Or, if you prefer going the long way, read this guide first. We’re going to answer all the most common questions about these girls here, so it’s going to be useful for you. After that, you can still choose any girl you like, click on her profile, and start talking to her!
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Things to know before mail-ordering a bride from Turkey
- Right now, the best site with Turkish women is SakuraDate. It’s trusted, it’s popular (more than 250,000 monthly visits), and it has thousands of real young ladies from Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa, and Antalya.
- Turkish women are traditional but not too religious. They’re smart and educated. They are sometimes jealous but 100% loyal, and they love dating foreign men because they believe they make better husbands than men from Turkey.
- Online dating is the #1 option for meeting them. Offline dating is not as convenient and simple, but if you’re going to meet them offline, we highly recommend visiting such cities as Istanbul (the capital), Marmaris and Antalya (nightlife centers), and the cities of Cappadocia (Kayseri, Nevsehir) which are very beautiful and have a perfect romantic atmosphere.
- The average cost of getting a Turkish wife is around $4,900, but it depends on a lot of factors.
Turkish mail-order brides – who are these women?
- The average mail-order bride from Turkey is in her late 30s, she’s highly educated, and she has no children—only 4% of the brides from this country have children from their previous relationships.
- Most Turkish mail brides have never been married before. Only around 20% of them are divorced.
- They speak English quite well—more than half of them are at least Upper Intermediate English speakers. This, however, applies only to the girls from the biggest cities (on the other hand, the absolute majority of brides come from Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir).
- They are not stay-at-home housewives—the majority of them work as managers, teachers, or nurses.
Can you buy Turkish women for marriage?
No. It’s obviously not about “buying” a wife but about dating her, meeting her, and bringing her to your country. Buying a wife would be illegal in any country, not only in Turkey.
Is it legal to mail-order a Turkish bride?
Yes. More than 100 Turkish brides get married to American citizens every single year, so it’s 100% legal. Of course, your relationship must be legit and genuine, you must meet the minimum income requirements, and you must also be able to provide evidence of your relationship (photos, tickets, etc).
How to get a Turkish mail-order wife
- First, choose a website with Turkish girls for marriage. We recommend choosing SakuraDate because it’s the best option in the market today. However, you can do your own research, test the sites, and find a legit and reputable platform yourself. Just make sure it’s really legit and reputable—unfortunately, all those fake mail-order bride sites today are too good at creating a fake reputation. Read the reviews and always google the photos of the ladies you’re chatting with to make sure they’re real.
- Sign up for an account on that site. SakuraDate e only requires your email, name, and age—one minute after providing this information, your account will be created. Uploading a photo and filling your profile is very important, too, but you can do all these things later.
- Search for women and start chatting with the ladies. 100% of the modern mail bride platforms are premium-based, and SakuraDate isn’t an exception. The good news is that this site offers 20 credits to any new customer. With these free credits, you’ll be able to start chatting right after the registration, and you won’t need to pay until you run out of free credits! Of course, search tools are usually free to use. SakuraDate , for example, has 17 search filters, so finding a match here is definitely possible.
- Chat, communicate, and build trust. Use all those extra features, exchange photos, send videos, and send gifts, of course—all these tools will increase your chances of building a happy relationship with a foreign girl.
- Meet her in person and bring her to the US. Save all the tickets and photos—they’ll be useful at the next step (you’ll need to provide them to the USCIS officers). Make sure you know each other well—your relationship must be 100% genuine and real. What’s probably even more important, it must look 100% genuine for the USCIS officer who will interview your bride during her visa application process. If everything is ok and she gets her K-1 visa, she can enter the US where you’ll be able to marry her.
How much does it cost to mail-order a Turkish Bride?
Look, first of all, you’ll need to chat with them. Online dating is the best option you have, as you already know, so you’ll have to start with it. How much does it cost?
Let’s take SakuraDate and calculate.
This website, like the absolute majority of today’s mail bride platforms, has a credit system. This means that the amount of money you’re going to spend depends solely on you: you can save money by spending less time in a live chat, for example, and you can easily spend more if you spend more time talking to the ladies.
