Short-Term Rental Permit in Turkey

If the letting does not exceed one hundred days, yes. The Law defines tourism-purpose letting as letting a residence to a user for any purpose for a maximum of one hundred days, and requires a permit to be obtained before the agreement is made. The platform used is irrelevant; what matters is that the term does not exceed one hundred days.

Yes. The Law sets no threshold of frequency or income; letting a single residence for up to one hundred days falls within the definition. The argument that the activity is not commercial in scale has no basis in the text. Frequency becomes relevant only in one place: the prohibition on letting the same property more than four times a year where each agreement exceeds one hundred days.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism is competent to issue permits and may exercise that power through the provincial governorate. Permit and plaque fees are set by the Ministry. Once issued, a plaque with the characteristics determined by the Ministry must be displayed at the entrance of the property being let.

Yes, and the requirement is strict. The application must include a resolution taken unanimously by all owners of the building in which the independent section is located. A single owner voting against prevents the permit. In complexes made up of several buildings only the owners of the relevant building are required, and a copy of the permit is sent to the site management.

The Law provides no majority decision that can substitute for unanimity, so where consent cannot be obtained a permit cannot be issued. The only remaining avenue is to establish whether the building falls within the high-quality residence exception, which requires a provision in the management plan permitting short-term letting together with the service and facility conditions listed in the statute.

In buildings with more than three independent sections, a permit may be issued in the name of the same lessor for at most twenty-five per cent of the sections. If the number held under permit by the same person in that building exceeds five, the application must also include a workplace opening and operating licence, and, where the building is in a complex, a resolution taken unanimously by all owners.

No. The statute closes that route expressly. Even where each agreement exceeds one hundred days, letting the same property more than four times within one year of the first agreement attracts a fine of one million lira. The test is the number of lettings in a year, not the term stated in the agreement.

One hundred thousand lira for each property let, together with fifteen days to obtain the permit. If letting continues without a permit after that period, five hundred thousand lira and a further fifteen days. If it still continues, one million lira. These are the amounts in the Law as enacted; administrative fines are revalued annually, so the current figure should be confirmed.

No. The Law expressly prohibits a tenant who rented a property to use as a home from letting it for tourism purposes to third parties on their own account. It equally prohibits a user who rented from a permit holder from re-letting on their own account. Both attract a fine of one hundred thousand lira per agreement.

The obligation to obtain the permit always rests with the lessor. Where tourism-purpose letting is to be carried out by someone other than the lessor, it may be done only through group (A) travel agencies licensed under the Travel Agencies Act. Anyone acting as an intermediary for a property without a permit faces a fine of one hundred thousand lira per agreement.

Yes. Intermediary service providers enabling the promotion of properties without a permit face a fine per property if they do not remove the content within twenty-four hours of a Ministry warning. A decision is also given for removal of the content and/or blocking of access to the relevant publication, and it is sent to the Access Providers Union for implementation.

Yes. A decision for removal of content and/or blocking of access may be challenged before the magistrate judge, and the magistrate's decision may in turn be objected to under the Code of Criminal Procedure. The periods are short, so establishing the date of notification is the first step.

Most of the sanctions under this Law are imposed by the highest civil administrative authority of the district where the property is located; some are imposed directly by the Ministry. Challenges follow the procedure in the Misdemeanours Act and the period is short. For that reason, documenting the date of notification and filing in time is often more decisive than the substance of the objection.

It applies to residences with more than one independent section whose management plan permits short-term letting, which have reception, security and daily cleaning service areas, and where services such as health, dry cleaning, laundry, transport, catering and shopping, along with a gym and swimming pool, can be provided. For these, the unanimity and twenty-five per cent conditions do not apply, and letting may be carried out through a residence operator with the permit issued in that company's name.

Where the permit holder is a natural person and no application is made by the heirs within three months of the date of death, the permit becomes invalid. The same result follows where a legal entity holder ceases to exist. In both cases the rights of existing users continue until the end of their agreement.

Yes. Where the lessor changes by a legal transaction other than inheritance, the change must be notified within thirty days of its registration in the land register; failure to do so attracts a fine of fifty thousand lira. The same fine applies where information and documents requested by the Ministry are not sent within thirty days, are sent incomplete, or are misleading.

Misleading presentation of the location, quality or physical characteristics of the property through text, advertising, posters, brochures, social media or a website, failure to provide the conditions promised, or allocating the property for a shorter period than stated in the agreement each attract a fine of one hundred thousand lira. Failing to deliver the property in accordance with the agreement is separately sanctioned, and if the payment is not refunded within the fifteen days allowed, the fine rises to two hundred thousand lira.

Two routes are considered together. The administrative one: since a permit depends on the unanimous consent of all owners in the building, letting carried out without your consent can be reported as unlicensed activity. The second lies in condominium law; depending on the nature of the disturbance, removal of the breach may be sought, and where the breach makes the position of the other owners intolerable, the transfer remedy provided by the Condominium Act may come into play.