills-succession (see that record's notes in full) — paired statute closing the same K1 #1 research-debt item. 123,223 bytes, byte-complete. Independently corroborated as still operative in current TRNC practice: the newly-recovered Holiday Homes Law 54/2025 cites 'Fasıl 189 Terekelerin İdaresi Yasası' by name, twice, as the currently-operative TRNC procedure for transferring a registration after an owner's death.
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src-cylaw-cap189-administration-estates - The Bankruptcy Law, Cap. 5 (Republic of Cyprus consolidated text, shared colonial-era origin)
Ο περί Πτώχευσης Νόμος - ΚΕΦ.5
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Republic of Cyprus · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Greek
Reading: Acquired. Located, downloaded, byte-verified; one relevant passage on secured/preferential creditor priority found via targeted keyword search and machine-assisted translation, not a systematic article-by-article read..
Reading note: A genuine identity-recovery, not yet a full-text verification. The Turkish Cypriot Supreme Court is reported (secondary source) to require this Law be read together with the 1933 Tasfiye Tüzüğü and the Civil Procedure Code — neither of those companion instruments has yet been located.
Editorial note: Jurisdiction caveat: same as NCR's other cylaw.org recoveries (Cap 195, 189, 149, 333) — this is the Republic of Cyprus's own current, independently amended consolidated text of a pre-1974 British colonial-era statute shared by both successor jurisdictions. It is not a TRNC-government-published text and is tagged accordingly, never presented silently as current TRNC statute. It was identified via a professional/secondary source (a Gürkan & Gürkan law-firm article on TRNC company liquidation, https://www.gurkangurkan.com/yayinlar/kktcde-sirketlerin-tasfiyesi.32.aspx), which names 'Fasıl 5 İflas Yasası' as the Bankruptcy Law the TRNC's own Supreme Court has held must be applied together with the 1933 Tasfiye Tüzüğü (1933 Liquidation Regulation) and the Hukuk Muhakemeleri Usülü Tüzüğü (Civil Procedure Code) for company winding-up creditor-priority questions — this three-instrument combination, not this Law alone, is the article's own account of the operative TRNC framework. Neither the 1933 Tüzük nor the Civil Procedure Code's relevant provisions have yet been independently located or read. This confirms the identity of the law that Companies Law Fasıl 113 Article 299 defers to for creditor priority, but does not confirm the TRNC's actual applicable creditor-priority order in full — that would need the 1933 Tüzük specifically (a TRNC instrument, not a shared Cap) plus a full read of this Law's secured/preferential-creditor articles, neither done yet, given the added complexity of a three-instrument combination. 394,419 bytes, byte-complete (Content-Length-verified). The page encoding is windows-1253 (Greek), not UTF-8 — noted for any future automated re-processing.
Quoted passages (1)
Provision on preferential and secured creditors (article number not yet pinned down — found via keyword search, not sequential reading)
Οι προνομιούχοι πιστωτές, όπως καθορίζονται στον παρόντα Νόμο, δεν θα έχουν οποιοδήποτε δικαίωμα ή προτεραιότητα αναφορικά με το προϊόν της διάθεσης εξασφαλισμένης περιουσίας που θα χρησιμοποιείται για εξόφληση των ποσών που εξασφαλίζονται με την επιβάρυνση, αλλά θα έχουν δικαίωμα προτεραιότητας αναφορικά με το οποιοδήποτε υπόλοιπο.
Translation: “Preferential creditors, as defined in this Law, shall have no right or priority in respect of the proceeds of disposal of secured property used to discharge the amounts secured by the charge, but shall have priority in respect of any surplus. [NCR machine-assisted translation, not professionally verified.]”
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src-cylaw-cap5-bankruptcy - The Contracts Law, Cap. 149 (Republic of Cyprus consolidated text, shared colonial-era origin)
Ο περί Συμβάσεων Νόμος - ΚΕΦ.149
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Republic of Cyprus · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Greek
Reading: Acquired.
Editorial note: Same recovery route and jurisdiction caveat as src-cylaw-cap195-wills-succession (see that record's notes) — closes K2 #6 research-debt item (General TRNC Contract Law, needed for the default tenancy-deposit regime and other contract matters). 243,927 bytes, byte-complete — the largest of the three Cap recoveries this reading, consistent with a general contract code. Not yet cross-checked against any independent TRNC-specific contract-law amendments; not yet used to draft any specific Claim/Rule on tenancy deposits or other matters.
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src-cylaw-cap149-contracts - The Wills and Succession Law, Cap. 195 (Republic of Cyprus consolidated text, shared colonial-era origin)
Ο περί Διαθηκών και Διαδοχής Νόμος - ΚΕΦ.195
Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Republic of Cyprus · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Greek
Reading: Read in part. Article index (54 articles across 4 Parts) and Article 44 (statutory spouse's share) read directly..
Reading note: Recovered but not yet read cover to cover; a further pass should read the intestate-succession, forced-heirship and disqualification provisions in full before any Claim/Rule is drafted from this source.
Editorial note: Jurisdiction caveat: this is the Republic of Cyprus's own current, independently amended consolidated text of a pre-1974 British colonial-era statute shared by both successor jurisdictions (Cap. numbering). It is genuine primary legislative text of real value, especially for the largely unamended core, but it is not a TRNC-government-published text; any Claim or Rule built from it is tagged accordingly (jurisdiction 'republic-of-cyprus', or an explicit shared-colonial-origin/ROC-consolidated flag), exactly as NCR already does for its two roc-prefixed Criminal Code rules — never presented silently as current TRNC statute. Recovered via cylaw.org (the Cyprus Bar Association's consolidated-legislation database) after mevzuat.gov.ct.tr's laws page and Fasıl/chapter browse page were searched with no TRNC-specific match. This closes a real evidence gap: the Inheritance domain had previously rested on two secondary academic articles quoting this statute second-hand, not the primary text itself. 88,668 bytes, byte-complete: 54 articles across 4 parts (general succession rules, wills, surviving-spouse rights, miscellaneous). The newly recovered Holiday Homes Law 54/2025 independently cites the paired Administration of Estates Law (Fasıl 189) by name for the TRNC's own current post-death registration-transfer practice, corroborating that this Cap-numbering identification is correct for current TRNC practice, not merely a Republic of Cyprus parallel.
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src-cylaw-cap195-wills-succession - Traffic Department (Establishment, Duties and Working Principles) Law, No. 17/2016, consolidated with amendments 32/2025 and 11/2026
Trafik Dairesi (Kuruluş, Görev ve Çalışma Esasları) Yasası, 17/2016
Traffic Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full ~18-article text read..
Reading note: Institutional/organisational law, not the source of substantive licence-eligibility rules.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. Very recent consolidation (amendments 32/2025 and 11/2026). Full text read (around 18 articles). This is the institutional/organisational law confirming the Traffic Department's structure and duties — it does not itself state substantive driving-licence eligibility rules (minimum age, exam content), which are delegated by the separate Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Law 21/1974 to an implementing Tüzük not yet located.
Quoted passages (4)
Article 4 (institutional structure)
[One Director; four central branches — Traffic Services; Vehicle Registration, Inspection and Licensing (Araç Kayıt, Muayene ve Ruhsatlandırma Şubesi); Driving Licence and Inspectors (Sürüş Ehliyeti ve Müfettişleri Şubesi); Permitting and Supervision — plus regional units in Gazimağusa, Girne, Güzelyurt, İskele, Lefke.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 7 (Vehicle Registration, Inspection and Licensing branch duties)
[Registering/licensing vehicles and trailers, issuing/withdrawing/restoring plates, setting annual inspection dates for state and civilian vehicles, issuing inspection-pass certificates, inspecting deregistered vehicles, handling vehicle type/class changes, temporary traffic suspension, export processing, and collecting inspection fees.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 8 (Driving Licence branch duties)
[Organising/supervising the Driving Licence Inspectorate; conducting licence exams; evaluating criteria licence-holders must meet at the time of and after obtaining a licence; printing/issuing licences.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Articles 10-11 (Driving-School Supervision and Appeals Board)
[A 6-member board — Ministry Undersecretary (chair), Ministry Director, Traffic Department Director, one Health Ministry representative, one Education Ministry representative, one Police representative at Inspector rank or above — supervises driving schools and licence examiners and rules on exam appeals.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
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src-traffic-department-law-17-2016 - TRNC Official Gazette Issue 159 (15 July 2021) — A.E.543, National Education Law: Compulsory Education (Amendment) Regulation
Resmi Gazete Sayı 159, 15 Temmuz 2021 — A.E.543 Milli Eğitim Yasası - Zorunlu Eğitim (Değişiklik) Tüzüğü
Ministry of National Education and Culture, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full text extraction of the 155-page issue reviewed structurally: the table of contents (Ek listing), the opening and closing of the EK III catchment-zone table (pages 2-147), a full-document search for any operative article text, and the EK IV Bölüm I Council of Ministers decision pages (148-152, confirmed to be an unrelated jetty-permit decision, not the education Tüzük's own Kararname)..
Reading note: The underlying Council of Ministers Kararname (E.S(K-I) 807-2021) that formally enacts this Tüzük was not itself located within this issue — not pursued further once the substantive catchment-zone content (the actual operative change) was confirmed directly.
Editorial note: Fetched and read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, specifically to determine what A.E.543/2021 changes in the compulsory-education framework, per the guidance for this research not to assume from the title what it changes. FINDING: A.E.543 (and its underlying Council of Ministers regulation, referenced in the Gazette index as E.S(K-I) 807-2021, not itself located within this same issue) is, in its entirety, a nationwide STREET-TO-SCHOOL CATCHMENT-ZONE TABLE — assigning specific streets/neighbourhoods in every TRNC municipality to a specific primary school and kindergarten. The full ~145-page EK III section was read structurally (start, representative samples throughout, and the end/transition to EK IV) and no operative article ('Madde'), penalty provision, definition, or applicability statement was found anywhere in it — a direct text search for 'Madde'/'MADDE' across the entire extracted text returned zero matches. CONCLUSION: this instrument does not touch Article 49(7)'s non-attendance penalties, does not touch any definition, does not touch procedure, and does not address foreign-child applicability in any way — it is purely an administrative catchment-zone/boundary-assignment regulation. The genuine currentness gap flagged against Article 49(7) in a related finding and q-live-non-attendance-compulsory-education-consequence.json is now CLOSED with a definitive negative result: this specific instrument is not the source of any change to those provisions. NOTE ON THE DOWNLOAD ITSELF: the first fetch attempt of this 9.17MB PDF was silently truncated by a curl timeout (produced a 7.96MB file that pdfjs correctly rejected as an invalid PDF, 'Invalid Root reference') — re-fetched with a longer timeout and confirmed byte-for-byte against the server's own Content-Length before reading; flagged here as a technique note for future large-Gazette-PDF fetches in this project.
Quoted passages (1)
EK III (Tebliğ ve İlanlar), A.E.543 — opening of the catchment-zone schedule
SOKAK / MAHALLE-KÖY / BELEDİYE / OKUL ADI / ANAOKULLAR / 4 YAŞ OKULLARI / AÇIKLAMA. Dr. Burhan Nalbantoğlu Caddesi / Ortaköy / LEFKOŞA BELEDİYESİ / 9 Eylül İlkokulu/Şht. Yalçın İlkokulu / Yeni Yüzyıl Anaokulu ... [continues for approximately 145 pages, street by street and municipality by municipality, across the whole of the TRNC]
Translation: “STREET / NEIGHBOURHOOD-VILLAGE / MUNICIPALITY / SCHOOL NAME / KINDERGARTENS / AGE-4 SCHOOLS / NOTE. Dr. Burhan Nalbantoğlu Avenue / Ortaköy / NICOSIA MUNICIPALITY / 9 Eylül Primary School / Şehit Yalçın Primary School / Yeni Yüzyıl Kindergarten ... [continues for approximately 145 pages, street by street and municipality by municipality, across the whole of the TRNC]”
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src-gazette-2021-159-ae543 - Value Added Tax Law, No. 47/1992 (consolidated through amending Law 13/2023), together with the currently-effective VAT Rates Regulation
47/1992 Sayılı Katma Değer Vergisi Yasası, ve 2025 Yılı Katma Değer Vergisi Oranları Tüzüğü (16.09.2026'ya kadar güncellenmiş)
Tax Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. VAT Law: full table of contents, plus Articles 2, 3, 9, 28, 40, 44 read in full. VAT Rates Regulation (currently effective, amended to 16.09.2026): read in full including all five rate schedules..
