LinkedInJuly 22, 2026
Türkiye scores 2.1 out of 10 on currency stability, the lowest of the 16 citizenship by investment programs tracked. The entry ticket is USD 400,000 of property under a three year resale restriction.
The threshold is set in dollars. The asset you end up holding is not. And the conversion is not optional.
Since January 2022, the foreign currency has to be sold to the Central Bank through a Turkish bank before title can pass. The lira amount from that conversion is what goes on the deed. So the move into lira is compulsory, and the property then cannot be sold for three years.
Over the three years to mid July, the lira lost 44 percent of its dollar value. Annual inflation was 32.11 percent in June and has stayed above 30 percent since December 2021.
The five Eastern Caribbean programs score 9.05 to 9.50 on the same measure. Their currency has been pegged to the US dollar since 1976.
The property can rise sharply in lira and still leave the holder behind in dollars when the restriction lifts. Citizenship is the deliverable, subject to approval. My read is that the three year exposure is the real price, and that it is a currency position before it is a real estate one.
If you were pricing this route, would you hedge the lira leg over the three years, or treat the property itself as the hedge?
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