What changed, and when we checked it

Notarizing a lease: the 2026 statutory minimum is about 1,670 TL in fees, above every figure the site had printed

Renewing a residence permit: the window opens 60 days before expiry, and you can file until the permit's last valid day

The moving checklist, re-read against primary sources: passport validity, when permit fees are paid, the single-entry visa fee, the insurance rule, pet entry, the decision period, the tax number, home-country documents and eight prices

Prices the audit could not confirm were removed rather than restamped: the health-insurance range (broker averages that disagree by 3x), the accountant fee, lesson prices and the SIM price (operator pages and our SIM guide disagree until someone checks a store receipt). CHECKLIST_CHECKED_AT in fee-facts.js carries the date and facts-age-lint holds it to 60 days.

The per-country residence-permit harç: the official chart was read, the standard band is confirmed, and four more bands are on the site

The chart's link on the page 404s under normal URL encoding; the file is served only under the decomposed-Unicode (NFD) path, which is why the 4 Aug and 11 Sep audits could not reach it until that evening (the Wayback Machine's copy from March 2023 gave the encoding away). FACTS_VERIFIED_AT moves to 2026-09-11 with this entry: every constant in fee-facts.js now traces to a primary source read that day.

The overstay fine: the statute collects the residence harç for the overstayed period at double, and after the first month any started month counts whole — the doubling was missing and the month rule was hedged, so every fine the calculator showed was low by the whole harç

A figure change on a page that promised an email, dated after the notifier epoch, so the sender will offer it to everyone who saved the overstay page inside the window — which is the promise. The direction matters: until 11 Sep 2026 the page understated the fine, and understating a border fine is the expensive way to be wrong, because the reader finds out at the desk holding the cash they brought for the smaller number. The doubling clause has been in the tariff since 2001; nothing changed in the law, only in how carefully it had been read. Pinned by __tests__/overstay-doubling.test.js: card fee and visa harç undoubled, exempt band zero, 40 days billed as 2 months.

The overstay entry-ban tiers: the Göç İdaresi's own announcement, not a hedged copy of two law-firm tables

The two law-firm tables were copying this announcement; we had been citing the copies and hedging them. For a few hours on 11 Sep 2026 this entry and the page said every tier shared one condition and that the 7 Aug 2026 reader account (90-day ban at one day over, voluntary and paid by their account) could not be reconciled with the text. A verifier re-read the announcement: the second table gives exactly a 3-month ban for a short overstay to anyone outside the voluntary-and-paid route, and the account does not show which route the officer applied. The page now carries both tables and the account, and the under-3-months tier stays amber rather than green.

The Istanbul yellow-taxi tariff: the 20 July 2026 tariff replaces the February one that three pages kept printing as "verified" for seven weeks

The failure is the stamp, not the number. The 4 Aug 2026 re-verification missed a hike that had been in force for 15 days and wrote a fresh "verified" line over the old tariff, so for seven weeks the page told readers to "Memorize 65 / 43 / 210" while the meter ran on 72 / 48 / 230 — a reader arguing a fare off this page would have been wrong by about 10%, and would have lost the argument to the driver. Istanbul has revised the tariff twice this year; fee-facts.js now marks TAXI_IST as the constant most likely to be stale at every review. The same superseded numbers still sit in the chat's retrieval corpus (scripts/embed-rag.js) until it is re-embedded.

When the 120-day window for an unregistered foreign phone starts: from the day you enter Türkiye, not from the first Turkish SIM

The old wording pointed readers at a plan — keep the SIM out, keep the clock stopped — that does not exist, and someone who followed it would have found the phone blocked earlier than they had budgeted for. The fee (54,258 TL in 2026, IMEI_FEE_TRY) and the 120-day length were right the whole time; the error was the starting point, which is the part that decides whether a reader has four months left or two. The "blocking began 1 May 2026" detail had no source anywhere in the repo, so it went rather than being hedged.

The voluntary GSS premium quoted to foreigners was the citizens' rate — a quarter of what a foreigner pays

The correct constant had been in fee-facts.js since the 4 Aug 2026 audit, whose comment already said the 1,981.80 figure was the citizen premium — the healthcare page and the FAQ simply never read it. Four times is not a rounding error: a reader budgeting a self-sponsored year on the old number was short by about 71,000 TL. Same failure class as the MASAK entry of 17 Aug: the right number was in our own constants file and a prose page hand-typed a wrong one.

The residence-permit income bar: a published Göç İdaresi rule, not reported practice — and a family's bar is counted per member, not per adult

The hedge was the error. Every surface that stated this bar called it an office habit and told readers to expect variation, when the definition had been sitting in the government's own document list the whole time — the single-applicant sentence and the family sentence are in the same paragraph. The number was off by 13.25 TL, which nobody would have noticed; the family framing was off by half, which a couple planning a move would. One thing recorded rather than resolved: the family clause says "asgari ücret düzeyinde" without repeating "net"; fee-facts.js reads it as net, the figure the same sentence names for the single applicant. A reader asked for gross per member (33,030 TL) would be the report that settles it. The rule is printed under the tourism-purpose documents, so it is stated for that permit and no other; what stays reported is how strictly an individual office reads the statements behind it.