Reading note: Not the whole VAT Law read cover to cover — registration-threshold and penalty articles specifically were searched for and not conclusively located.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial: VAT Law full table of contents plus scope (Art. 2, 3, 9), rate-authorisation (Art. 28), filing (Art. 40) and assessment (Art. 44) articles read in full; the currently-effective VAT Rates Regulation (a .docx amended as recently as 16 September 2026, four days before this research) read IN FULL including all five rate schedules. HIGH VALUE — directly resolves NCR's existing open Property Question (q-property-taxes-and-fees, previously answered by no source): VAT on a property purchase is NOT blanket-exempt and NOT a single flat rate. It applies only when the SELLER supplies in the course of a business activity (so a developer/professional real-estate business sale is in scope; a private individual's one-off home sale, outside a business, is not) — and where in scope, the rate is 5% for units up to 300 sqm and 10% for units 300 sqm and above. CORRECTS A WRONG EARLIER AUTOMATED-SUMMARY CLAIM (from an earlier low-fidelity fetch attempt) that Article 14 exempts real estate — Article 14 is actually the transport/transport-vehicles exemption; the correct property-VAT picture is the rate-schedule finding above. IMPORTANT CURRENTNESS NOTE: the Law's own statutory DEFAULT rate (10%, Art. 28) is NOT the rate that actually applies to most transactions today — the Council-of-Ministers regulation has moved the general/catch-all effective rate to 16% (Cetvel IV); any content citing '10% VAT' without qualification would be citing the base-law default, not the current effective general rate. A VAT registration threshold (if any) was searched for in the primary Law text and NOT found — genuine gap, not confirmed either way (an unverified '35,000 TL' figure circulating elsewhere was explicitly NOT confirmed and should not be used).
Quoted passages (4)
VAT Law Article 28(1) (statutory default rate and Council of Ministers rate-setting power)
Katma değer vergisi genel oranı, vergiye bağlı her bir işlem için yüzde on (%10)'dur. Bakanlar Kurulu, ... bu oranı ... yükseltmeye, ... indirmeye ... yetkilidir.
Translation: “The general VAT rate is 10% for each taxable transaction. The Council of Ministers is empowered to raise or lower this rate [by regulation].”
VAT Law Article 2(1)(A) (scope — only business-activity supplies)
Translation: “VAT attaches to a supply made 'in the course of a commercial, industrial, agricultural or independent professional activity' — a private individual's one-off sale of their own home, outside a business activity, is not among the taxable activities listed.”
VAT Rates Regulation, currently effective (amended through 16.09.2026, in force from 1 Jan 2025) — property-relevant schedule items
Translation: “Cetvel I (0%): investment goods under an incentive certificate; basic foodstuffs; books/newspapers; RENTAL of any immovable property; certain state/Evkaf-title transfers; capital contribution of real estate to a TRNC company for shares. Cetvel II (5%): 'Her türlü taşınmaz mallar ve kapalı alanı 300 metrekareye kadar olan konut' — all immovable property generally, and residences up to 300 sqm enclosed area. Cetvel III (10%): construction contracting and other listed goods/services, and residences of 300 sqm or MORE (item 22). Cetvel IV (16%): the general/residual rate — everything not listed in the other schedules. Cetvel V (20%): tobacco, alcohol, jewellery, luxury vehicles/boats, GSM services, nightclub/bar services.”
VAT Law Article 40(1) (filing) and Article 44 (assessment)
Translation: “VAT returns are monthly, due by the 15th of the month following the tax period; assessment follows within 7 days of filing.”
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src-vat-law-47-1992
Government institutions
- "Foreign Work Permit Procedures — What You Need to Know" (Ministry of Labour and Social Security official FAQ page)
Yabancıların Çalışma İzinleri İşlemleri Hakkında Bilinmesi Gerekenler
Ministry of Labour and Social Security, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full page read: the main FAQ section, the advice-to-workers section, and the document-checklist section for all listed application categories..
Reading note: No visible last-updated date on the page itself, except the self-dated 2016 fee table — a genuine currentness limitation for anything on the page not independently cross-checked against the Regulation.
Editorial note: Read directly by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. This is the Ministry of Labour and Social Security's own official FAQ page — strong evidence of administrative practice (an authority's own explanation of its own process), not merely informational. It corroborates the Regulation's mechanism closely (the Ön İzin requirement, cancellation triggers, employer-specific nature, and 6-month-to-1-year initial duration all match). It reveals administrative-practice detail not found in the Regulation text itself: the employer bears all costs; four distinct conversion routes exist (visitor permit, residence permit, residence permit for those who turned 18 in the TRNC, and property ownership plus a valid visa) that bypass the standard abroad-first Ön İzin process; and Social Insurance and Provident Fund compliance/registration is a checked precondition across every listed application type. One material discrepancy was found: this page states the work-permit extension-application deadline is 3 months (90 days), while the Regulation's own Article 17(5), read directly from a copy consolidated through 17 September 2026, states 40 days. The page's fee schedule is explicitly self-dated "2016 yılı itibariyle" (as of 2016) and was not relied on as current.
Quoted passages (4)
"Çalışma İzni'nin Süresi Ne Kadardır?"
Çalışma İzni en az 6 aylık ve en fazla 1 yıllık süre için düzenlenir. 6 aylık veya 1 yıllık çalışma izni süresinin dolmasından sonra, aynı işyeri-işletme ve meslekte, aynı işverenle çalışmaya devam etmeniz halinde Çalışma İzni'nin yenilenmesi gerekmektedir.
Translation: “The Work Permit is issued for a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of 1 year. After the 6-month or 1-year Work Permit period expires, if you continue working for the same employer at the same workplace/business and in the same profession, the Work Permit must be renewed.”
"Çalışma İznimin Süresi Bitti, Uzatmak (Yenilemek) İçin Ne Yapmalıyım?"
Süresi sona eren çalışma izninin uzatılması için, sürenin bittiği tarihten itibaren en geç 3 ay (90 gün) içinde uzatma başvurusunda bulunulması gerekmektedir.
Translation: “To extend an expired work permit, an extension application must be made at the latest within 3 months (90 days) of the expiry date.”
"Çalışma İzni Harcını Kim Öder?"
Çalışma izni alınması ilgili olarak yapılacak her türlü gider ve harç ödemeleri, İŞVEREN tarafından karşılanır. Bu amaçla yapılan giderler ve işveren ödemeleri için, işverenler tarafından işçinin ücretinden kesinti yapılamaz, işçiden herhangi bir ödeme talebinde bulunulamaz.
Translation: “All costs and fee payments related to obtaining a work permit are borne by the EMPLOYER. Employers may not deduct these costs or employer payments from the worker's wages, and may not request any payment from the worker for this purpose.”
Document checklists (four listed application categories)
ÖNİZİN BAŞVURULARINDA ARANAN BELGELER: ... İşyerinin Sosyal Sigorta, İhtiyat Sandığı ve Vergi Dairesi'nden borcu olmadığını gösteren belgeler ... ZİYARETÇİ İZNİNİN ÇALIŞMA İZNİNE ÇEVİRME İŞLEMLERİ İÇİN ARANAN BELGELER ... OTURMA İZNİNİ ÇALIŞMA İZNİNE ÇEVİRME İŞLEMLERİ İÇİN ARANAN BELGELER ... 18 YAŞINI KKTC'DE TAMAMLAMIŞ ŞAHISLARIN OTURMA İZNİNİN ÇALIŞMA İZNİNE ÇEVRİLMESİ İÇİN GEREKLİ BELGELER ... TAŞINMAZ MALI OLUP HERHANGİ BİR GEÇERLİ VİZEYE SAHİP OLAN ŞAHISLARIN ALACAĞI İZİNLER İÇİN GEREKLİ BELGELER
Translation: “DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR PRELIMINARY PERMIT APPLICATIONS: ... documents showing the workplace has no outstanding debt to Social Insurance, the Provident Fund, and the Tax Office ... DOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO CONVERT A VISITOR PERMIT TO A WORK PERMIT ... DOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO CONVERT A RESIDENCE PERMIT TO A WORK PERMIT ... DOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO CONVERT THE RESIDENCE PERMIT OF PERSONS WHO TURNED 18 IN THE TRNC TO A WORK PERMIT ... DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR PERMITS TO BE OBTAINED BY PERSONS WHO OWN IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AND HOLD ANY VALID VISA”
Used by
- rules: Initial Time-limited Work Permit duration: 6 months to 1 year · Standard work-permit process: preliminary permit required before entry · A Time-limited Work Permit becomes legally invalid when the employment relationship ends · A Time-limited Work Permit is valid only for the named employer, workplace and profession
- claims: The Ministry of Labour and Social Security's own guidance states that all costs and fees connected with obtaining a foreign worker's work permit are borne by the employer, who may not deduct them from the worker's wages or demand payment from the worker.
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src-csgb-yabancicalismaizni-faq - 2026 personal income tax deduction and bracket announcement (TRNC Tax Office)
2026 Yılı Gelir Vergisi Matrah Dilimleri İle Kişisel İndirim Miktarları Yayımlandı
Tax Office, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 18 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. The whole announcement page.
Reading note: Cross-verified against the local Gazette registry (issue 16/2026) in the same session.
Editorial note: Read in full and fetched directly that day. Independently cross-checked against NCR's own local Gazette registry: an internal copy issue 16 is dated 2026-01-28 (exact match) and lists 'Ü(K-I) 132-2026 2026 VERGİLENDİRME DÖNEMİ İÇİN KİŞİSEL İNDİRİM MİKTARLARININ SAPTANMASI' (exact match). The page also links to the full bracket table as a separate PDF, which NCR could not extract as text that day — see the exact-bracket-cutoffs gap noted on q-live-personal-tax-deduction-2026.
Quoted passages (1)
main announcement text
28 Ocak 2026 tarihli ve 16 sayılı Resmi Gazete, EK IV tahtında yayımlanan Ü(K-I) 132-2026 sayılı Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı ile 2026 Vergilendirme Dönemi İçin Kişisel İndirim Miktarı; değiştirilmiş şekliyle 24/1982 sayılı Gelir Vergisi Yasası'nın 12'nci maddesinin (1)'inci fıkrası uyarınca 655,000- TL olarak belirlenmiştir.
Translation: “By Council of Ministers Decision Ü(K-I) 132-2026, published under Annex IV of Official Gazette No. 16 of 28 January 2026, the Personal Deduction Amount for the 2026 Taxation Period has been set at 655,000 TL, under Article 12(1) of Income Tax Law No. 24/1982 as amended.”
Used by
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src-vergi-dairesi-2026-kisisel-indirim - Banking Law of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, No. 62/2017 (as amended/integrated with Law No. 22/2020) — English translation
62/2017 Sayılı Bankacılık Yasası
Central Bank of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026
Reading: Read in full. Full 56-page English translation read and searched..
Reading note: Not cross-checked word-for-word against a Turkish original — flagged as an open item, not a confirmed discrepancy.
