Many foreigners, after moving to Turkey, are beginning to be very interested in buying a car in the country, because despite the originality of the driving style, the roads in Turkey are rightfully considered one of the best in Europe, and in comparison with the CIS countries, the quality is much higher.
Before becoming a motorist in this sunny Republic, you need to mentally prepare yourself that car prices in the country are much higher than we are used to watching abroad, the reason is the sufficiently high taxes when buying vehicles, due to which, in fact, luxurious autobahns are built. , according to which these machines can be used without fear of a quick replacement of the running parts of your iron horse.
When buying a car, a foreign citizen will need to have only a few documents:
International passport, its notarized translation into Turkish
Turkey Residence or Work Permit Card
If you have not yet received documents permitting permanent residence in the country, and you really want to move around the country in your own car, there is a way out! To complete a transaction for the sale and purchase of a car at a notary, it is enough to have a tax number of a foreigner, the receipt of which was greatly simplified during the coronavirus pandemic and now, you can issue an identification code online on the website of the state tax service at ivd.gib.gov.tr (there is a version in English language).
Car purchase and sale transactions in Turkey are seriously protected by the state in order to exclude fraudulent actions, so the procedure necessarily takes place in any notary chamber, regardless of the place of registration of the car, seller or buyer, and the process is quite transparent: the seller (or representative of the car dealership) and the buyer come to a notary's office, a notary draws up a sale and purchase agreement, the notary checks that there are no fines, encumbrances or tax debts behind the car, money is transferred in cash or by bank transfer, the contract is signed by both parties, the notary prints out a new certificate of registration of the vehicle - the car Yours!
If the seller is a Turkish citizen, and the buyer is a foreigner, or vice versa, it is necessary to replace the state number plate, in view of the fact that foreign citizens in Turkey are assigned a certain series of numbers (MA, MB, MC, and so on). If necessary, the notary registers the car under a certain number, issues all the relevant documents, the old number is surrendered, and a new sign can be printed in the provincial driver's chamber.
