The key personnel framework is tied to specific company conditions; in smaller structures, a Turquoise Card or a well-structured standard permit may be more realistic. We clarify this with an analysis.
In a small structure the real bottleneck is the quota rule: as a rule five Turkish nationals have to be employed for every foreign national taken on, and capital and turnover thresholds are applied alongside it — while the “key personnel” route itself turns on the company meeting the direct-foreign-investment thresholds under Law No. 4875. Foreign nationals who are shareholders in the company, and a handful of other exceptions, soften that rule. Which status suits you best — key personnel, a shareholder permit, or the Turquoise Card — is what the analysis settles against those thresholds.
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