Editorial note: Read in full by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026 (56 pages, full text read and searched). This is an English translation hosted on the Central Bank's own site; the document itself does not state whether it is an official or unofficial translation, so wording should be treated as indicative pending comparison with the Turkish original, which has not yet been done. Article 29's identification requirement is notably thin — it does not specify document types or distinguish residents from non-residents, deferring detail to a Central Bank Notification (tebliğ) not yet located. Articles 55-60 (consolidated supervision and cross-border information-sharing for foreign-owned/branch banks) were read but are background only, not specific to foreigner accounts.
Quoted passages (3)
Article 29 ("Identification and Documentation")
Banks shall identify and document the identities of those who make transactions on their own or others' behalf for any services they directly offer or mediate.
Translation: “(Original is in English; this is the Bank's own translation, authority/officiality not independently confirmed.)”
Article 54 ("Supervisory and Auditing Authority")
The supervision and audit activities regarding the implementation of this Law... shall be conducted by the Central Bank.
Translation: “(Original is in English.)”
Article 27 ("Prohibitions Regarding Confidentiality, Broadcasting, and News")
[Bank-secrecy obligation binding anyone who learns a bank's or a customer's secrets, continuing after they leave their post; exceptions where disclosure is required by law or made as a public statement.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text, not a direct quotation of the article's exact wording.”
Used by
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src-banking-law-62-2017 - Conviction of two European citizens by Cypriot Assize Court in regard to fraudulent transactions related with real estate properties in the occupied areas (High Commission of Cyprus in the UK)
High Commission of the Republic of Cyprus in the United Kingdom · Republic of Cyprus · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The 9 May 2025 hearing described in the notes and the one quoted passage.
Editorial note: Refers to a Nicosia Assize Court hearing of 9 May 2025 at which two EU citizens were convicted under Article 303A of the Criminal Code, one for advertising property sales on a website and one for promoting properties on social media; sentences of two and a half years and fifteen months are reported. The page itself is undated.
Quoted passages (1)
“under the laws of the Republic of Cyprus, the use of property registered in the name of another individual constitutes a criminal offence.”
Used by
- claims: On 9 May 2025 the Nicosia Assize Court convicted two European citizens under section 303A of the Criminal Code, one for advertising sales of property in the north on a website and one for promoting such properties on social media, imposing sentences of two and a half years and fifteen months. · Under the laws of the Republic of Cyprus, the use of property registered in the name of another individual constitutes a criminal offence, and the court stated that Cypriot law applies to the entire territory of the country including the areas under Turkish occupation.
- regulatory events: A Republic of Cyprus court convicts two EU citizens for promoting property in the north
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src-roc-high-commission-conviction-2025 - Cyprus Turkish Investment Development Agency website (investor guide and incentives)
Cyprus Turkish Investment Development Agency (YAGA) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The page as observed at access (English version, most recent news items).
Reading note: Minimal: a surface observation, not substantive content extraction.
Editorial note: English version at investnorthcyprus.gov.ct.tr. News items dated May 2026 when accessed.
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src-yaga-site - European Parliament resolution of 11 September 2025 on the detention of EU citizens in the occupied areas of Cyprus
European Parliament · European Union · published 11 September 2025 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The vote count and the substance described in the source notes.
Reading note: No local copy retained.
Editorial note: Adopted 597 votes to 0 with 5 abstentions, according to the legislative observatory summary. Concerns five Greek Cypriot EU citizens detained on 19 July 2025 in the north while visiting property.
Used by
- claims: On 11 September 2025 the European Parliament adopted, by 597 votes to 0 with 5 abstentions, a resolution condemning the detention on 19 July 2025 of five Greek Cypriot EU citizens who were visiting property in the north and calling for their immediate release.
- regulatory events: The European Parliament adopts a resolution on the detention of EU citizens in the north
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src-ep-resolution-2025-09-11 - Immovable Property Commission: homepage statement and application statistics
Immovable Property Commission · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 11 September 2026 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The statistics panel.
Reading note: Source's own notes state the two figures were read directly; not treated as read-full since this is one panel of a wider site.
Editorial note: Figures as displayed on the Commission’s English homepage when accessed. Wording of the statistics paragraph reconstructed from the page; the two figures were read directly.
Quoted passages (2)
Homepage, statistics dated 11 September 2026
“As of 11 September 2026, 8,771 applications have been lodged with the Commission and 3,660 of them have been concluded. The Commission has awarded GBP 680,817,812 to the applicants as compensation.”
Homepage
“The Immovable Property Commission was set up under the Immovable Property Law (No. 67/2005) in accordance with the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Xenides-Arestis v. Turkey, with the purpose to establish an effective domestic remedy for claims relating to abandoned properties in Northern Cyprus.”
Used by
- claims: The Immovable Property Commission describes itself as set up under Law 67/2005 in accordance with the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights in Xenides-Arestis v. Turkey, with the purpose of establishing an effective domestic remedy for claims relating to abandoned properties in Northern Cyprus. · As of 11 September 2026, 8,771 applications had been lodged with the Immovable Property Commission and 3,660 had been concluded, with GBP 680,817,812 awarded as compensation, according to the Commission’s own published figures.
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src-ipc-homepage-2026-09 - Immovable Property Unit (Ministry of Interior) page: applications for purchase of immovable property by foreign nationals
Taşınmaz Mal Birimi
Ministry of Interior, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The one quoted passage on record.
Quoted passages (1)
Yabancı uyruklu kişilerin ülkemizden Taşınmaz Mal satın alımlarında şahsen, vekaleten veya avukatları aracılığıyla başvuru kabul edilmektedir.
Translation: “Applications by foreign nationals to purchase immovable property in our country are accepted in person, by proxy, or through their lawyers.”
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src-icisleri-immovable-property-unit - Income Tax Law No. 24/1982 (Gelir Vergisi Yasası), consolidated text mirrored by the Central Bank of the TRNC
24/1982 Sayılı Gelir Vergisi Yasası
Central Bank of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Articles 4(1)(e)(i), 6(14), 31(1)(b)-(f), 31(6), 32(1)(c), 33(2) located and read for rental-income taxation (Property Leasing domain research) — a full read obtained via vergi.gov.ct.tr's own official .doc, not the Central Bank mirror this record was originally registered against..
Reading note: Confirms rental income is a distinct statutory income category (Art 4(1)(e)(i)) subject to 10% withholding (Art 31(6)), with a genuinely foreigner-relevant mechanism: where the landlord is a non-resident individual with no permanent TRNC representative, the tenant becomes responsible for calculating and remitting the withholding (Art 33(2)). This is a different article from the dividend-withholding rate separately verified at Art 32(1)(c) = 15% — the two should not be conflated.
Editorial note: Read in full by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, closing a previously flagged gap. The legacy .doc file (a Word 97-2003 Composite Document, with no working system-level extractor available in this environment) was successfully read by decoding the raw file bytes as UTF-16LE and extracting printable-character runs directly — a working, repeatable technique for this specific file, not a general-purpose .doc parser; results should be spot-checked against structural markers (paragraph/sub-clause numbers survive as isolated digits/letters in the raw byte stream, e.g. 2.\u0007(1)\u0007..\u0007(2)\u0007..(a)\u0007..(b)\u0007 confirms Article 2's own structure) rather than trusted as a clean rendering. A full companion .txt extraction (125,534 characters) is saved alongside the .doc. This directly confirms the tax-residency test, with an important terminology refinement: the law's own concept is "yerleşmiş" (settled/domiciled), not literally "tax resident", and the test combines two conditions (domicile in the TRNC and more than 6 months' presence), not presence alone. The document's own amendment-history header (at Article 1) lists amending laws through 14/2001; the document's file metadata shows it was last saved 2013-12-18, meaning this specific consolidated copy may not reflect amendments after that point. Currentness for Article 2 specifically was independently re-checked (19 September 2026) by locating and reading every enacted 'Gelir Vergisi (Değişiklik) Yasası' in NCR's Gazette index (2019-2026, the full extent of the indexed archive): Law 14/2019 (Gazette 37, amends Article 6), an amendment in Gazette 88/2024 (amends Article 4(1)(h)), a Law in Gazette 117/2025 (amends Article 4(1)(f)(i)), and Law 25/2026 (Gazette 95, amends Article 52(1), tax brackets) — none of these touch Article 2. No amendment to Article 2 was found in the 2019-2026 window; earlier possible amendments (2001-2019) rely on the document's own header list, not independently re-verified instrument by instrument.
Quoted passages (11)
Article 2(1)
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti sınırları içinde yerleşmiş gerçek kişilerin, bir takvim yılında Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti sınırları içinde ve dışında her türlü kaynaktan elde ettikleri kazanç ve iratların safi tutarı Gelir Vergisine bağlıdır.
Translation: “The net amount of earnings and income of every kind obtained, within a calendar year, both within and outside the borders of the TRNC, by natural persons settled (yerleşmiş) within the borders of the TRNC, is subject to Income Tax.”
Article 2(2)(b)-(c) (the "yerleşmiş"/settled test)
(b) İkametgâhı Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti sınırları içinde olan ve bir vergilendirme dönemi içinde Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde sürekli olarak veya aralıklarla altı aydan fazla oturanlar, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde yerleşmiş sayılırlar. (c) Belli ve geçici bir görev veya iş için Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetine gelen yabancılar, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti sınırları içinde altı aydan fazla kalmış olsalar dahi, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde yerleşmiş sayılmazlar.
Translation: “(b) Those whose domicile (ikametgâh) is within the borders of the TRNC, and who reside in the TRNC — continuously or intermittently — for more than six months within a tax period (vergilendirme dönemi), are considered settled (yerleşmiş) in the TRNC. (c) Foreigners who come to the TRNC for a specific and temporary duty or job are NOT considered settled in the TRNC even if they remain within its borders for more than six months.”
Article 3(1)-(2)
(1) Yabancılar ve Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti sınırları içinde yerleşmiş olmayan gerçek kişiler, sadece Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti sınırları içinde elde ettikleri kazanç ve iratlar üzerinden vergilendirilirler. (2) Başka herhangi bir Yasada aksine kural bulunmasına bakılmaksızın, yabancıların ve Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde yerleşmiş olmayanların bu Yasa ve diğer Vergi Yasalarında öngörülen yükümlülüklerine ilişkin tüm ödevlerini ve Vergi Dairesinin gerekli göreceği teminatı yerine getirmemeleri halinde, kendilerine Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde ikamet etme, çalışma veya kazanç getirici faaliyetlerde bulunmalarına ilgili ve yetkili makamlarca izin verilmez.
Translation: “(1) Foreigners and natural persons not settled within the borders of the TRNC are taxed only on the earnings and income they obtain within the borders of the TRNC. (2) Notwithstanding any contrary rule in any other Law, foreigners and persons not settled in the TRNC who fail to fulfil all their obligations under this Law and other Tax Laws, and any security the Tax Office requires, will not be permitted by the relevant and competent authorities to reside, work, or engage in income-generating activities in the TRNC.”
Article 5(1)-(3) ("Vergilendirme Dönemi" — the tax period)
(1) Gelir Vergisinde vergilendirme dönemi, geçmiş takvim yılıdır. (2) Yükümlülüğün takvim yılı içinde kalkması halinde vergilendirme dönemi, takvim yılı başından yükümlülüğün kalktığı tarihe kadar geçen süreyi kapsar. (3) Kesinti yoluyla ödenen vergilerde istihkak sahipleri, ayrıca yıllık beyanname vermek zorunda değillerse, kesintinin ilgili bulunduğu dönemler vergilendirme dönemi sayılır ve kesilen veya kesilmesi gereken vergiler yıllık verginin yerine geçer.
Translation: “(1) For Income Tax, the tax period is the preceding calendar year. (2) If the liability ends within the calendar year, the tax period covers the period from the start of the calendar year to the date the liability ends. (3) For taxes paid by withholding, where the person entitled is not otherwise required to file an annual return, the periods to which the withholding relates are considered the tax period, and the tax withheld or due to be withheld replaces the annual tax.”
