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Türkiye day-count rules

Spending time in Türkiye? The rules below can affect tax residency, your right to remain and any path to residence or citizenship. This page brings Türkiye's day-count rules together — each explained in plain English, with a calculator and a link to the official source.

Tax residency

• 🇹🇷Avoid Turkey tax residencyA continuous stay of more than six months in a calendar year. Temporary absences do not break it.<=182 / YEAR
• 🇹🇷Become Turkey tax residentA continuous stay of more than six months in a calendar year. Temporary absences do not break it.>=183 / YEAR

Visas & entry

• 🇹🇷Turkey visitorNinety days in any 180 — the same shape as Schengen, and counted the same way.<=90 / VISIT