Company Formation
A Turkish company, limited (LTD) or joint-stock (A.Ş.), incorporated remotely via power of attorney in two to four weeks.
- Remote
- LTD or A.Ş.
- POA-based
- 2–4 weeks
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Company & Compliance
Virtual Office
A registered business address in Ankara, valid for the trade registry, tax office, banking, and counterparty contracts. One-year lease, renewable.
- Ankara
- 1-year lease
- Bank-acceptable
- Renewable
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Mandatory Registrations
Mali mühür, e-fatura, e-defter, and KEP: the four electronic components every Turkish company needs, provisioned during incorporation.
- Mandatory
- Day-one
- Universal from 2026
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Holding Structure
Decide who holds the shares of your Turkish company. A person, another company you own, or Turquo on your behalf.
- Three options
- Decided in the call
- Registered on day one
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Banking & Payments
Corporate Bank Account
A real Turkish IBAN at a partner private bank, opened remotely via power of attorney. Internet banking, corporate cards, multi-currency rails included.
- Real TR IBAN
- Remote via POA
- Partner private bank
- 2–4 weeks
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Multi-Currency Banking
TRY, USD, and EUR sub-accounts under one corporate banking relationship. Receive in the original currency, convert on your timing, evidence the service-export exemption.
- TRY · USD · EUR
- Original-currency receipts
- Corporate FX rates
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App Store & Google Play Payouts
Apple and Google paying your Turkish entity directly, in the original currency, at treaty withholding rates. The tax forms, the bank binding, the developer-account migration.
- W-8BEN-E
- Türkiye-US treaty
- USD payouts
- Treaty withholding
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Virtual POS
A card-acquiring relationship for direct web, off-store, and B2B sales. Onboarded to a bank or licensed payment service provider, integrated against 3D-Secure 2, settled daily to your corporate IBAN.
- Card-acquiring
- 3D-Secure 2
- BDDK-licensed
- Daily settlement
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IP, Contracts & Privacy
IP & Royalty Agreements
The intercompany agreements that move IP and revenue between your HQ and the Turkish entity. Arm's-length, bilingual, treaty-aware, and designed to keep the service-export exemption clean.
- Bilingual EN/TR
- Article 13 aligned
- Treaty-aware
- Exemption-safe
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Employment & Freelancer Templates
Bilingual full-time, contractor, and NDA templates that comply with the Turkish Labour Code, survive a Turkish court, and lock down IP assignment for every line of code, frame of art, and asset your team produces.
- EN/TR
- Law No. 4857
- Law No. 5846
- IP watertight
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Trademark Registration
Your game name, logo, character, and slogan registered with TÜRKPATENT under Industrial Property Law No. 6769. Extended to 130+ jurisdictions through the Madrid Protocol when you ship globally.
- TÜRKPATENT
- Law No. 6769
- Madrid Protocol
- 10-year term
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KVKK / GDPR Compliance Pack
Türkiye's KVKK Law No. 6698 (post-March 2024 amendments) and the EU GDPR covered with a single, coherent compliance pack. Privacy policies, internal records, VERBIS registration, processor DPAs, cross-border transfer mechanism.
- KVKK Law 6698
- GDPR
- VERBIS
- Post-2024 cross-border
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Tax, Accounting & R&D
Bookkeeping & Tax Filings
Monthly bookkeeping under the Turkish Uniform Chart of Accounts, every statutory filing on its statutory date, run by a licensed Turkish CPA on the e-fatura and e-defter rails. Built so your investors and your CFO can read it.
- Monthly close
- Licensed CPA
- E-defter / e-fatura
- Investor-readable
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Service Export Tax Structure
Türkiye's headline incentive for foreign-facing software and gaming studios: a 100% corporate-tax exemption on qualifying service-export income under Article 10/1-ğ. The contract structure, banking flow, and bookkeeping designed to qualify every year, not just the first.
- 100% exemption
- Article 10/1-ğ
- VAT zero-rated
- Preserved vs minimum tax
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Transfer Pricing Documentation
The arm's-length study, the annual file, and the form filed with your corporate-tax return. Built to OECD and Article 13 standards so the Revenue Administration finds nothing to adjust.
- Article 13
- OECD 2022 Guidelines
- Master + Local File
- Annual TP form
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R&D Center Application
A Ministry-certified R&D Center under Law No. 5746. A stack of incentives that drops the effective cost of R&D and design personnel sharply, once the file is approved.