Article 31(6) (rental-income withholding, 10%)
Her türlü taşınmaz mal (döşeli olarak veya tesisat ve demirbaş ile birlikte kiraya verilenler dahil) kiralama ve kullanma bedeli karşılığı avans olarak alınanlar dahil tahakkuk eden brüt gelirin %10 (Yüzde On)'u, mal ve hakların sahipleri veya temsilcileri tarafından… Gelir ve Vergi Dairesine ödenir.
Translation: “10% of the gross income accrued from renting or letting the use of any immovable property (including furnished lettings and lettings with fixtures/equipment), including sums received as an advance against rent, is paid to the Revenue and Tax Office by the owner of the property/right or their representative.”
Article 33(2) (non-resident landlord, tenant becomes responsible for withholding)
Bu Yasanın 31'inci maddesinin (6)'ncı fıkrasında belirtilen kira geliri elde eden gerçek kişilerin ülke dışında yerleşmiş bulunmaları ve Devlet dahilinde sürekli bir temsilcilerinin bulunmaması halinde kirayı ödeyenler yine bu Yasanın 31'inci maddesinde belirtilen esas ve oranlar üzerinden vergiyi hesaplamak ve Daireye yatırmakla sorumludur.
Translation: “Where an individual earning rental income under Article 31(6) is settled outside the country and has no permanent representative within the State, the person paying the rent (the tenant) is responsible for calculating the tax, at the basis and rates set out in Article 31, and remitting it to the Office.”
Article 6(14) (rental-only company dividend treatment)
Translation: “Dividends paid by a TRNC-registered company whose exclusive activity is earning rental income, to TRNC-resident individuals or to similarly-structured TRNC rental-only companies, receive special exempt tax treatment.”
Article 32(1)(c) (dividend withholding, 15%)
Kurumlar ile kazanç dağıtan kooperatif şirketlerinde kar paylarının %15 (Yüzde Onbeş)'i
Translation: “15% of profit shares [is withheld] at corporations and profit-distributing cooperative companies.”
Article 32 (final, non-creditable withholding for non-residents without a TRNC place of business)
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti sınırları içinde yerleşmemiş gerçek kişilerle Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyetinde işyeri veya daimi temsilcisi bulunmayan kurumlar ve kurumlar dışında kalan tüzel kişilere, (1). ve (2).fıkralar uyarınca kesilen vergilerin mahsubu veya iadesi yapılmaz.
Translation: “For natural persons not settled within the TRNC, and for corporations and other legal persons without a place of business or permanent representative in the TRNC, taxes withheld under paragraphs (1) and (2) are NOT creditable or refundable — the withholding is final.”
Article 32(2) (undistributed-profit deemed-distribution withholding, 15%)
Translation: “Undistributed corporate profits (corporate-tax base minus corporate tax paid/payable minus dividends already withheld under 32(1)(c) plus tax-exempt participation income) are themselves withheld at 15% when the corporate tax return is filed, with no separate withholding return needed; if later actually distributed, no further withholding applies (32(3)). This withholding is likewise non-creditable for the recipient. Narrow carve-outs exist for registered cooperatives and certain non-permanent-establishment foreign corporations already taxed finally under Art. 31(1).”
Article 31(1)(a)-(d), (g) (other outbound withholding on payments to foreigners, including foreign corporations)
Translation: “Independent professional-service fees to foreigners without a TRNC place of business: 20%. Construction, repair, installation and general contracting payments to foreigners: 10%. Goods supplied by foreign tender winners: 10%. Royalties/patent/copyright/trademark/know-how/film payments: 10%. Foreign transport/shipping companies' deemed TRNC-source profit: 36% (Council of Ministers may vary 0-50%). All explicitly stated to apply 'yabancılara, yabancı kurumlar dahil' (to foreigners, including foreign corporations), and — per Art. 31(7) — final (non-creditable) for non-residents/entities without a TRNC place of business or permanent representative.”
Used by
- rules: Dividend withholding tax: 15%, final for a non-resident without a TRNC place of business · TRNC Income Tax period is the calendar year · TRNC outbound withholding on payments to foreign contractors, professionals and suppliers · Rental income withholding tax: 10% · Tax non-compliance can be grounds to refuse residence, work, or income-generating permission
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src-income-tax-law-24-1982 - Insurance Services (Regulation and Supervision) Law, No. 60/2010, as amended by 11/2014, 27/2020 and 36/2025
Sigorta Hizmetleri (Düzenleme ve Denetim) Yasası, 60/2010
Insurance Superintendent / Department of Money, Exchange and Development Fund Affairs, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Located and archived the government's own official copy, replacing the mirror as this record's primary url/localCopy..
Reading note: Byte-verified (Content-Length match). The article-level content previously read from the mirror has not been individually re-diffed line-by-line against the new copy — a spot cross-check of Articles 63-64, 67 is recommended before treating the existing reading log as re-verified against the government text specifically.
Editorial note: Read in full by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026 (56 pages, 134,049 extracted characters) from an insurance-sector-hosted mirror (web.kksbm.org), not mevzuat.gov.ct.tr directly. A later pass located and downloaded the Central Legislation Office's own government copy directly (74 pages, 1,032,201 bytes, Content-Length-verified, HTTP 200); this record's url/localCopy now point at that official government source instead of the mirror. Key finding (from the original read, not re-verified against every page of the newer copy): Article 63 confirms the legal mechanism that would make property, earthquake, or any other insurance class compulsory for ordinary buyers — but this is only an enabling power ('may make compulsory.. by Tüzük'); a specific search found no evidence this power has been exercised for property or earthquake insurance specifically — a negative finding, not proof of non-existence. The Schedule confirms Fire/Explosion/Earthquake/Flood/Natural-Disaster and Sickness/Health are each separately regulated, licensable insurance classes under this same Law and the same Insurance Superintendent — there is no separate health-insurance-specific regulator.
Quoted passages (4)
Article 63 ("Zorunlu Sigortalar" — compulsory insurance power)
(1) Bakanlar Kurulu, kamu yararı açısından gerekli gördüğü sigorta sınıflarının yaptırılmasını zorunlu kılabilir. (2) Zorunlu sigorta sınıfları ile ilgili usul ve esaslar Bakanlıkça hazırlanacak Bakanlar Kurulunca onaylanacak ve Resmi Gazete'de yayımlanacak tüzükle belirlenir.
Translation: “(1) The Council of Ministers may make the taking-out of any insurance class it considers necessary in the public interest compulsory. (2) The procedures and principles relating to compulsory insurance classes are determined by a Regulation prepared by the Ministry, approved by the Council of Ministers, and published in the Official Gazette.”
Article 64 (Compulsory Insurance Guarantee Fund)
[Funded by 3% of premiums produced by insurers for compulsory motor insurance, plus subrogation/investment income; pays victims of uninsured/hit-and-run/unlicensed-driver motor incidents, and claims arising when an insurer's licence is cancelled across all classes for financial weakness, before liquidation funds are available.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Article 67 ("Sigorta Tahkim Komisyonu" — Insurance Arbitration Commission)
[A 5-member statutory arbitration body (Ministry representative, Association representative, 2 Association-nominated/Minister-approved law graduates, Police Traffic Director or delegate) that insurers must join and fund; decisions up to 40,000 TL are binding on both parties; must resolve within 2 months (extendable by 1 with the applicant's consent); a complainant must first have gone to the insurer and received a negative response or 15 business days' non-response.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Schedule ("SİGORTA SINIFLARI İÇİN ÖNGÖRÜLEN SERMAYE TUTARLARI" — minimum capital by insurance class)
(A)Yangın 25.000 (B)Patlama 25.000 (C)Deprem 25.000 (D)Sel 25.000 (E)Deprem ve Sel dışındaki doğal afetler 25.000 (F)Nükleer Enerji 10.000 (G)Toprak Kayması 15.000 ... 2. Hastalık/Sağlık 400.000 (A)Hastalık 200.000 (B)Sağlık 200.000
Translation: “(A) Fire 25,000 (B) Explosion 25,000 (C) Earthquake 25,000 (D) Flood 25,000 (E) Natural disasters other than earthquake/flood 25,000 (F) Nuclear Energy 10,000 (G) Landslide 15,000 ... 2. Sickness/Health 400,000 (A) Sickness 200,000 (B) Health 200,000 [minimum paid-up capital, in TL thousands, an insurer needs to be LICENSED for each class — an insurer-capitalisation requirement, not a consumer purchase mandate].”
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- rules: Insurance agencies: founders and shareholders must be TRNC citizens · Insurance and reinsurance companies: no TRNC-citizenship requirement for founders/shareholders · A single Insurance Superintendent regulates all insurance classes; a statutory arbitration route exists below 40,000 TL · No statutory mandate for property or earthquake insurance was found, though the power to create one exists
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src-insurance-services-law-60-2010 - Land Registry and Cadastre Department website
Land Registry and Cadastre Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The page as observed at access (language, most recent news items).
Reading note: Minimal: a surface observation, not substantive content extraction.
Editorial note: Turkish-language only when accessed. Latest news items dated July 2025.
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src-tapu-gov-ct-tr - Ministry of Interior online application portal for property permission (Taşınmaz Mal / Property Permission)
Ministry of Interior, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Located. Identified via a link from another page; not itself visited and read.
Editorial note: Linked from the Ministry of Interior site as "Taşınmaz Mal / Property Permission" under online services.
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src-tmb-online-application - Necessary documents for Permission to Buy Property (Ministry of Interior information sheet)
Taşınmaz Mal Alımı Sırasında Gerekli Evraklar
Ministry of Interior, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The document list, per the one quoted passage and the source notes.
Editorial note: Undated sheet linked from the Immovable Property Unit page. Law 52/2008 (as amended) provides that the document list is set by Ministry circular, so this list may lag the current circular.
Quoted passages (1)
Bilingual list
“1. Letter addressing to Interior Ministry (Flat Purchases Annex 1, Home Purchases Annex 2, Land Purchases Annex 3). 2. Information form (Annex 4, Annex 5). 3. Passport copy. 4. Title Deed copy. 5. Map of the place. 6. Sale contract (if you have). 7. Police report from your country (it must be original). 8. 45.00 TL stamps is required for application made by proxy.”
Used by
- rules: PTP criminal-record certificate: currently must be apostilled and no more than three months old
- claims: The Ministry of Interior’s information sheet on Permission to Purchase lists: a letter to the Ministry (separate forms for a flat, a house or land), an information form, a passport copy, a copy of the title deed, a site plan with the area marked, an original criminal-record certificate from the buyer’s own country, a copy of the sale contract if there is one, and a stamp for applications made by proxy; the letter must state the share of the property being bought.
- guides: What is Permission to Purchase?
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src-icisleri-ptp-required-documents - Official Receiver and Registrar of Companies website (forms and legislation)
Official Receiver and Registrar of Companies, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Located. Identified and registered; no notes or quoted passage recorded.
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src-rkmmd-site - Permanent residence — property purchaser with guaranteed income (Immigration Department page)
Konut Satın Alan ve Garantilenmiş Gelir
Immigration Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The whole visible page (the Permanent Residence Permit Regulation's own short text, Articles 1-14), which itself does not state Law 51/2015's substantive conditions.
Reading note: Read to check whether a separate, genuinely income-conditioned property-linked route exists that could explain the Immigration Department's short-term-permit page content. Law 51/2015 itself was not located or read; this is a bounded, partial reading only.
