You are already here. It is the running that is hard.
Most foreign companies do not struggle with setting up in Türkiye. They struggle six months later, when four providers each hold one piece of the operation and nobody holds the whole of it — usually least of all the person at head office whose job this was not supposed to be.
We take the coordination layer. Your accountant, your lawyer and your customs broker keep doing what they are licensed to do — we make sure the work between them happens, on time, with someone answerable when it does not.
One contract, one invoice, one person to call. And a portal where you can see the state of it without asking.
Nobody owns the seams.
Each provider does their piece correctly and the operation still fails, because the failures live between them. The accountant files on the numbers they were given. The broker declares what was on the invoice. The HR provider processes the payroll they received. None of them is wrong, and the result is still wrong.
So somebody at head office ends up holding the seams — usually a finance manager in another country, in another language, who inherited Türkiye along with three other markets.
Four correct providers and no coordination produce an incorrect operation.
Why the missing layer is not another specialistThe layer above the specialists.
Not a replacement for your licensed providers. The work that sits between them, plus the hands-on operational tasks that nobody has been given.
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One compliance calendar
Tax filings, payroll deadlines, permit renewals, statutory books, licence expiries and annual obligations — in one timetable with one owner, instead of four calendars nobody reconciles.
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Goods actually moving
Classification, clearance, storage and delivery coordinated against what accounting and tax expect to see. The declaration and the ledger describing the same transaction is not automatic.
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People and the obligations attached to them
Recruitment, employee administration, work permits, payroll coordination — and the employment-law consequences of decisions taken quickly in another country.
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Dealing with authorities
Correspondence, inspections, document requests and the follow-up that determines whether a routine query stays routine.
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Suppliers, customers and site visits
Someone physically present who can go and look — at a supplier, a warehouse, a customer, a problem. Remote coordination has a limit and it is usually reached at the worst moment.
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Reporting your head office can use
In the format and language your group reporting needs, on a schedule you can plan around, with the underlying documents attached rather than promised.
Work that Turkish law reserves to a licensed profession stays with the licence holder — that is set out on the governance page, including what we are and are not answerable for.
We do not ask you
to burn anything down.
Most companies arriving at this page already have providers. Some of them are good. The first thing we do is look at what is there — the books, the filing history, the correspondence with authorities, and an honest account of anything outstanding.
Sometimes the conclusion is that your existing providers are fine and what was missing is the layer above them. Sometimes it is that a specific piece needs replacing. We will tell you which, and we will say so if the answer is that you do not need us.
Transitions go wrong when the outgoing provider is treated as an adversary rather than a source. They hold the history, and the history is what an inspection asks about.
What companies ask when they are already here.
Taken from first conversations with companies that entered two or three years ago.
We already have an accountant and a lawyer. What would you add?
Probably not a replacement for either. What is usually missing is the layer above them — the person who knows that the tax filing, the work permit renewal, the customs declaration and the bank's document request are connected, and who is answerable when one of them slips.
If your existing providers are good and someone in your organisation already holds that layer, you may not need us. We would rather establish that in the first conversation.
Can you take over from our current provider?
Yes, and the handover is the part to plan carefully. We need the books, the filing history, the correspondence with authorities and an honest account of anything outstanding. Transitions go wrong when the outgoing provider is treated as an adversary rather than a source.
We do not ask you to terminate anything before we have looked at what is there.
How do we know what is actually happening?
Through a client portal showing tasks, deadlines, documents and status — not through a monthly email saying everything is fine. Where goods are involved, that includes stock position and customs status.
The point is not the software. It is that you can check without asking, and that we cannot quietly fall behind.
Our Turkish entity is loss-making. Is that a problem?
Not in itself, but it changes what deserves attention. Related-party pricing, thin capitalisation and the corporate tax floor all become more relevant when the local entity reports losses while the group does not. These are the positions an inspection tends to look at first.
Whether any of them applies to you is a question for your tax adviser on your numbers, and we will say so rather than guess.
We want to reduce our Türkiye headcount without closing down. Possible?
Often yes, and this is one of the more common reasons companies come to us. Reducing an operation is a different exercise from closing one: the entity stays, the obligations stay, the people and the fixed cost change.
What we cannot do is make an employment relationship disappear by relabelling it. Severance, notice and social security obligations follow the reality of the relationship, not the wording of the document.
What happens if you get something wrong?
You are told, in writing, within a defined response time, with what we propose to do about it. Our engagement terms set out what we are answerable for and what remains with the licensed professional or with you.
A provider who has not written that down before work starts will write it after the problem, which is late.
Twelve capabilities
Use the ones your operation is missing. Leave the rest with whoever already does them well.
Governance
What we are answerable for, what stays with the licence holder, and the work we decline.
Tell us what is not working
We look at what you have before suggesting anything is replaced.