Gaining Turkish Citizenship for expats

Not many! You can live quite happily in Turkey as a foreigner as long as you keep renewing your temporary permanent residence.

Under the current economic doom in Turkey I wouldn't consider it.

With PR, you can buy a car, open a bank account, open accounts with utility suppliers etc.

Thank you ceebee for your succint response.  I suspected as much.  i understand I can purchase a residence and move about freely in and out of the country, constraint free as long as my documents are kept current.

As to your comment about the economic doom, does that pose any concerns for expats?  I have been aware of the economic woes in Turkey and understand it is inconsequential for us retirees  though concerned it may have negative repercussions in day to day living.

In simple terms the Turkish people are suffering through rampant inflation and we expats are somewhat "insulated" from the huge increase in food and other consumer items.

The Turkish government has asked citizens to hand over any hard currency savings and now wants their personal gold jewellery so that it can be melted down into bullions and used to prop up the governments foreign currency debt and spending.

I am not in Turkey this year due to Covid and travel restrictions in my home country but my mates have commented on the huge increases in daily items and the massive currency devaluation.

I must say that I am a little concerned about the future.

It really depends on your reasons for wanting to get citizenship and also, where you are coming from.

For people with Middle east / Asian nationalities e.g. Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and so on (especially expats living and working in the GCC), getting a Turkish passport is quite attractive vs. their existing one.  They get a boost in their mobility (though you don't get UK or the Schengen visa on arrival), don't have to go back home when they finish in the GCC (you don't get naturalized here for the most part) and a counter to the instability in their current country.  What also helps is that:

1) You get it by buying property worth $250K.  In other programs like the Caribbean ones; property investment is $400K and up (plus location is too far away - point 2)
2) It is close enough in terms of geographic distance and culture (somewhat) to their respective home countries so they don't feel out of place
3) Cost of living (minus current economic meltdown) is also better than where they are now i.e. Saudi, UAE etc.

Now, if you don't fall into that subset, in the current climate, I would never advise going for citizenship.  As others have said, you can do just fine on a residence visa which is easy to get.

Thank you Xtang for your very clear detailed explanation.  I will proceed with my original plans then.  Also, your profile picture is cool.

Thanks