Editorial note: Fetched and read directly by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, having found the link on the Department's own 'Taşınmaz Mala Bağlı İkamet İzni' page's navigation menu. This reveals a second, entirely distinct legal pathway combining property purchase with an income condition: PERMANENT residence under the Permanent Residence Permit Law No. 51/2015 (a different law from the Aliens and Immigration Law/Fasıl 105, under which the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation and its Article 14(2)(b) sit). This page does not itself state Law 51/2015's Article 5(2) conditions (income figure, duration, etc.) — only that the Department's own Permanent Residence Regulation requires an application under Annex 2 for this route. NCR has NOT independently read Law 51/2015 or its Article 5(2) conditions; this is out of this research's bound (short-term, Article-14 property-linked residence only) and is recorded here only as a possible explanation for why the Department's short-term 'Taşınmaz Mala Bağlı İkamet İzni' page might describe an income condition not found in the current text of Article 14(2)(b)(iv) — the two pathways (short-term under the Regulation vs. permanent under Law 51/2015) may not be cleanly separated in the Department's own published guidance. A dedicated future investigation would be needed to confirm or rule this out.
Quoted passages (1)
Article 3 and Article 5 of the Permanent Residence Permit Regulation (Daimi İkamet İzni Tüzüğü), made under Article 13(1) of the Permanent Residence Permit Law No. 51/2015
Konut Satın Alan ve Garantilenmiş Gelirleri Olan Yabancıların Başvuru Usulü 5. Yasa'nın 5'inci maddesinin (1)'inci fıkrası kapsamında olup da aynı maddenin (2)'nci fıkrasındaki koşulları haiz, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde konut satın almış ve garantilenmiş geliri bulunan yabancılar, bu Tüzüğe ekli EK-2'de yer alan başvuru formu ve formda belirtilen belgeler ile birlikte Daireye başvururlar.
Translation: “Application procedure for foreigners who have purchased a dwelling and have guaranteed income. 5. Foreigners who fall within Article 5(1) of the Law and meet the conditions of Article 5(2) of the same Law, who have purchased a dwelling in the TRNC and have a guaranteed income, apply to the Department together with the application form in Annex 2 of this Regulation and the documents named in that form.”
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src-muhaceret-daimi-ikamet-konut-satin-alan - Quarantine / Pet import requirements (TRNC Veterinary Department)
Karantina
Veterinary Department, TRNC (Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 18 September 2026 · language: tr-en
Reading: Read in full. Full page read directly: legal basis statement, Import Licence (dogs/cats) section, health/vaccination conditions, FAVN test requirement, non-compliance/quarantine/euthanasia section, caged-birds section, other-pets section..
Reading note: Independent re-fetch and re-read, not reliance on an earlier secondary report. No local PDF; raw HTML and extracted plain text saved locally.
Editorial note: Read directly by NCR Editorial, 18 September 2026, to close a re-verification gap in an earlier finding (which had previously rested only on a secondary report). Requested URL http://veteriner.gov.ct.tr/KarantinaQuarantine redirected (200 OK) to http://veteriner.gov.ct.tr/Karantina, the same final page previously described. Every specific factual claim was independently confirmed against this page's own text: the legal basis (Law 5/2017), the Import Licence process (form PİB.01), the FAVN test threshold, the non-compliance/quarantine process, and the euthanasia clause (word for word). This reading also resolved a previously flagged 30-vs-10-TL/day quarantine-fee discrepancy in favour of the primary source's own figure (30 TL/day) and surfaced two details not present in the earlier finding: a 2-month prior-ownership condition, and that non-compliant caged birds face return or euthanasia (not return alone). The page carries no visible "last updated" or version date, so currentness beyond "live and returning this content on 18 September 2026" cannot be independently established from the page itself.
Quoted passages (6)
Legal basis statement
Veteriner hizmetlerine ilişkin kuralları düzenleyen 5/2017 sayılı Veteriner Hizmetleri Yasası, 2 Şubat, 2017 tarihinde resmi gazetede yayımlanarak yürürlüğe girmiştir.
Translation: “The Veterinary Services Law No. 5/2017, which regulates the rules relating to veterinary services, entered into force on publication in the Official Gazette on 2 February 2017.”
FAVN rabies-antibody test requirement
Avrupa Birliğinin onayladığı bir Laboratuvarda yaptırılmalıdır. Kuduza karşı Antikor düzeyi 0.5I.U/ml'ye eşit veya üzerinde olmalıdır.
Translation: “[The FAVN test] must be carried out at a laboratory approved by the European Union. The rabies antibody level must be equal to or greater than 0.5 I.U./ml. (Also stated in English on the same page: "EU recognised blood testing laboratories. Indicating the rabies antibody titre greater or equal to 0.5 I.U./ml.")”
Prior ownership condition
Ülkeye giriş yapacak evcil hayvanların, ithalinden 2 ay önce hayvanın pasaportundaki sahibi tarafından sahiplenilmesi... gerekir.
Translation: “A pet entering the country must have been owned by the person named as its owner in the animal's passport at least 2 months before import.”
Non-compliance / quarantine fee
...sahibi tarafından karantina kuralları yerine getirilmediği takdirde, hayvan Müdür tarafından belirlenen yer ve koşullarda 3 aya kadar karantinaya alınabilir. Karantina ücreti günlük 30 TL'dir.
Translation: “If the owner does not comply with the quarantine rules, the animal may be placed in quarantine for up to 3 months, at a place and under conditions determined by the Director. The quarantine fee is 30 TL per day.”
Euthanasia clause
Geri gönderilmeyen ve sahibi tarafından karantina kuralları yerine getirilmeyen evcil hayvan, insan ve hayvan sağlığını tehdit eden hayvan olarak kabul edilir. Bu hayvana K.K.T.C'ye girdiği tarihten kırk sekiz saat sonra Hayvan Refahı Yasası'nın yirminci maddesinin (2)inci fıkrası (A) bendi kuralları uyarınca ötenazi uygulanır.
Translation: “A pet that is neither returned nor brought into compliance with quarantine rules by its owner is treated as an animal that threatens human and animal health. This animal is euthanised, 48 hours after the date it entered the TRNC, under Article 20(2)(A) of the Animal Welfare Law.”
Caged birds — non-compliance
...ya hemen geldiği ülkeye geri gönderilir veya ötenazi uygulanarak imha edilir.
Translation: “[A non-compliant caged bird] is either returned immediately to its country of origin or is euthanised.”
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src-veteriner-karantina-2026 - Residence permit application process (Immigration Department page)
Başvuru Süreci
Immigration Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: tr-en
Reading: Read in full. Full page, Turkish and English versions both present.
Reading note: Read specifically for Section 5 (administrative practice) of Conflict Investigation 01.
Editorial note: Fetched and read directly by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026, checking for a separate official application checklist or circular that might independently confirm or contradict the Department's 'Taşınmaz Mala Bağlı İkamet İzni' page (src-muhaceret-property-residence). This page contains no separate checklist; instead it states that the Department's own website pages (i.e., pages of the same kind as src-muhaceret-property-residence) ARE the Department's designated, authoritative statement of each permit type's requirements. This raises the evidentiary weight of that page for an earlier investigation's purposes — it is not merely informational filler, but the Department's own declared mechanism for stating current requirements — while not resolving whether its specific income figure is current. The Department's linked 'Formlar' (Forms) and 'Genelge' (Circular) pages were also checked the same day and found to be empty placeholder pages with no usable content (not separately registered as sources, since they contain no substantive text to cite).
Quoted passages (1)
Closing paragraph
İkamet izninin her bir türü için gerekli olan bilgi ve belgeler Daire tarafından tespit edilip kurumsal internet sitesinde https://icisleri.gov.ct.tr/ yayınlanır.
Translation: “The information and documents required for each type of residence permit are determined by the Department and published on its official website.”
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src-muhaceret-ikamet-basvuru-sureci - Residence permit tied to immovable property (Immigration Department page)
Taşınmaz Mala Bağlı İkamet İzni
Immigration Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 18 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. The whole page, Turkish and English versions both present on the same page.
Reading note: Connection succeeded this time. Full text saved locally. Compared directly against src-mevzuat-residence-regulation-2026's Article 14(2)(b) — see the resulting research candidate for the income-condition discrepancy found.
Editorial note: Located via search on 14 September 2026; connection was refused then. Re-attempted 18 September 2026 and the page now loads (HTTP 200) — the earlier refusal appears to have been transient, not a permanent access block. Read in full: states foreign property owners get a 1-year-renewable permit for the first 3 years then 2-year-renewable, and that an applicant with title deed registered in their own name needs income of at least one minimum wage/month. This income condition appears to conflict with the regulation's own Article 14(2)(b)(iv), which states no income condition applies once title is registered — see a related finding raised against this. Not yet independently confirmed which is currently operative in practice.
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src-muhaceret-property-residence - Visa practice and travel information (TRNC Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Vize Uygulaması
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Acquired. The entry-point page and its redirect history.
Reading note: Source's own notes: nationality-specific rules on linked pages are explicitly "not yet read". Archived copy exists (archivedUrl); no local text copy.
Editorial note: Entry point to visa regulations and an eVisa portal. Nationality-specific rules sit on linked pages not yet read. Since 14 September 2026 the live address redirects to the ministry home page; the archived copy of 25 January 2026 is linked until the ministry publishes a replacement page.
Archived copy (Internet Archive)
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src-mfa-visa-information
Court decisions
- "Life in the TRNC for Foreigners" — official FAQ, Public Information Office (under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Public Information Office — Life in the TRNC for Foreigners
Ministry of Interior, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026
Reading: Read in full. Full FAQ page read (fetched raw and stripped of HTML, not just summarised)..
Reading note: Official guidance tier, not legislation.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. This is official administrative guidance (a government FAQ page), not legislation text — it ties foreign-licence validity to an immigration officer's approval stamp at entry rather than stating a fixed day-count specific to driving. The same page ties general visitor stays to a 90-day cap by the immigration officer, with extensions via Police Headquarters Immigration beyond that — this is the official confirmation of the widely cited general '90 days' figure, but the page applies it to general visitor stay, not specifically to driving. Assigned to trnc-ministry-of-interior as the closest existing NCR authority record for the Public Information Office's parent Ministry; a dedicated PIO authority record has not yet been created.
Quoted passages (2)
"Can foreigners use motor vehicles on their touristic trip to the TRNC?"
Foreigners can use their motor vehicles for traveling in the TRNC with the condition of having a valid passport and having the vehicle registered in their name.
Translation: “(Original is in English.)”
"Is a Driving Licence that belongs to foreign countries valid in the TRNC?"
Foreigners who come to Cyprus as a tourist, can use their motor vehicles with their valid driving licence which is approved by the TRNC Immigration Police Officer at the port of entry when they entered the TRNC. However, the people who enter the TRNC other than tourism (with the aim of working, education etc.) have to apply to the TRNC authorities to get a TRNC driving licence by presenting their own driving licence.
Translation: “(Original is in English.)”
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src-pio-foreigners-life-faq - Apostolides v Orams and another [2010] EWCA Civ 9, Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 19 January 2010
Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division) · United Kingdom · published 19 January 2010 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The holding described in the notes and the one quoted passage.
Editorial note: The Court of Appeal allowed Mr Apostolides’ appeal and reinstated the orders registering the Cypriot judgments for enforcement in England, following the CJEU’s ruling in Case C-420/07. Read on the UK National Archives Find Case Law service.
Quoted passages (1)
Paragraph 94
“I would allow this appeal and reinstate the Orders of Master Eyre.”
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src-ewca-apostolides-orams-2010 - Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 28 April 2009, Meletis Apostolides v David Charles Orams and Linda Elizabeth Orams, Case C-420/07
Court of Justice of the European Union · Court of Justice of the EU · published 28 April 2009 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The ruling as summarised in the source notes (recognition and enforcement under Regulation (EC) No 44/2001).
Reading note: No local copy retained; read directly at the time of access.
Editorial note: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal (England and Wales) on recognition and enforcement under Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of judgments of the courts of the Republic of Cyprus concerning land in the north.
Used by
- claims: In Apostolides v Orams (Case C-420/07, 28 April 2009) the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the suspension of EU law in the areas of Cyprus outside the government’s effective control does not preclude the recognition and enforcement in another member state, under Regulation 44/2001, of a judgment of a Republic of Cyprus court concerning land situated in those areas. · On 19 January 2010 the Court of Appeal of England and Wales allowed Mr Apostolides’ appeal and reinstated the orders registering the Cypriot judgments against Mr and Mrs Orams for enforcement in England.
