Türkiye official-source navigator

Türkiye registration, tax and organization information

A reviewed collection of links and bounded summaries from official authorities.

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2026-07-30T23:50:00Z

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Registration

MERSİS supports electronic registration, amendment and deletion transactions for companies and commercial enterprises and stores registry content that must be registered and announced.

The current MERSİS page describes electronic registry transactions and centralized registry information as its core functions.

Open Ministry of Trade / MERSİS high volatility

MERSİS is designed to associate legal persons and other economic units with a unique number and provide public authorities a central information source.

The official page identifies companies, traders, professional bodies, associations, foundations, unions, chambers and public bodies within the central-number function.

Open Ministry of Trade / MERSİS high volatility

The Ministry of Trade maintains distinct legislation and secondary rules for companies, trade registries, formation signatures, titles, liquidation and electronic books.

The current official legislation index lists separate laws, regulations, communiqués and guidance topics.

Open Ministry of Trade high volatility

Tax

GİB guidance states that trade-registry transmission of qualifying corporate-taxpayer registration documents is treated as satisfying the commencement-notification duty for those taxpayers.

General Communiqué No. 546 describes electronic Ministry-to-tax-administration information transfer and the statutory commencement-notification effect.

Open Revenue Administration (GİB) high volatility

GİB’s current taxpayer guidance provides in-person, postal and Digital Tax Office routes for natural persons’ commencement notifications.

The current guidance distinguishes commencement, change and cessation notifications and their available channels.

Open Revenue Administration (GİB) high volatility

GİB distinguishes associations and foundations from their continuous commercial, industrial or agricultural economic enterprises for corporate-tax purposes.

The current corporate-tax guidance states the entity-level position and separately describes associated economic enterprises as corporate taxpayers.

Open Revenue Administration (GİB) high volatility

Lifecycle

GİB treats commencement, business or address changes, and cessation as separate taxpayer notifications.

The page separately lists reportable changes and cessation/change submission routes.

Open Revenue Administration (GİB) high volatility

DERBİS enables associations to submit legally required declarations and notifications electronically.

The official DERBİS page describes electronic association processes and 24-hour declaration and notification submission.

Open Directorate General for Relations with Civil Society high volatility

A February 2026 provincial civil-society notice states that associations’ 2025 declarations are submitted through DERBİS during the 2026 declaration period.

The dated official notice identifies the reporting year, 2026 period and DERBİS channel.

Open Directorate General for Relations with Civil Society / Bilecik Provincial Directorate high volatility

Employer

SGK provides an online workplace-notification application for employers who will begin employing insured workers.

The official application page states its purpose is online transmission of information by employers beginning to employ insured persons.

Open Social Security Institution (SGK) high volatility

Nonprofit

The Ankara civil-society authority describes an association as a legal-person group formed by at least seven natural or legal founders and lists the formation notice, charter and supporting documents for submission to the civil authority.

The current provincial official page states the definition, minimum founders and document list.

Open Directorate General for Relations with Civil Society / Ankara Provincial Directorate high volatility

Official association guidance states that foreign in-kind or cash assistance requires a DERBİS notification before use.

The current official notifications page describes the pre-use DERBİS notification condition.

Open Directorate General for Relations with Civil Society / Karabük Provincial Directorate high volatility