Relocation
13 articles
Studio stories
How Playground Productions brought Backyard Sports back
Lindsay Barnett tracked down the rights to a dead 1990s game franchise, relaunched six titles, and has a new Backyard Baseball and an animated special.
Studio stories
How Latitude turned AI Dungeon into a platform
AI Dungeon launched in 2019 and passed 8 million downloads. In April 2026 Latitude opened Voyage, a platform for building AI-run RPGs.
Studio stories
How ActFirst Games went from a Thunderful exit to a new RPG
Kristian Andersson sold Early Morning Studio to Thunderful for SEK 80 million in 2021. In 2024 he started again in Stockholm with a new RPG.
For your kind of company
Claiming when your team is spread across several countries
A distributed team does not disqualify you. The Decision supports staff in T眉rkiye and staff in overseas offices, but the 0% tax deduction asks where the service is provided from.
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Work permits for the team you bring with you
The founder's residence permit is the easy part. Employing foreign staff runs into a five to one local hiring ratio, a capital test and salary floors set as multiples of the minimum wage.
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What a developer costs you as an employer in T眉rkiye
Gross salary is not the number. Employer contributions add 23.75%, they stop at a ceiling of 297,270 TL a month, and severance accrues from the first year of service.
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T眉rkiye vs Cyprus, Estonia, UAE and Georgia for a game studio
Studios usually compare these five on tax, where they all end up in much the same place. Only one of them also pays you back for what you spend on growth.
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What it costs to set up and run a Turkish company
Registration, capital, notary and translation, accountancy, payroll filings. Real numbers for the entity itself, and how they compare with what a single quarter of claims brings back.
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Istanbul or Ankara: where to base the company
Ankara is cheaper, calmer and holds the country's oldest technopark and its defence industry. Istanbul has the games studios, the investors and the flights. What each one is actually better at.
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Do you have to live in T眉rkiye to own a company there?
Nothing in the incentive rules asks the owners to live here. What the company does need is someone who can act for it locally, and if that someone is you, a work permit.
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Tax number, bank account, residence permit: the order to do them in
The admin that stands between deciding to set up in T眉rkiye and actually operating. What each step needs, which ones block the others, and where the delays really come from.
The 0% IT tax regime
Will my home country tax me anyway?
The question every founder asks before setting up in T眉rkiye. What controlled foreign company rules actually target, why a real operating business is treated differently from a shell, and the three questions to put to your adviser at home.
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Why game studios and SaaS companies are setting up in T眉rkiye
The three things that make T眉rkiye unusual for a software company: 0% tax on exported IT revenue, 50 to 70% cash back on growth spend, and a two-week company setup. Who it fits, who it doesn't.