- regulatory events: The Court of Justice holds that Republic of Cyprus judgments on northern property must be recognised across the EU
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src-cjeu-apostolides-orams-2009 - Ministry of Health, TRNC — Pharmaceutical and Pharmacy Department (İlaç ve Eczacılık Dairesi) official page
Sağlık Bakanlığı — Bakanlığımıza Bağlı Daireler — İlaç ve Eczacılık Dairesi
Ministry of Health, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Full page body text read..
Reading note: The companion Hospital Institutions Department and Hospitals pages were also read the same session to check for an emergency-care-obligation statement; none was found — see cand candidate uncertainty notes.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026 (bounded to real remaining gaps: pharmacy/prescription mechanics). This is Ministry-published administrative guidance describing how the public pharmaceutical-supply system operates in practice (a three-tier medicine list, a central General Pharmacy Depot, prescription-approval process for off-list medicines) — it is not legislation text, and does not itself establish a foreigner's or uninsured person's specific entitlement or cost to use this system (that would require reading the underlying Cap 254 Pharmacy and Poisons Law, not attempted here, and the Social Security Law's own Article 76 co-payment provisions, already separately encoded). Official administrative guidance, not primary legislation.
Quoted passages (2)
Department page body text
İlaç ve Eczacılık Dairesi, tüm sağlık servislerinde kullanılacak olan ilaç, laboratuvar malzemesi, tıbbi malzeme, anjio, dişçilik ve hemodiyaliz malzemelerinin temininden sorumludur... Temin edilen ilaç ve malzemeler, Genel Ecza Deposu'ndan hastahane ve sağlık ocaklarına talep karşılığında sevk edilmektedir. Ayrıca liste harici ilaçlar da Müdürlükte reçete onaylanmasını müteakip, hastalar tarafından Genel Ecza Deposu'ndan alınmaktadır... Halen sağlık servislerimizde kullanılan ilaç listeleri üçe ayrılmış olup, şu şekilde düzenlenmiştir: Liste (1) A: Poliklinik hastalarına yazılacak türler, Liste (1) B: Genel Ecza Deposu'ndan onaylı verilecek türler, Liste (2): Servislerde yatılı hastalar için kullanılacak türler.
Translation: “The Pharmaceutical and Pharmacy Department is responsible for procuring the medicines, laboratory supplies, medical supplies, angiography, dental and haemodialysis materials used across all health services... Procured medicines and supplies are dispatched from the General Pharmacy Depot to hospitals and health centres on request. Off-list medicines are also collected by patients from the General Pharmacy Depot, following prescription approval by the Directorate... The medicine lists currently used in our health services are divided into three: List (1)A: types prescribable to outpatient/polyclinic patients; List (1)B: types dispensed with approval from the General Pharmacy Depot; List (2): types used for hospitalised (inpatient) patients.”
Department page — legal basis list
İlaç ve Eczacılık ile ilgili çeşitli yasa ve tüzükler: Fasıl 254 Eczacılık ve Zehirler Yasası, Sağlık Kurumları Ücretler Tarifesi Tüzüğü, İlaç Üretimi, Ruhsatı ve Tescili ile ilgili Tüzük, Adli Eczacılık Tüzüğü.
Translation: “Various laws and regulations relating to Pharmacy and Medicines: Cap 254 Pharmacy and Poisons Law, Health Institutions Fee Tariff Regulation, the Regulation on Drug Manufacturing, Licensing and Registration, the Forensic Pharmacy Regulation.”
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src-saglik-ilac-eczacilik-dairesi - Savings Deposit Insurance and Financial Stability Fund Law, No. 32/2009, as amended/consolidated by Law No. 61/2023
Tasarruf Mevduatı Sigortası ve Finansal İstikrar Fonu Yasası, 32/2009 (61/2023 ile değiştirilmiş ve birleştirilmiş şekliyle)
Savings Deposit Insurance and Financial Stability Fund, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. Consolidated 2023 text read via degraded OCR-like text extraction from a scanned source PDF; searched specifically for a '100,000' figure (not found) and for 'yabancı' (not found anywhere in the document)..
Reading note: Document integrity caveat: scanned source, not born-digital — see notes field.
Editorial note: Read in full by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. Lower-confidence source: the Fund's own hosted PDF is a scanned Official Gazette photocopy (printer metadata shows 'VersaLink C7025'), not a born-digital document; the extracted text layer had no spaces between words, reducing transcription confidence — the quotes above were reconstructed from that degraded extraction and should be treated with appropriate caution pending a cleaner copy or direct visual confirmation. A claimed 'EUR 100,000 for fund deposit accounts' coverage figure, found in secondary/AI-synthesised material, does not appear anywhere in this text as read, and is flagged as unverified and likely inaccurate. The word 'yabancı' (foreign) does not appear anywhere in this Law; the 'real person' savings-deposit definition carries no nationality or residency qualifier, which supports (by inference only, not an explicit confirming statement) that foreign depositors' accounts are covered on the same footing as citizens'. A transitional provision (Geçici Madde 4) excludes bank general managers, deputy general managers, staff and their spouses or children from coverage at their own bank only where a court found them liable for that bank's insolvency through unlawful decisions — unrelated to nationality.
Quoted passages (3)
Article 2 (definitions, "Tasarruf Mevduatı")
...gerçek kişiler tarafından bu ad altında açtırılan, ticari işlemlere konu olmayan ve... yasa ile oluşturulan ve/veya Bakanlar Kurulu tarafından hayır kurumu olarak ilan edilen hayır kurumlarına ve fonlara ait mevduatı anlatır.
Translation: “"Savings deposit" means deposits opened under this heading by real (natural) persons, not subject to commercial transactions, plus deposits of charitable institutions/funds created by law or declared charitable by the Council of Ministers.”
Article 4 ("Kapsam"/Scope) — mandatory insurance
[Banks operating under the TRNC Banking Law must insure the savings deposits held with them under this Law — mandatory, sector-wide.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text; no depositor-nationality carve-out was found.”
Coverage floor provision
Merkez Bankası 01.01.2004 tarihinden itibaren ve her hesap için Euro 20.000.-'dan az olmamak üzere Fon kapsamındaki mevduat oranlarını tespit edebilir.
Translation: “From 1 January 2004, the Central Bank may set the insured-deposit rates under the Fund, provided this is not less than EUR 20,000 per account.”
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src-deposit-insurance-law-32-2009 - TRNC Immigration Department page and implementing Regulation on permanent residence for children born in the TRNC or arriving before majority, under the Permanent Residence Permit Law No. 51/2015, Article 7
KKTC'de Doğan veya Reşit Olmadan Önce KKTC'ye Gelen Yabancıların Başvuru Usulü (Daimi İkamet İzni Tüzüğü, Madde 13(1))
Ministry of Interior, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The Immigration Department's own page on this specific application track, and its Annex 4 application form, read in full via curl (WebFetch itself failed with a connection error)..
Reading note: Law 51/2015's own full text, including Article 7's substantive conditions, was not located despite four separate attempts.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. A genuinely new structural finding: the question of a TRNC-born (or under-18-arrived) foreign child's own long-term status is not an Article-16 family-residence-permit matter — it lives in a wholly separate law, the Permanent Residence Permit Law No. 51/2015, Article 7. The application form itself (Annex 4, read in full) asks the applicant's current TRNC status (student/residence/work/business permit) and the parent's TRNC status, and requires: ID/passport, population-registry extract or (third-country nationals) birth certificate, parent's ID/passport copy, student certificate if applicable, entry-exit movement record, police-clearance certificates from both the TRNC and the home country, a residence certificate, and a communicable-disease-free health report from a State hospital. Fee: 70 TL per permit copy. A critical gap: Article 7(1)-(5)'s own substantive eligibility conditions (how many years, whose status must be what) have not been recovered despite four separate search/fetch attempts against Law 51/2015's full text — genuinely unlocated, not just unread. An AI search-engine overview volunteered an enactment date ('2 November 2015') that could not be cross-verified and was not relied on. Also found on the same page: Article 5 of Law 51/2015 covers permanent residence via property purchase plus guaranteed income, and Article 6 covers marriage-based permanent residence — flagged for a human editor to check whether these overlap with or duplicate NCR's existing property-linked-residence and marriage-residence research (which concerns short-term residence under the separate Residence Permits and Visas Regulation, not this permanent-residence law) — not confirmed either way.
Quoted passages (1)
Permanent Residence Permit Regulation, Article 13(1)
Yasa'nın 7'nci maddesi kapsamında olup da aynı maddenin (1)'inci, (2)'nci, (3)'üncü, (4)'üncü ve (5)'inci fıkrasındaki koşulları haiz olan Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde doğmuş veya reşit olmadan önce Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'ne gelmiş yabancılar, bu Tüzüğe ekli EK-4'de yer alan başvuru formu ve formda belirtilen belgeler ile birlikte Daireye başvururlar.
Translation: “Foreigners who fall under Article 7 of the Law and meet the conditions in its paragraphs (1)-(5), having been born in the TRNC or having arrived in the TRNC before reaching the age of majority, apply to the Department with the application form in Annex 4 of this Regulation and the documents specified in the form.”
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src-permanent-residence-tuzuk-trnc-born-children
European Court of Human Rights
- Cyprus v. Turkey [GC], application no. 25781/94, judgment of 10 May 2001
European Court of Human Rights · European Court of Human Rights · published 10 May 2001 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Reading note: No evidence of reading beyond text extraction.
Used by
- claims: In the inter-state case Cyprus v. Turkey (Grand Chamber, 2001) the Court held, by sixteen votes to one, that there had been a continuing violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 because Greek Cypriot owners of property in northern Cyprus were being denied access to and control, use and enjoyment of their property, and any compensation for the interference with their property rights.
- regulatory events: The European Court finds a continuing violation of displaced owners’ property rights
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src-echr-cyprus-v-turkey-2001 - Demopoulos and Others v. Turkey (dec.) [GC], applications nos. 46113/99, 3843/02, 13751/02, 13466/03, 10200/04, 14163/04, 19993/04 and 21819/04, decision of 1 March 2010
European Court of Human Rights · European Court of Human Rights · published 1 March 2010 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The six passages quoted on record.
Reading note: Quotes are evidence of reading those passages, not of a full read of the decision.
Quoted passages (6)
Paragraph 103
“For the purposes of Article 35 § 1 of the Convention, remedies available in the “TRNC”, in particular, the IPC procedure, may be regarded as “domestic remedies” of the respondent State.”
Paragraph 112
“This is not to say that the applicants in these cases have lost their ownership in any formal sense; the Court would eschew any notion that military occupation should be regarded as a form of adverse possession by which title can be legally transferred to the invading power.”
Paragraph 116
“It cannot agree that the respondent State should be prohibited from taking into account other considerations, in particular the position of third parties.”
Paragraph 127
“The Court finds that Law no. 67/2005 provides an accessible and effective framework of redress in respect of complaints about interference with the property owned by Greek Cypriots.”
Paragraph 128
“this decision is not to be interpreted as requiring that applicants make use of the IPC. They may choose not to do so and await a political solution.”
