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Serkan Kara | Citizenship by Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"805\" class=\"elementor elementor-805 elementor-465\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-16b9763a elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"16b9763a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5da5361f\" data-id=\"5da5361f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e000dc0a elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"e000dc0a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!--\n  serkankara.av.tr - anasayfa g\u00f6vdesi (post 465, Elementor HTML widget'\u0131n\u0131n i\u00e7eri\u011fi).\n\n  KURAL: bu dosya YALNIZ i\u015faretleme ta\u015f\u0131r. 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Serkan Kara\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\">\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div>\n        <p class=\"serka-pf__eyebrow\">Istanbul Bar attorney, international legal practice<\/p>\n\n        <h1 class=\"serka-pf__title\">Av. Serkan Kara<\/h1>\n        <div class=\"serka-pf__rule\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n        \n          <p class=\"serka-pf__role\">Attorney at law, Istanbul; international legal counsel and cross-border practice<\/p>\n          <p class=\"serka-pf__lede\">Serkan Kara is an attorney registered with the Istanbul Bar and has advised international clients since 2015. For foreign investors, families and companies he handles the matters where Turkish law meets more than one country: citizenship and investment, cross-border disputes, real estate, corporate work and enforcement.<\/p>\n          <p class=\"serka-pf__note\">This page is an identity page: it carries no contact channel, and instructions are received through the two practice sites below.<\/p>\n        \n        \n        \n        \n        \n\n        <ul class=\"serka-pf-chips\">\n          <li class=\"serka-pf-chip\"><b>53770<\/b> Istanbul Bar<\/li>\n          <li class=\"serka-pf-chip\"><b>121348<\/b> Union of Turkish Bar Associations<\/li>\n          <li class=\"serka-pf-chip\"><b>2015<\/b> in practice since<\/li>\n          <li class=\"serka-pf-chip\">Vice President, T\u00dcSODER<\/li>\n          <li class=\"serka-pf-chip\">Russian MFA attorney directory, Oct 2025<\/li>\n          <li class=\"serka-pf-chip\"><b>15<\/b> working languages<\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n\n        \n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n<div class=\"serka-pf__wrap\">\n\n<!-- ===================== T\u00dcRK\u0130YE CBI - KARAR TABLOSU ================= -->\n<section class=\"serka-pf-sec\" id=\"calisma-alanlari\">\n  \n    <div class=\"serka-pf-sec__head\"><h2>Areas of practice<\/h2><\/div>\n    <p class=\"serka-pf-sec__intro\">The practice spans nine main areas; each is a point where Turkish law meets an international matter.<\/p>\n    <ul class=\"serka-pf-cards\">\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Citizenship and investment structuring<\/h3><p>Route selection, valuation and banking coordination, certificate of conformity and the citizenship file itself under Article 12(b) of Law No. 5901.<\/p><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Immigration and residence permits<\/h3><p>Short-term, family and work residence permits under Law No. 6458, including the Article 31(j) permit that carries an investor file.<\/p><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Cross-border commercial disputes and arbitration<\/h3><p>Contract structuring for international parties and arbitration before the ICC and ISTAC, with a defence coordinated to hold in more than one forum.<\/p><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Real estate and land registry<\/h3><p>Title history, liens, attachments, mortgages and zoning defects identified before the money moves, and the transfer itself carried through the land registry.<\/p><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Company law<\/h3><p>Incorporation, share transfers, shareholder agreements and foreign capital work under the Turkish Commercial Code, including branch and liaison office structures.<\/p><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Family law and succession<\/h3><p>Divorce, custody, maintenance, inheritance and certificates of succession; where a foreign element exists, jurisdiction and applicable law are set under Law No. 5718.<\/p><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Deportation and entry bans<\/h3><p>Appeals against removal decisions under Article 53(3) of Law No. 6458, where the seven-day application suspends the removal, and applications to lift entry-ban codes.<\/p><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Recognition and enforcement<\/h3><p>Recognition and enforcement in T\u00fcrkiye of foreign judgments and arbitral awards under Law No. 5718 - the step that turns a foreign win into a local recovery.<\/p><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Consumer law<\/h3><p>Claims under Consumer Protection Law No. 6502 before the arbitration committees and consumer courts, alongside the public-interest programme of T\u00dcSODER.<\/p><\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n<\/section>\n\n<!