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Yatırım yoluyla vatandaşlık tartışması: 10 yılda kaç bin kişiye verildi?

Kronos Haber · News · 8 Aug 2026 · Türkiye

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Kronos (8 Aug 2026) explainer on Turkish citizenship by investment: Istanbul operation (16 provinces, 90 suspects, 72 detained, 687 irregular citizenships), ministry figures on 6,134 cancelled citizenships (1,413 investors; 1,150 certificates cancelled / 5,391 people; 263 investors / 743 people on security grounds), regulation history (2016 law change, USD 1m in 2017, USD 250,000 from 19 Sep 2018, USD 400,000 in 2022, other USD 500,000 routes and 50 jobs), 2024 valuation monopoly (already an event), Minister Çiftçi's 29 May 2026 totals (in the data), the bar association's case and three Council of State decisions (now events), EPRS figures cited by the Presidency (132,000+ people, EUR 21.4bn+ in the EU 2011-2019). Not extracted: individual wanted persons who bought property (named individual cases); out of scope: all naturalisations by authority decision 2016-2025 (562,701 gained, 213,444 lost; yearly figures) and Syrians naturalised (238,733), which are not investment-route figures.

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What it covers Quotes Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi's 29 May 2026 answer to journalist Kemal Öztürk (174,567 persons; 51,762 investors; 122,805 family members; USD 16.074bn); timeline; Council of State case of the Bar Association; first-wave figures (687).

Notes Secondary. Original Çiftçi interview (reportedly with Al Jazeera Türk / Kemal Öztürk) not located. URL redirects from kronos41.news. Also gives yearly totals of ALL naturalisations by 'competent authority decision' (e.g. 79,757 in 2019) which are NOT CBI figures and are not recorded here.

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