Paragraph 96
“this conclusion does not in any way put in doubt the view adopted by the international community regarding the establishment of the “TRNC” or the fact that the government of the Republic of Cyprus remains the sole legitimate government of Cyprus”
Used by
- claims: The Court found that Law 67/2005 provides an accessible and effective framework of redress for complaints about interference with property owned by Greek Cypriots, and rejected the applicants’ property complaints for non-exhaustion of domestic remedies. · The Court noted that the Immovable Property Commission is made up of five to seven members, two of whom are independent international members, that persons who occupy Greek Cypriot property are expressly excluded, and that appeal lies to the TRNC High Administrative Court. · In Demopoulos and Others v. Turkey (Grand Chamber decision, 1 March 2010) the Court held that, for the purposes of Article 35 § 1 of the Convention, remedies available in the TRNC, in particular the Immovable Property Commission procedure under Law 67/2005, may be regarded as domestic remedies of Turkey that applicants must normally exhaust before applying to the Court. · The Court stressed that its decision is not to be interpreted as requiring applicants to make use of the Immovable Property Commission; they may choose not to do so and await a political solution. · The Court stated that this did not mean the applicants had lost their ownership in any formal sense, and that it would eschew any notion that military occupation should be regarded as a form of adverse possession by which title can be legally transferred to the invading power. · The Court reiterated that recognising TRNC remedies does not put in doubt the view adopted by the international community regarding the establishment of the TRNC or the fact that the government of the Republic of Cyprus remains the sole legitimate government of Cyprus. · The Court held that it could not agree that Turkey should be prohibited from taking into account other considerations, in particular the position of third parties, and that it would be arbitrary to impose an obligation to effect restitution in all cases some thirty-five years after the owners left.
- regulatory events: The European Court treats the Immovable Property Commission as a remedy to be used first
- conflicts: Who owns property in the north that was registered to a Greek Cypriot before 1974?
- guides: Property disputes, the European Court of Human Rights and the Immovable Property Commission
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src-echr-demopoulos-2010 - KIB-TEK's own official FAQ pages — new electricity subscription and tenant transfer
KIB-TEK — Yeni Abonelik / Kiracı Devri
Turkish Cypriot Electricity Authority (KIB-TEK) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Both FAQ pages (new subscription; tenant transfer) read in full via raw HTML..
Reading note: Provider practice, not legislation. No deposit amount found.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. This is provider-specific administrative practice (KIB-TEK's own page), not legislation — it should never be presented as 'TRNC law requires foreigners to pay triple deposit.' A genuinely strong, exactly quoted, decision-relevant finding for a foreign tenant specifically: non-citizens need a TRNC-citizen guarantor or must pay 3x the deposit. No deposit amount (a TL figure) was found on this or any other page reached. Read via direct raw-HTML fetch (not summarised), so the exact quotes above are considered reliable as to wording, though the page carries no visible revision date.
Quoted passages (2)
New subscription (owner) requirements
Ev, Daire veya İş yerinizin size ait olduğunu gösteren bir belge / Elektriği alacak olan kişinin Kimlik Kartı ve Kimlik Kartı fotokopisi / Elektrik Kurumu Veznelerine yatırılıacak Depozit dekontu / Bu belgelerle birlikte Elektrik Kurumuna şahsen müracaat etmeniz gerekmektedir.
Translation: “A document proving the home/flat/workplace is yours; the applicant's ID Card and a photocopy of it; a deposit receipt paid at KIB-TEK's cashier; you must apply to the Electricity Authority in person with these documents.”
Tenant transfer requirements
KKTC Gelir ve Vergi Dairesi tarafından mühürlenmiş Kira Sözleşmesi / Kiracının Kimlik Kartı ve Kimlik Kartı fotokopisi / Elektrik Kurumu Veznelerine yatırılıacak Depozit dekontu / K.K.T.C. vatandaşı olmayanlar, bir K.K.T.C. vatandaşını kefil olarak getirmeleri gerekmektedir, kefil bulunamıyorsa Depozit miktarının 3 katını ödemelidirler. Bu belgelerle birlikte Elektrik Kurumuna kiracının şahsen müracaat etmesi gerekmektedir.
Translation: “A lease agreement stamped by the TRNC Tax and Revenue Department; the tenant's ID Card and a photocopy of it; a deposit receipt paid at KIB-TEK's cashier; non-TRNC-citizens must bring a TRNC citizen as guarantor, or pay 3x the deposit amount if no guarantor is available. The tenant must apply to the Electricity Authority in person with these documents.”
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src-kibtek-account-opening-pages - Loizidou v. Turkey (merits), application no. 15318/89, judgment of 18 December 1996
European Court of Human Rights · European Court of Human Rights · published 18 December 1996 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The two passages quoted on record.
Quoted passages (2)
Operative provisions
“Holds by eleven votes to six that the denial of access to the applicant’s property and consequent loss of control thereof is imputable to Turkey; Holds by eleven votes to six that there has been a breach of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1.”
Paragraph 64
“the applicant ... must be regarded to have remained the legal owner of the land”
Used by
- claims: The Court held, by eleven votes to six, that the denial of access to the applicant’s property and the consequent loss of control over it were imputable to Turkey and that there had been a breach of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property). · In Loizidou v. Turkey (1996) the European Court of Human Rights held that the applicant, a Greek Cypriot displaced from Kyrenia in 1974, must be regarded as having remained the legal owner of her land, declining to attribute legal validity for Convention purposes to Article 159 of the TRNC Constitution which purported to expropriate it.
- regulatory events: The European Court holds that a displaced owner remains the legal owner
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src-echr-loizidou-1996 - Property-Based Residence Permit (Taşınmaz Mala Bağlı İkamet İzni) — official guidance page
Taşınmaz Mala Bağlı İkamet İzni
Immigration Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full.
Editorial note: Fetched directly by NCR Editorial — WebFetch's TLS handshake failed on this http-only government server, so plain curl was used instead (a recurring, documented tooling quirk with certain .ct.tr hosts, not a general site outage). OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDANCE, not primary legislative text — the page does not cite the underlying statute/regulation number establishing this criterion. Read in full. Other criteria stated on the same page: co-owned title deeds block a second co-owner's short-term permit application on the same dwelling; if bought on instalment, at least 1/3 of the price must be paid plus a pending Council-of-Ministers acquisition-permission application; if titled, income must be at least 3x minimum wage (or instalment + at least 1x minimum wage during the payment period). KEY FINDING: this specific residence-permit route requires the property to actually be used for the applicant's own habitation — it does NOT, on its own text, address whether an owner may separately rent out the property to someone else (a different question from whether renting disqualifies this specific residence-permit route). Nothing on this page suggests a general prohibition on foreign owners renting out property they own.
Quoted passages (1)
Property-based residence permit eligibility criteria
K.K.T.C'de ikamete uygun bir konutunun olması ve bu amaçla kullanılması gerekir.
Translation: “[The applicant] must have a residence suitable for habitation in the TRNC, and it must be used for that [residential] purpose.”
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src-muhaceret-property-residence-permit-page - TRNC Traffic Department official driving-licence application/renewal form (Form Tr.7T)
Motorlu Taşıt Aracı Sürüş Ehliyeti veya Öğrenci Ehliyeti için Dilekçe (Form Tr.7T)
Traffic Department, TRNC · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 19 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full. Full form read..
Reading note: No visible revision date on the form itself.
Editorial note: Read by NCR Editorial, 19 September 2026. This is the Traffic Department's own official form (hosted on the Tax Department's site), so it is treated as an official form/administrative document rather than legislation text. It cites its own legal basis as 'Articles 25(3), 29(1) and 29(3) of the 1974 driving-licence Tüzük', confirming that Tüzük exists and has at least these article numbers, though the Tüzük's own text has not yet been located or read. It confirms a genuine three-tier document system for exchanging a foreign licence (TC / EU / other-country), each with materially different requirements. The form carries no visible revision date, so its currentness cannot be independently confirmed.
Quoted passages (4)
Renewal document list
KKTC vatandaşları için Kimlik Kartı / Yabancı uyruklular için geçerli muhacereti olan pasaport
Translation: “For TRNC citizens: ID Card. For foreign nationals: a passport bearing valid immigration [status].”
Foreign-licence exchange, TC (Turkish Republic) licence holders
[Passport/ID with valid immigration status; original + copy of current licence; 2 photos; plus a 'TC Lefkoşa Büyükelçiliği'nden TC Sürüş Ehliyeti onayı' — an approval of the TC licence from the Turkish Embassy in Lefkoşa.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Foreign-licence exchange, EU-country licence holders
[Passport with valid immigration status; original + copy of current licence; 2 photos — no embassy-approval step, no translation requirement shown.]
Translation: “Paraphrased by NCR Editorial from the read text.”
Foreign-licence exchange, other-country licence holders
Sürüş Ehliyetinin tam tercümesini gösteren KKTC Dışişleri Bakanlığından onaylı sürüş ehliyeti tercümesi
Translation: “A full translation of the driving licence, approved by the TRNC Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
Used by
- rules: Exchanging a foreign driving licence: three document tiers by licence origin
- claims: The Traffic Department's own official application/renewal form lists a passport bearing valid immigration status as the required document for foreign nationals for every licence category, including renewal, with no mention of a Muhtar's-letter alternative anywhere on the form. This materially weakens, though does not conclusively disprove, a previously unverified forum claim that a Muhtar's letter can substitute for an active residence permit when renewing a driving licence.
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src-driving-licence-form-tr7t - Xenides-Arestis v. Turkey, application no. 46347/99, judgment of 22 December 2005
European Court of Human Rights · European Court of Human Rights · published 22 December 2005 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Used by
- claims: In Xenides-Arestis v. Turkey (2005) the Court found violations of Article 8 and of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 and held unanimously that Turkey must introduce, within three months, a remedy securing effective protection of those rights for the applicant and for all similar pending applications.
- regulatory events: The European Court requires Turkey to introduce an effective remedy
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src-echr-xenides-arestis-2005 - YAGA Investor FAQ (Sıkça Sorulan Sorular)
YAGA - SIKÇA SORULAN SORULAR
Cyprus Turkish Investment Development Agency (YAGA) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full.
Editorial note: Read in full (8 pages, 30 Q&As) by NCR Editorial. This is official administrative guidance from the government's own investor-facilitation agency, not legislation — and this reading specifically found one clear internal error where this official document appears to misstate the primary Companies Law (Q17 vs Fasıl 113 Art. 29(1)(a)), exactly the kind of official-guidance-vs-actual-statute discrepancy NCR should flag rather than either silently adopt or silently correct. The document itself is version-stamped 2021-06-01 — over 5 years old as of this reading — so any fee/threshold figure it states should be treated as potentially stale pending re-verification. This URL was found returning HTTP 404 at one point; a fresh direct check afterward found it live again (HTTP 200, Content-Length 532446, byte-verified) — likely a transient server issue, not a dead link. A local copy has been archived as a resilience measure regardless.
Quoted passages (5)
Q2 (sector-specific 51% TRNC-citizen ownership claim)
Translation: “Foreign investors wishing to operate in the construction and/or tourism-agency sectors face conditions, including that 51% of company shares must be held by TRNC citizens. No specific statute or tüzük is cited on the page for this figure.”
Q17 (private company share-transfer claim — CONTRADICTS the primary Companies Law text)
Translation: “States that local private companies 'cannot impose restrictions on share transfer' — this directly CONTRADICTS Companies Law Fasıl 113 Article 29(1)(a), which requires a private company's articles to RESTRICT share transfer as one of its three defining features. Flagged as an apparent drafting/transcription error in YAGA's own official document, not a change in the law.”
Q18 (minimum capital for companies with foreign shareholding)
Translation: “States a minimum capital requirement of approximately EUR 50,000 (TL equivalent) for companies with foreign shareholding participation — this could not be reconciled with the Companies Law's own flat 15,000 TL statutory minimum (Art. 14(2)); it may reflect a Council-of-Ministers decision under Art. 14(3)'s 'supervised sector' power, or administrative practice, neither independently located.”
Q20 (International Business Company repatriation claims)
Translation: “States IBCs 'may freely transfer abroad the earnings and resources they earn and bring in from abroad' and describes them as outside the scope of the Income Tax Law, Currency and Exchange Law and ordinary Corporate Tax — broadly consistent with, though not word-for-word identical to, the primary IBC Law 38/2005 text independently read (src-ibc-law-38-2005.json).”
