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Should your studio set up in Türkiye at all? What the programme is, what it pays, and how it compares to the alternatives.

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Can you stack Türkiye's incentives, or do you have to choose?

Cash support and tax relief sit in different systems and can run together. Inside the tax system you pick one regime, and inside the cash system each expense counts once.

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Every Turkish incentive a foreign software company can use

The export incentive, teknopark, R&D centre status, TÜBİTAK and KOSGEB, what each pays, who qualifies and how they stack.

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Türkiye's IT and gaming export incentives: the complete guide

What Türkiye pays software and game companies for selling abroad, who qualifies, what the money covers, and what a claim takes. Written by the people who file them.

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Is it hard to do business in Türkiye? The objections, answered

Inflation, the lira, banking, bureaucracy and language. The five things founders worry about before setting up in Türkiye, and how much each one actually costs.

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Türkiye 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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Starting a company in Türkiye as a foreigner, start to finish

What a foreign founder actually does to open a Turkish company: the steps, the order, what it costs, how long it takes and what you can skip.

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Limited or joint stock: which Turkish company to set up

Both qualify for the incentives identically, so the choice turns on three things: who can be chased for unpaid tax, what happens when you sell, and whether you plan to raise.

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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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Does a Turkish company need real people in it?

Yes, and the requirement is lighter than founders expect. What the rules actually ask for, and why Türkiye pays half the salary of the people you put there.

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Do you have to live in Türkiye 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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Why game studios and SaaS companies are setting up in Türkiye

The three things that make Türkiye 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.

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Moving an existing studio to Türkiye: what has to move with it

You cannot pick a company up and put it in another country. What you can do is decide which parts move, and one of them decides whether store commissions are claimable at all.

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E-TURQUALITY: what it takes to get into the Branding Programme

Above the programme most companies use sits a second tier with a ceiling of 500 million TL a year. The revenue test, the trademark conditions, what the application costs and the one trade-off to weigh first.

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