Why Turchina
There are many advisory firms in Istanbul. Most either speak Mandarin but lack real Turkish depth, or they have the local know-how but cannot communicate clearly with Chinese-speaking clients. Turchina Group sits exactly where those two things meet.
Our team is based in Istanbul day to day. We hold direct working relationships with the institutions that matter: the land registry, the migration directorate, the tax offices, the trademark office, the major banks, the international student offices at the leading universities. At the same time, every engagement is led by a Mandarin speaker from start to finish. You make decisions on facts, not on second-hand translations.
We serve Chinese-speaking individuals, families and companies from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Chinese communities worldwide. That focus means every workflow, document template and checklist is built for their expectations: the documents each home authority issues, the ways money can move, the family questions that matter when a Chinese family moves abroad. Other firms treat Chinese-speaking clients as one segment of many. We treat them as the only one.
We do not advise on any other country. Everything we know, every relationship we have, every hour we spend goes into Turkey. That depth shows up in the small things: checking every address against the current residence rules before a client signs, the right valuer for each Istanbul neighbourhood, the bank manager who knows our files. A generalist firm covering twelve countries cannot match this.
We work with a curated network of independent Turkish professionals: lawyers, chartered accountants, valuers, registered trademark and patent attorneys, and bankers. Each has been tested through real client work over time. When a matter needs one of them, we introduce the right person and you engage them directly; our recommendation is built on years of seeing how they perform.
Every fee is confirmed to you in writing before any engagement begins. Every external cost (government fees, valuation, notarisation, translation) is reconciled against actual receipts, and independent professionals agree their fees with you directly. We do not accept developer commissions, broker fees, referral fees or any payment from third parties. Our compensation comes from clients only. If you use Bosphorus Brokers for a property purchase, note that it is the licensed real estate brokerage of our team member Burak Unal's sole proprietorship; its brokerage commission is set out in a separate written agreement with you.
If a project is not in your interest, we say so. If a property is overpriced, we walk away. If a residence-permit application has a real risk of refusal, we tell you before you spend the application fee. Many advisory firms in this space pretend the answer is always yes. We have built our practice on telling clients the truth, even when it costs us short-term revenue.
Our founder and partners have lived and worked in Turkey for years. Yiman Liu studied law in China (LLB and LLM) and worked on cross-border investment before moving to Turkey. Burak Unal studied finance at the London School of Economics and management at Boğaziçi University, and is a licensed Turkish real-estate broker and registered trademark and patent attorney. Kaan Karanfiloğlu is a Galatasaray University law graduate who keeps the Turkish side of every file in order. The team behind Turchina is not a sales force; it is a small group of qualified people.
Real estate, Turkish citizenship by investment, residence and work permits, university admission, Turkish language tuition, company registration, M&A, import-export trade, intellectual-property filings and cross-border document coordination. Across all of this, the team you talked to stays the same. You are not passed between firms; everything runs inside one accountable engagement, with independent professionals brought in where a step requires them.
If this sounds like the team you have been looking for, get in touch. The first 60-minute consultation is free, in Mandarin or English.
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