Q28 (minimum investment 'own equity' ratios by region/sector)
Translation: “Describes Council of Ministers Decision No. H(K-I)482-2017 (23 February 2017) setting minimum 'own equity' (öz kaynak) ratios: 30% for Priority Region I, 40% for Region II, 10% for renewable energy (treated as Region I regardless of location), 20% for logistics (treated as Region II regardless of location). Decision itself not independently located or read; continued validity as of 2026 not confirmed.”
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src-yaga-investor-faq
Foreign-government guidance
- Cyprus: buying property (GOV.UK guidance)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, United Kingdom · United Kingdom · published 27 November 2019 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The four passages quoted on record and the publish/update dates in the notes.
Editorial note: First published 25 March 2013; last updated 27 November 2019 according to the page. The guidance predates the 2024 and later changes in Northern Cyprus law.
Quoted passages (4)
Section on the north of Cyprus
“The ownership of many properties is disputed in the north of Cyprus, with thousands of claims to ownership from people displaced in 1974. Purchase of these properties could have serious financial and legal implications.”
Section on the north of Cyprus
“Purchasers could face legal proceedings in the courts of the Republic of Cyprus, as well as attempts to enforce judgments from these courts elsewhere in the EU, including the UK.”
Section on mortgages
“It is common practice for developers to take out mortgages on land or property. If you sign a contract with a developer and there is already a mortgage, loan or claim on the property, then you are likely to become liable for that mortgage should the builder, developer or landowner declare bankruptcy.”
General advice
“With all property purchases, we strongly recommend that you seek your own independent legal advice.”
Used by
- claims: It is common practice for developers to take out mortgages on land or property, and a buyer who signs a contract with a developer where there is already a mortgage, loan or claim on the property is likely to become liable for that mortgage should the builder, developer or landowner declare bankruptcy. · Purchasers of such property could face legal proceedings in the courts of the Republic of Cyprus, as well as attempts to enforce judgments from those courts elsewhere in the EU, including the UK. · The UK government’s "Cyprus: buying property" guidance was first published on 25 March 2013 and last updated on 27 November 2019, before the 2024 amendment and the 2025–2026 decrees changed the rules in the north. · For all property purchases in Cyprus the UK government strongly recommends seeking one’s own independent legal advice. · The ownership of many properties is disputed in the north of Cyprus, with thousands of claims to ownership from people displaced in 1974, and purchase of these properties could have serious financial and legal implications.
- conflicts: Who owns property in the north that was registered to a Greek Cypriot before 1974?
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src-govuk-cyprus-buying-property
Professional and legal sources
- 2024 – New rules on purchasing immovable property for foreigners (TRNC) (Erginel Law)
Erginel Law, Advocates and Legal Consultants · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Located. Identified and registered; no notes or quoted passage recorded.
Used by
- regulatory events: The rules for foreign buyers are rewritten by amendment law
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src-erginel-2024-new-rules - Acquisition and Loss of Statutory and Testamentary Inheritance in TRNC Law
KKTC Hukuku'nda Yasal ve İradi Mirasçılığın Kazanılması ve Kaybedilmesi
Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law Journal · Türkiye · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full.
Editorial note: Peer-reviewed law journal article (Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. 20 No. 1, 2018, pp. 265-291) read in full by NCR Editorial as part of TRNC succession-law research. Extensively quotes and cites the Vasiyetnameler ve Veraset Yasası (Wills and Succession Law, in force since 1946, sourced from the 1837 English Wills Act) and Terekelerin İdaresi Yasası (Administration of Estates Law, in force since 1954) by article number, plus TRNC Yargıtay/Constitutional Court decisions with case numbers. IMPORTANT LIMITATION: this is a PROFESSIONAL INTERPRETATION source quoting statute text at second hand — NCR has not independently located or read the primary VVY/TİY statute texts themselves (two independent bounded search attempts failed to locate them on mevzuat.gov.ct.tr; a full-text account-gated search on mahkemeler.net's legislation database was not attempted). Article numbers and specific figures sourced from this article should be treated as professionally-interpreted, not primary-verified, until the underlying statutes are independently read.
Quoted passages (3)
Citing Terekelerin İdaresi Yasası (Administration of Estates Law) Art. 25, 31(II)
Translation: “On death, the estate vests first in a personal representative (an executor under a will, or a court-appointed administrator on intestacy) from the grant of probate or letters of administration — TRNC follows the English 'administration' model, not automatic universal succession directly into named heirs.”
Citing Taşınmaz Mal Yasası Art. 40(II)
Translation: “For Land Registry purposes, the executor or administrator is deemed the registered owner of the deceased's registered immovable property until the estate is distributed.”
Citing Vasiyetnameler ve Veraset Yasası (VVY) Art. 17-18 (disqualification from inheritance)
Translation: “A person is disqualified from inheriting (loses forced-heir/statutory-heir status) only on statutorily enumerated grounds: intentionally and unlawfully killing or attempting to kill the person they would inherit from (or that person's child, parent or spouse); coercing, defrauding or unduly influencing that person into making or revoking a will; obstructing a will; presenting a forged will; unlawfully destroying or altering a will; or assisting/instigating any of these. Written forgiveness before a kaymakam (district officer) restores rights; disqualification is personal and does not extend to the disqualified person's own descendants, who inherit in their place.”
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src-kocano-rodoslu-trnc-inheritance-2018 - Announcement on the Decree with Force of Law Regulating the Rules on Acquisition of Immovable Property by Foreigners (Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce)
Yabancıların Taşınmaz Mal Edinimine İlişkin Kuralları Düzenleyen Yasa Gücünde Kararname hk.
Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 14 August 2025 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. This source's own report of the decree's publication and commencement.
Reading note: The underlying gazette text it describes is explicitly unread, per the notes — that is a gap in a different, unregistered source, not in this one.
Editorial note: States that the decree was published in the Official Gazette on 14 August 2025 and entered into force on publication. The gazette text itself has not yet been read by us.
Used by
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src-ktto-decree-2025-08 - Conditions for foreigners to acquire immovable properties in the TRNC (KTIMB)
Cyprus Turkish Building Contractors Association · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The 2018-decree position described in the source notes.
Editorial note: Describes the position under the 2018 Council of Ministers decree (three flats, 30-day contract registration). Superseded by Law 39/2024 but still online without a date: an example of why dates matter.
Conflicts with: Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Lease (Aliens) Law, No. 52/2008, consolidated with amending Law 39/2024
Used by
- regulatory events: The Council of Ministers relaxes the purchase limit to three flats
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src-ktimb-conditions-foreigners - Issuing the Will in TRNC Law in Light of Case Law
KKTC Hukuku'nda Vasiyetnamenin Düzenlenmesi ve İçtihatlar Işığında Değerlendirilmesi
Hacettepe University Faculty of Law Journal · Türkiye · accessed 20 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in full.
Editorial note: Peer-reviewed law journal article (Hacettepe Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi 12(2), 2022, pp. 1268-1296) read in full by NCR Editorial as part of TRNC succession-law research. Cites TRNC case law extensively by court, date and docket number, and traces VVY's origin to the 1837 English Wills Act. IMPORTANT LIMITATION: PROFESSIONAL INTERPRETATION source quoting statute text and case law second-hand — NCR has not independently located or read the primary Vasiyetnameler ve Veraset Yasası text (two independent bounded search attempts on mevzuat.gov.ct.tr failed to locate it; a full-text account-gated search on mahkemeler.net's legislation database was not attempted). Treat article numbers and the forced-heirship share fractions as professionally-interpreted, not primary-verified, until the underlying statute is independently read.
Quoted passages (2)
Citing Vasiyetnameler ve Veraset Yasası (VVY) Art. 22 (formal validity of a will)
Translation: “A will is valid if the testator is 18 or older and of sound mind; is in writing (handwritten by the testator or by another person at the testator's direction and in the testator's presence); is signed by the testator (or, permissively, by someone else at the testator's instruction) in front of at least two witnesses who also sign; and, where the will has more than one page, every page is separately signed or initialled. TRNC courts have applied the multi-page signing rule strictly, invalidating wills where not every page was separately signed. Gifts to a witness, the witness's spouse, or the witness's child are void. There is no oral will and no video/digital will; electronic signatures cannot be used.”
Citing Vasiyetnameler ve Veraset Yasası (VVY), forced heirship provisions (article numbers not independently confirmed by NCR)
Translation: “Forced heirship (saklı pay) exists in TRNC law and protects legitimate children and their descendants, the surviving spouse, and the parents. Reserved shares: children and spouse together take 2/3 of the estate (the testator may freely dispose of only 1/3); children alone take 2/3; spouse alone takes 1/2; parents alone take 1/2. If the spouse is the sole statutory heir and a will exceeds the disposable portion in favour of third parties, TRNC law does not reduce (tenkis) the excess gift — it still passes to the spouse.”
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src-alaslan-trnc-wills-2022 - Law 41/1977 Settlement, Land Distribution and Equivalent Property (ITEM) Law, unofficial English translation with introduction
PRIO Cyprus Centre (Peace Research Institute Oslo) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Text extracted. Local copy held and text-extracted; no quoted passage or content note recorded.
Used by
- claims: Amendment 52/1995 elevated the "definitive possession certificate" issued under Law 41/1977 to the status of an immovable property title deed (koçan), so that any such certificate is read as a title deed with the same meaning as under the Immovable Property (Tenure, Registration and Valuation) Law, Cap. 224. · Law 41/1977 and its amendments distributed property left behind in the north in 1974 to displaced Turkish Cypriots against points representing property they left in the south (the "equivalent property" mechanism introduced by amendment 27/1982), and to other categories such as those who served in 1974 and settlers, through "definitive possession certificates".
- guides: Title deeds and ownership risk
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src-law-41-1977-prio-translation - Law 52/2008 Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-term Lease (Foreigners), unofficial English translation (original 2008 text)
PRIO Cyprus Centre (Peace Research Institute Oslo) · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. Consulted for terminology only.
Reading note: Source's own notes state it is used for terminology only; rules are based on the consolidated Turkish text instead.
Editorial note: Unofficial translation of the 2008 text, before the 2024 amendment. Used for terminology only; rules are based on the consolidated Turkish text.
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src-law-52-2008-prio-translation - TRNC property law changes and transfer fee reduction – 2025 legal update (Erginel Law)
Erginel Law, Advocates and Legal Consultants · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Read in part. The reported changes described in the source notes.
Reading note: Content explicitly flagged in the notes as not yet verified against the gazette.
Editorial note: Describes changes said to take effect on 15 May 2025 by decree, including a reduction of the transfer fee for foreign nationals and changes to acquisition limits. Not yet verified against the gazette text.
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src-erginel-2025-update
Press and commentary
- Decree with force of law on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners (Gündem Kıbrıs report)
Yabancıların taşınmaz mal edinimine ilişkin yasa gücünde kararname
Gündem Kıbrıs · Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC) · published 11 May 2026 · accessed 14 September 2026 · language: Turkish
Reading: Read in part. The reported contents described in the source notes.
Reading note: Press report; no local copy retained.
Editorial note: Press report on a decree stated to have entered into force on 11 May 2026 and to have been submitted to the Assembly. Reported contents: limits of three apartments or one house for foreigners, six apartments for citizens of recognising states, a EUR 10 million investment threshold, a ten-year usage certificate, and a six-month registration window for existing contracts. Not yet verified against the gazette text.
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src-gundem-kibris-decree-2026-05-11 - Rising usurpation arrests provoke tensions in north (Cyprus Mail)
Cyprus Mail · Republic of Cyprus · published 14 May 2025 · accessed 14 September 2026
Reading: Located. Identified and registered; no notes or quoted passage recorded.
Reading note: No evidence of reading beyond registration.
Used by
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src-cyprus-mail-usurpation-arrests-2025-05