Living and working here
What it is actually like to run a company and a life from Türkiye: what things cost, where the tech industry sits, teknoparks, offices and the practical side of moving.
Living and working here
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.
Living and working here
What a developer costs you as an employer in Türkiye
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.
Living and working here
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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What a salary actually buys in Istanbul
Rent, transport, utilities and a night out, measured against Berlin and London from the same source. What it means for what you pay a team, and for what you personally spend.
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Which Istanbul teknopark should you join?
Istanbul has more than a dozen technology development zones and they are not interchangeable. What sits where, who they suit, and why the incubator attached to one of them matters more than the rent.
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Teknopark tax breaks and where the Turkish tech industry sits
Your office is one of the few costs the export programme does not reimburse. Teknoparks are the reason that matters less than it sounds, and they change the maths on hiring engineers.
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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 Türkiye and actually operating. What each step needs, which ones block the others, and where the delays really come from.