Client story
Client's Story
Where they started
Semyon Mikhailovich has long lived by the investor's logic: capital should work and smoothly transfer to his children. Turkey attracted him for its real estate, but one question stopped him—one rarely considered at the outset—inheritance. What happens to the villa or apartment when he passes? How will his children obtain it?
Why the standard route did not work
And the question is not simple. Inheritance of real property in Turkey for foreign nationals is regulated strictly with its own nuances: Turkish law applies, restrictions and complications are possible, and transfer to foreign heirs is more difficult, lengthy, and bureaucratically burdensome. For an elderly person who wants to leave his children an asset, not a headache, this is a serious risk.
What BRIDGES had to solve
The key idea was that citizenship changes the entire framework. When both the owner and his family are Turkish citizens, the property and its inheritance exist within Turkish civil law as for nationals, not as for foreigners. This simplifies and makes predictable the direct transfer of assets to children.
Why a standard answer would not do
Semyon Mikhailovich approached BRIDGES not for a passport for its own sake, but for peace of mind: so that the villa he would purchase would definitely and without difficulties go to his children. The task was not only to obtain status, but to properly structure ownership and inheritance.
At my age, you don't think about yourself, but about your children: so they receive what you've built without complications. I was frightened by how, as a foreigner, to leave real property in Turkey—the inheritance rules there are severe. Anna explained: obtain citizenship—and you and your family will be treated under Turkish law as nationals, transfer to children will be direct and clear. We registered a villa in Bodrum, obtained citizenship, and structured inheritance. Now I am at peace about my children—they will receive an asset, not a problem.