- Law No. 5746
- ≥ 15 R&D FTE
- Through 2028
- Ministry of Industry
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Tech-Park Placement
Placement in a Technology Development Zone under Law No. 4691. The strongest single tax incentive in Türkiye for software and gaming studios: 0% corporate tax on qualifying zone income, 0% income tax on zone personnel, 0% VAT on delivered software, half of employer SGK funded by the Treasury.
- Law No. 4691
- 0% corp tax
- Through 2028
- Up to 100% remote
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VAT Refund Recovery
A performance-based recovery service that turns the input VAT credits built up from service exports and other zero-rated supplies into cash or future-tax offsets. YMM tasdik handled where the threshold triggers it.
- VAT Law 3065
- YMM tasdik
- Performance fee
- 12% of recovery
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People & Permits
Payroll Management
Monthly gross-to-net under Income Tax Law No. 193 and Social Insurance Law No. 5510. Every exemption applied, every declaration filed, every payslip bilingual. R&D and tech-park stack handled where it applies.
- MUHSGK by 26th
- SGK + income tax
- EN/TR payslips
- R&D-aware
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ESOP / Phantom Stock Framework
A legally enforceable equity-incentive framework for your Turkish team. Phantom stock under the Code of Obligations, or true options on the foreign topco. Vesting, cliffs, leaver rules, and exit triggers aligned with your global cap table.
- Phantom or options
- 4y vest / 1y cliff
- Code of Obligations
- Treaty-aware
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Work Permits for Key Personnel
Work permits for your foreign senior hires under International Labour Force Law No. 6735. End-to-end through the Ministry of Labour, residence card through Migration Management, fast-track route for R&D and tech-park personnel where it applies.
- Law No. 6735
- Per person
- Family route
- R&D fast-track
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Reporting & Investor-readiness
Financial Reporting (IFRS-aligned)
A parallel management view of your Turkish numbers, in TFRS (IFRS-converged) format with IAS 29 inflation accounting handled. Quarterly for Builder, monthly for Enterprise. Built so a Big-4 auditor or an institutional investor picks it up without rework.
- TFRS / IFRS-aligned
- IAS 29 ready
- Board-ready
- Audit-clean
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Investor Data-Room & DD Support
A clean, indexed virtual data room and an in-the-room responder for your next financing or M&A round, on the Türkiye side. Assembled before the question is asked, defended through closing.
- Per round
- Indexed VDR
- Bilingual responder
- Closing support
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Türkiye incentives
Half the growth spend.
Wired back to you.
Türkiye's 2026 service-export programme reimburses 50% — or 70% in priority markets — of the costs that drive growth: ads, hosting, personnel, foreign-office expansion. The detail page maps every category, every cap, and how the math actually lands for a studio your size.
At a glance
Standard rate
Across all eligible spend
50%
Priority-market rate ✦
In Ministry-designated countries
70%
Categories covered
Marketing · Infra · Personnel · International · Strategic
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Behind the scenes
One door for you.
Three licensed firms behind it.
You only ever talk to us. We coordinate three local partners who hold the licences. They sign the papers, run the books, and open the bank.
You talk to
Turquo
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Partner law firm
Files the company. Drafts your contracts.
Locally licensed, focused on foreign-invested companies. They sign for you under power of attorney, so you never see a Turkish form.
02
Partner accountants
Books, payroll, monthly filings.
Licensed CPAs who keep the lights on every month. You get clean reports. They speak to the tax office on your behalf.
03
Partner bank
Opens your account. Real Turkish IBAN.
A private bank with a documented process for foreign-owned companies. You bank remotely from day one. No branch visit needed.
How we structure work
Three engagement shapes.
Studio Starter
What's included
- Company formation
- Bank account (POA)
- Virtual office, e-invoice, e-ledger
- 12 months bookkeeping
- Payroll for 1 employee
Studio Builder
What's included
- Everything in Starter
- Marketing incentive filings
- IP & royalty agreements
- App Store & Google Play payout setup
- Multi-currency banking (TRY / USD / EUR)
- Employment templates (EN/TR)
- Payroll up to 5
Studio Enterprise
What's included
- Everything in Builder
- ESOP / phantom stock framework
- Transfer pricing documentation
- Holding structure setup
- Investor data-room & DD support
- Payroll up to 15 + IFRS-aligned reporting
Ready to map your setup?
Free 30-minute discovery call. We'll match the right services to your stage and come back with a fixed-fee proposal.