-- ===================== G\u00dcVEN VE DO\u011eRULAMA ========================= -->\n<section class=\"serka-pf-sec\" id=\"dogrulama\">\n  \n    <div class=\"serka-pf-sec__head\"><h2>What can be checked, and where<\/h2><\/div>\n    <p class=\"serka-pf-sec__intro\">A file of this size is given to a person, not to a brochure. Everything below is a public register entry or a published record, and every one of them can be verified without asking this office.<\/p>\n    <ul class=\"serka-pf-defs\">\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-def\"><span class=\"serka-pf-def__k\">Istanbul Bar<\/span><span class=\"serka-pf-def__v\">Roll number 53770, admitted 2015 - searchable in the bar's own directory.<\/span><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-def\"><span class=\"serka-pf-def__k\">Union of Turkish Bar Associations<\/span><span class=\"serka-pf-def__v\">Register number 121348.<\/span><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-def\"><span class=\"serka-pf-def__k\">Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/span><span class=\"serka-pf-def__v\">Listed in the attorney directory for T\u00fcrkiye, October 2025, as Serka Hukuk B\u00fcrosu, Av. Serkan Kara.<\/span><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-def\"><span class=\"serka-pf-def__k\">T\u00dcSODER<\/span><span class=\"serka-pf-def__v\">Vice President of the Turkish consumer-rights association.<\/span><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-def\"><span class=\"serka-pf-def__k\">Education<\/span><span class=\"serka-pf-def__v\">Faculty of Law, Uluda\u011f University; CUSL certificate in United States law, University of Cologne, 2012-2013.<\/span><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-def\"><span class=\"serka-pf-def__k\">Legal commentary<\/span><span class=\"serka-pf-def__v\">CNN T\u00fcrk, A Haber, Flash TV, Beykent TV and the DHA news agency, on consumer and commercial law.<\/span><\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p class=\"serka-pf-src\">No claim on this page rests on a figure that was not read from a register, a statute or an official source. Nothing here promises an outcome: the result of an application is decided by the competent authority, and any firm that guarantees it should be struck off your list.<\/p>\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n<\/section>\n\n<!-- ===================== B\u0130YOGRAF\u0130 ================================== -->\n<section class=\"serka-pf-sec\" id=\"biyografi\">\n  \n    <div class=\"serka-pf-sec__head\"><h2>Biography<\/h2><\/div>\n    <p class=\"serka-pf-sec__intro\">Serkan Kara read law at Uluda\u011f University and has practised since 2015 as a lawyer on the roll of the Istanbul Bar Association, No. 53770. The work concentrates on matters that touch at least two legal systems: investment and citizenship files, cross-border disputes, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"serka-pf-sec__intro\">Before that he completed the CUSL certificate in United States law at the University of Cologne, 2012 to 2013. Comparative training is not decoration in this work: the same contractual clause carries different consequences under continental civil law and under Anglo-American common law, and a foreign client's exposure usually sits precisely in that gap. Reading both systems is what makes a Turkish file predictable to a foreign board.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"serka-pf-sec__intro\">Alongside private practice he serves as Vice President of T\u00dcSODER, the Turkish consumer-rights association. He is the founder of Serka Hukuk B\u00fcrosu, the office through which the T\u00fcrkiye practice runs; the same practice appears internationally as serkalaw.com.<\/p>\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n<\/section>\n\n<!-- ===================== \u0130K\u0130 B\u00dcRO =================================== -->\n<section class=\"serka-pf-sec\" id=\"burolar\">\n  \n    <div class=\"serka-pf-sec__head\"><h2>Two names, one lawyer<\/h2><\/div>\n    <ul class=\"serka-pf-cards\">\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Serka Law Firm<\/h3><p>The international practice: citizenship and investment files, cross-border disputes, foreign investors and companies, correspondence in the client's own language.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/serkalaw.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serkalaw.com<\/a><\/li>\n      <li class=\"serka-pf-card\"><h3>Serka Hukuk B\u00fcrosu<\/h3><p>The T\u00fcrkiye practice: domestic litigation, enforcement and advisory work in Turkish. This is the name under which the office appears in the Russian MFA attorney directory of October 2025.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/serkahukuk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serkahukuk.com<\/a><\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n<\/section>\n\n<!-- ===================== SORU - CEVAP =============================== -->\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizenship by investment \u00b7 Turkey and global programmes Av. Serkan Kara Attorney at law, Istanbul \u00b7 citizenship and residence by investment, cross-border practice Turkish citizenship by investment runs on two thresholds: USD 400,000 in real estate or USD 500,000 in a bank deposit, fixed capital, government debt instrument or a licensed investment fund. 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