The residence-permit harç for the standard and "other" nationality bands: downgraded from a verified tariff to an estimate from a secondary schedule

Nothing on the page changed in amount; what changed is the claim made about the amount. The 4 Aug 2026 check had corrected this entry from exactly double the consultancy's figure and then stamped it "checked against goc.gov.tr" — but goc.gov.tr's readable text never contained it, so the stamp said more than anyone had done. FACTS_VERIFIED_AT was deliberately NOT advanced on 11 Sep for the same reason: the date moves when a human has read the chart, not before. Recorded here because a reader who budgeted off the old label was told the figure was verified when it was not, which is the opposite of what the stamp exists to promise.

The money-transfer reporting threshold on the banking FAQ was wrong, and wrong in a way that made people split transfers

Three errors stacked in one sentence: a TL threshold read as USD, a figure superseded in 2023, and the transfer-message rule mistaken for a reporting rule. It matters more than its size suggests because of what a reader DOES with it — someone who believes a transfer is auto-reported above a threshold splits the transfer to stay under it, and structuring is the behaviour anti-money-laundering rules are actually looking for. So the wrong number pushed people toward the one thing that draws attention. Found by a banking sweep on 17 Aug 2026, not by a reader. The correct figure had been sitting in our own fee-facts constants the whole time and the FAQ never read it.

How the overstay fine is paid, and two options nobody publishes

This is what the group post was for, and it worked better than the question asked. Two things arrived that were on no page anywhere: that the BAN and its length are told to you at that same desk, in the same conversation as the amount — everyone assumes you discover that the next time you try to fly in — and that settling on re-entry is something the officers OFFER. That second one retro-fits an account I had dismissed: a reader's wife could not pay on exit and paid months later on re-entry with no ban, which contradicted the tier tables the law firms publish, so I filed it as an anomaly. Two independent accounts and it is procedure. Still `reader` and it always will be: goc.gov.tr's visa-violation page says nothing about payment method at all, which I checked on the page itself rather than trusting a search summary that had wrongly attributed the answer to it.

Correcting my own correction about Papara, twelve hours later

This is on the record rather than fixed silently, because a correction we hide is the same class of failure as the newsletter we never sent. HOW IT HAPPENED, because the mechanism matters more than the mistake: I read the record up to 21 Jan 2026 and stopped, then published a present-tense claim about a company's regulatory status. The sources I used were real, dated and correctly cited — this was not a sourcing failure, it was a RECENCY failure, and gate 10 checks that a claim has a basis but never that the basis is still current. Two more things I had wrong in the same paragraph: the 21 Jan licence restoration came from a stay of execution by Ankara's 25th Administrative Court, not from the Central Bank reconsidering; and the company itself is not a criminal defendant — 25 individuals were indicted, and under Turkish law a company cannot be one.

Whether this site recommends Papara

Found by an independent source-check of the claim backlog. The contradiction was ours and it ran for months: our own scam guide lists Papara among the channels fraudsters in expat Facebook groups prefer, because those payments are hard to reverse — while the banking guide and the document guide recommended it for daily spending.

The claim that touristic renewal refusals rose in May 2025

The "May 2025" date traced to the publication date of a commercial permit agency's marketing page, on two mirrored domains — the same source category that already cost us the nationality claim. Goc Idaresi publishes no decision statistics, and its only official page on tourism-permit restrictions is dated 15.09.2020 and SUSPENDS one, so there was never an official tier to appeal to in either direction. The condition is real law; the trend was a guess repeated until it sounded like a fact.

How the overstay fine is paid at the border

Checking it found the published guidance split down the middle — some practitioner write-ups say cash only in lira with foreign cards refused, others say cash or card. Neither is assertable. The direction was chosen by consequence, not preference: carrying cash you did not need costs nothing, while trusting a card that is refused costs you your place in a queue at a border you are trying to leave. SCOPE CAVEAT, stated rather than hidden: the reader called it the "entry tax" at Fethiye port. At a small seaport that is plausibly the same window that takes an overstay fine, but we have not confirmed it is, so this entry is about the payment point rather than about one specific fee. She has been asked which desk it was; when she answers, this entry gets narrowed or split.

Where a foreign driving licence is exchanged

Our own error rather than a rule change — we were sending some readers to the wrong building. Recorded here because a reader who went there deserves to know why.

What makes a bank balance look borrowed

The old wording had no source anywhere in the repo and was steering people to prepare against a deadline that does not exist.

When a residence permit starts

Single first-hand report, so the copy hedges. Consequence of being wrong is renewing after expiry, which is why it is stated at all.

The single-entry visa fee receipt

Province strictness rankings

Whether nationality excuses you from a bank statement

Its only support was a commercial permit agency. It appeared twice, once inside a block that renders into FAQPage schema — the version most likely to reach someone packing a folder.

IMEI registration fee