Turkey Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 81,388 Turkey companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Turkey company register data is filed on the Ticaret Sicili (Trade Registry) under the Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102, with each company also keeping its own internal pay defteri (share ledger). Beneficial ownership is reported separately on the Gerçek Faydalanıcı Bilgi Formu (Real Beneficiary Information Form), filed with the Revenue Administration under Law No. 5549 on preventing the laundering of proceeds of crime, and overseen by MASAK, Turkey's Financial Crimes Investigation Board, at a threshold above 25% of shares or voting rights. Access is restricted to authorized personnel and competent authorities rather than open to general search.
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Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Turkey, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Turkey
Turkey’s company registry operates under the Turkish Commercial Code (Türk Ticaret Kanunu, Law No. 6102, enacted 2011/effective 2012), with Trade Registry Offices under Chambers of Commerce/Industry, supervised by the Ministry of Trade, and MERSIS (Central Registry Record System, implemented around 2015) assigning a unique 16-digit number to every registered entity. No single authoritative “total registered companies” figure exists from the Ministry of Trade/TOBB itself — a widely-repeated commercial-broker figure (1,336,321 MERSIS entities) is not a primary government source, while TÜİK’s official “active enterprises” count (4,016,059 for 2025, released around August 27, 2026) measures a broader population of active business establishments and should not be conflated with a registered-companies total. TOBB recorded 113,779 new company formations in 2025 (-1.5% year-on-year) and 33,270 closures (+5.9%), with new formation running +5.6% year-on-year through the first five months of 2026. Beneficial ownership is governed by General Communiqué No. 529 (Revenue Administration, effective July 13, 2021), requiring disclosure of natural persons holding more than 25% of shares; access is NOT public — restricted to the entity and its declared beneficial owner, obliged due-diligence service providers, and the Revenue Administration, a materially more restricted model than the UK/EU public-register approach. Turkey was removed from the FATF grey list on June 28, 2024, after being listed since October 2021 — a fact that is stale in a lot of older content still describing Turkey as grey-listed.
Foreign investment is governed by the Foreign Direct Investment Law No. 4875 (2003), guaranteeing national treatment for foreign investors; the FDI Strategy 2024-2028 targets raising FDI’s share of GDP to 1.5% by 2028, and Presidential Decision No. 9903 (May 30, 2025) restructured investment incentives into three pillars valid for applications through December 31, 2030. H1 2025 investment-incentive certificates totaled 2,410 for 2,437 projects (projected fixed investment approximately TL 447.9 billion, expected employment 64,416 jobs), of which only 119 certificates (approximately 4.9%) went to foreign-capital companies (TL 35.3 billion planned investment) versus 2,291 to domestic-owned companies (TL 412.6 billion) — a genuine entity-count-based measure of foreign investment activity, distinct from the broader monetary FDI inflow figure. 2025 FDI inflows reached US$13.1 billion (+12.2% year-on-year), the highest annualized level since May 2023, with wholesale and retail trade the largest destination sector (approximately 32% of inflows) and FDI excluding real estate reaching US$10.7 billion, the highest in the past decade.
Turkey’s monetary policy underwent a genuine reversal, not a simple one-directional trend: following Mehmet Şimşek’s appointment as Finance Minister in mid-2023, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) hiked its policy rate aggressively through 2023-2024 (peaking around 50%) before beginning a cutting cycle from December 2024 onward, holding at 37% as of its September 10, 2026 decision (the 5th consecutive hold); inflation eased to 31.51% annually in August 2026, with the CBRT targeting 13-19% for 2026 and a longer-term 5% target. The lira has depreciated in a managed, gradual pattern since mid-2023 (roughly 7-9 lira/year, 1-2%/month) rather than the disorderly crash seen under the prior policy regime, weakening past 48/USD by August 2026. GDP grew 3.6% in 2025 (Q4 +3.4% year-on-year), with 2026 forecasts of 3.7-4.0%. Population reached 86,092,168 as of December 31, 2025 (TÜİK), with unemployment at 8.2-8.5% in early 2026 (youth unemployment 15.8%). Turkey’s Syrian refugee population has fallen approximately 40% since its 2021 peak of roughly 3.6-3.7 million to 2,245,765 as of July 9, 2026, driven substantially by returns following the fall of the Assad government in December 2024 (over 650,000 returned December 2024-April 2026) — a genuine correction to a still widely-repeated but now stale figure. EU accession has been frozen since 2018 over rule-of-law concerns, with the European Parliament reaffirming in a May 2025 report that accession cannot resume “under current circumstances.”
Turkey company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
From TÜİK’s Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Statistics bulletin (exact edition year not independently confirmed in research, likely 2024 data): approximately 3.713 million SMEs in industry and services sectors represent 99.7% of total enterprises; despite this near-total numerical dominance, SMEs account for 70.5% of employment, 47.4% of turnover, and 41.6% of production value, with only 30.0% of R&D expenditure (TL 72.763 billion). The 0.3% "Large enterprises" row is the mathematical complement of the widely-cited 99.7% SME share, since no separately-sourced large-enterprise count was located. Source: Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Statistics bulletin.
Foreign-controlled entities
Of 2,410 total investment-incentive certificates issued in H1 2025 (Industry and Technology Ministry data via the Presidency’s Investment and Finance Office), only 119 (approximately 4.9%) went to foreign-capital companies (approximately TL 35.3 billion planned investment), versus 2,291 certificates to domestic-owned companies (TL 412.6 billion) — a genuine, dated, entity-count-based measure of foreign investment activity for that six-month period, not a total stock of foreign-owned enterprises operating in Turkey. Monetary FDI inflows for full-year 2025 reached US$13.1 billion (+12.2% year-on-year, the highest annualized level since May 2023), kept here as narrative context rather than in the structured percentage field given the distortion risk of monetary FDI figures generally; wholesale and retail trade was the largest destination sector (approximately 32% of inflows).
Who uses Turkey ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Turkey counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 504 Turkey entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies does Zavia have on record for Turkey?
Zavia holds 81,388 company records for Turkey, of which 81,381 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Is beneficial ownership (UBO) data public in Turkey?
Turkey company register data is filed on the Ticaret Sicili (Trade Registry) under the Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102, with each company also keeping its own internal pay defteri (share ledger). Beneficial ownership is reported separately on the Gerçek Faydalanıcı Bilgi Formu (Real Beneficiary Information Form), filed with the Revenue Administration under Law No. 5549 on preventing the laundering of proceeds of crime, and overseen by MASAK, Turkey's Financial Crimes Investigation Board, at a threshold above 25% of shares or voting rights. Access is restricted to authorized personnel and competent authorities rather than open to general search.
Does Zavia have shareholder and group structure data for Turkey companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 160 shareholder records for Turkey companies, with 71,513 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Does Zavia have director and officer data for Turkey companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 2,845 officer and director records for Turkey companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Does Zavia have VAT registration data for Turkey companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 1 VAT records for Turkey companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Does Zavia have financial report data for Turkey companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 504 digitized financial reports for Turkey companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Can I access Turkey's company data through an API?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Turkey, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Where can I read more about how UBO verification works in Turkey?
Zavia's Turkey beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.