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One thing everyone should remember is that many countries give residence permits or even citizenship for investments. In several countries it's about 1 million dollars.
There's one huge difference though between how other countries do it and how we do it. We give citizenship to whole families when only one guy buys a house. In some other countries your spouse can also become a citizen, but even if your spouse becomes a citizen, if your (already born) children aren't born in the country they will not get citizenship.
Second big difference is, they give the permit or (rarely) citizenship for investment, only after you lived in the country for several years, can prove your loyalty to the country and you can also prove you understand the culture, laws and your civic duties as a citizen, in the form of passing a test.
One big problem that no one, not even people like Ümit Özdağ, brings up, is the allegiance of these new citizens. I know Iranians so I will tell you about them. Persian Iranians' (as opposed to Azerbaijani Turks, Arabs, Turkmen and Baluch in Iran) main "other" inside their own country are the Azerbaijani Turks which constitute the largest minority (Persians aren't a majority either, only probably a plurality; no official numbers exist). Unlike say Kurds in Turkey, Azerbaijani Turks in Iran held power in the geographical Iranian Plateau from around the year 1000 to 1900, with very short periods of Persian regional rule. When Persians took over the reigns of power in the twentieth century in a coup with the help of the British, they started creating a new national identity for the country which was, naturally for them, defined against those who had ruled the country for so long, i.e Turks. So the national identity of Persian Iranians is defined with a backdrop of hatred of Turks. Anybody who has lived in Iran and knows enough Farsi to surpass the surface level politeness and cordiality of social interaction to get to the bottom of the ideological basis of a people's outlook knows that Persian Iranians have a deep hatred of Turks of all kinds. Other than this, based on racist delusions of Aryan race, they see ethnicities such as Kurds or Armenians as basically Persians and consider them blood brothers. You can see this in their reaction to Turkey's operations in Syria, or Azerbaijan's war with Armenia. Their government tries (or at least tried up until a couple of years ago) to hide this hatred and attitude towards Turks, but if an ideology is prevalent among a people it will inevitably become state policy. Many don't know this but there is a shadow ban on any importer who tries to import stuff from Turkey to Iran, even if it is profitable for them to buy from Turkey instead of let's say Italy or South Korea. Turkey is right next to Iran, but has almost zero share of home appliance market there, while friends who tried to enter the market were blocked by Iranian authorities; all this, when Iran imports home appliances from various east Asian and European countries for less profit. When you are willing to sacrifice business and profits, that shows the level of commitment you have to that deep-seated hatred.
Now what is the point of this rant you say? You know who buys the most houses in Turkey and becomes a citizen that way, with their 7 child households all becoming "Turks"? Iranians. They have lost the no.1 spot to Russians and sometimes are no.3 behind Iraqis in the last year, but if you calculate from the start of this policy, Iranians are the main beneficiaries of citizenship through house purchases.
They hate Turks deep down. They will not show it to your face ever, because they are the masters of that oriental Janus face hypocrisy, they practically invented it (original Şark Kurnazları). But ask any Azerbaijani Turk from Iran and they will tell you Iranian Persians have one religion only and that's hating Turks, not Shiism (this may sound like exaggeration to you, but it permeates every facet of their existence). You take thousands of these people who openly in their social media hate Turkey so much to the point that they sympathize with PKK and any actor who is against Turkey (Armenia, Greece, you name it) and give citizenship en masse to these guys? You're practically forming a fifth column with your own hands in your own country
Note though that this obviously doesn't apply to Azerbaijani Turks who hold Iranian passports and may introduce themselves as Iranian. They love Turkey more than Turks. But this is a huge problem. You take in people whose allegiances lie with your state's enemies. Even if giving citizenships for investment is not a wrong policy, it shouldn't be applied en masse, for whole families and esp. without any background check into the person's ideologies and beliefs. A quick scroll through a person's social media reveals their true colors.
There's one huge difference though between how other countries do it and how we do it. We give citizenship to whole families when only one guy buys a house. In some other countries your spouse can also become a citizen, but even if your spouse becomes a citizen, if your (already born) children aren't born in the country they will not get citizenship.
Second big difference is, they give the permit or (rarely) citizenship for investment, only after you lived in the country for several years, can prove your loyalty to the country and you can also prove you understand the culture, laws and your civic duties as a citizen, in the form of passing a test.
One big problem that no one, not even people like Ümit Özdağ, brings up, is the allegiance of these new citizens. I know Iranians so I will tell you about them. Persian Iranians' (as opposed to Azerbaijani Turks, Arabs, Turkmen and Baluch in Iran) main "other" inside their own country are the Azerbaijani Turks which constitute the largest minority (Persians aren't a majority either, only probably a plurality; no official numbers exist). Unlike say Kurds in Turkey, Azerbaijani Turks in Iran held power in the geographical Iranian Plateau from around the year 1000 to 1900, with very short periods of Persian regional rule. When Persians took over the reigns of power in the twentieth century in a coup with the help of the British, they started creating a new national identity for the country which was, naturally for them, defined against those who had ruled the country for so long, i.e Turks. So the national identity of Persian Iranians is defined with a backdrop of hatred of Turks. Anybody who has lived in Iran and knows enough Farsi to surpass the surface level politeness and cordiality of social interaction to get to the bottom of the ideological basis of a people's outlook knows that Persian Iranians have a deep hatred of Turks of all kinds. Other than this, based on racist delusions of Aryan race, they see ethnicities such as Kurds or Armenians as basically Persians and consider them blood brothers. You can see this in their reaction to Turkey's operations in Syria, or Azerbaijan's war with Armenia. Their government tries (or at least tried up until a couple of years ago) to hide this hatred and attitude towards Turks, but if an ideology is prevalent among a people it will inevitably become state policy. Many don't know this but there is a shadow ban on any importer who tries to import stuff from Turkey to Iran, even if it is profitable for them to buy from Turkey instead of let's say Italy or South Korea. Turkey is right next to Iran, but has almost zero share of home appliance market there, while friends who tried to enter the market were blocked by Iranian authorities; all this, when Iran imports home appliances from various east Asian and European countries for less profit. When you are willing to sacrifice business and profits, that shows the level of commitment you have to that deep-seated hatred.
Now what is the point of this rant you say? You know who buys the most houses in Turkey and becomes a citizen that way, with their 7 child households all becoming "Turks"? Iranians. They have lost the no.1 spot to Russians and sometimes are no.3 behind Iraqis in the last year, but if you calculate from the start of this policy, Iranians are the main beneficiaries of citizenship through house purchases.
They hate Turks deep down. They will not show it to your face ever, because they are the masters of that oriental Janus face hypocrisy, they practically invented it (original Şark Kurnazları). But ask any Azerbaijani Turk from Iran and they will tell you Iranian Persians have one religion only and that's hating Turks, not Shiism (this may sound like exaggeration to you, but it permeates every facet of their existence). You take thousands of these people who openly in their social media hate Turkey so much to the point that they sympathize with PKK and any actor who is against Turkey (Armenia, Greece, you name it) and give citizenship en masse to these guys? You're practically forming a fifth column with your own hands in your own country
Note though that this obviously doesn't apply to Azerbaijani Turks who hold Iranian passports and may introduce themselves as Iranian. They love Turkey more than Turks. But this is a huge problem. You take in people whose allegiances lie with your state's enemies. Even if giving citizenships for investment is not a wrong policy, it shouldn't be applied en masse, for whole families and esp. without any background check into the person's ideologies and beliefs. A quick scroll through a person's social media reveals their true colors.
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