From our experience, men usually spend around 300 minutes per month chatting and send around 10-15 emails to different ladies (per month). 300 minutes of chat and 15 emails cost 900 credits on SakuraDate.
1 credit costs $0.2 if you purchase the largest package available, so 900 credits will cost you around $180—that’s how much the average user would spend on this site. However, you can easily control your spending, as we’ve said.
For example, if you prefer live chat and don’t like sending emails, you can focus on this messaging tool—in this case, you’ll only pay 600 credits for 300 minutes of chat ($120). You’ve got the idea.
Now, let’s see how much you’ll pay for a two-week trip to Turkey. Why two weeks? Because from our experience, that’s the minimum required amount of time a man needs to make the decision. We know a lot of men who married their foreign brides after spending 14 days with them, but we know only a few men who married foreign ladies after spending 7 or fewer days in their countries.
So, a two-week trip to Turkey cost breakdown:
- Tickets—$600
- Hotel—$600
- Food and transportation—$400
- Dates, gifts—$800
- Total—$2,400
That’s not all, of course. If you want to bring your Turkey bride to the US, you’ll also probably have to pay for her visa.
- The K-1 visa costs $940—$675 for Form I-129F (petition) and $265 for Form DS-160 (application). Your bride will also need to pay for the medical exam. which usually costs around $100-$200.
- Then, there’s the green card. When your bride gets her visa, she visits the US and you marry her. After that, she will need to go from her immigrant status to her resident status—the process is called Adjustment of Status and the fee for it is $1,225.
- Total—around $2,300.
So, the total “cost” of a Turkish bride is around $4,900.
Why Turkish women become mail-order brides
- American men are more friendly, smiling, and open-minded. This is a very common reason why young Turkish girls in their 20s become mail brides. They often think that Westerners (and Americans in particular) are much more interesting to talk to, fun, open, and tolerant than Turkish men of the same age. Which is not too far from the truth, really.
- The second reason why they become mail brides is very classic and very common: it’s loyalty. A lot of Turkish mail-order brides are sure that Western men are more loyal to their partners. Taking into account some special features of Turkish culture (like their toxic masculinity and patriarchal social norms), this is also very close to the truth. Unlike Westerners, Turkish men cheat often, they cheat with pride, and they don’t even think that it’s something bad.
Common myths about Turkish women for marriage
Wondering if Turkish women for marriage are really as religious as some say? Want to know whether they are really spoiled by Turkish men and therefore very hard to date? Read this—we’re going to talk about the most common stereotypes about these ladies here.
They are extremely religious, strict, and conservative
One fact for you: Turkey is the country with the most sexual partners, and although it’s the male population of the country that is the main contributor to this, we believe that it’s still not what you expect from a Muslim country. That’s probably the only thing you need to know about their “strict, conservative religious beliefs and traditions.” A country with strict religious beliefs can’t be the top country in the world with the most sexual partners, right?
For most girls in Turkey, living together before marriage is not a taboo, as well as having sex before marriage. This is true even considering the fact that 99% of the population of the country is Muslim—so it’s not like it’s a radical Islamic state where you need to worry about approaching local women, wearing shorts, and drinking alcohol in nightclubs. Even the older generations are ok with their daughters dating foreigners!
They are unfriendly
We’ve heard this one from those who tried to approach Turkish girls on the streets and got a “no” from them. Well, as you probably understand, it’s not so simple. Yes, meeting local women on the streets is a very bad idea because it’s just not how it works in this country—they are not used to it, and they will most likely reject you if you start talking to them.
But does it mean they’re unfriendly or cold?
No. Once you get to know your Turkish woman better, you’ll be surprised by how warm, soft, and caring she is. Just take it slow, don’t rush, and be respectful.
They are very controlling
Well, they can be. The problem is that their culture is misogynistic, their society is very patriarchal, and their men are not so loyal to them, so obviously, a lot of Turkish wives have certain problems with trusting men. This, in turn, can lead to them being too jealous and too controlling sometimes—it’s all about insecurity and bad previous romantic experience.
But just like with the previous myth, it’s all about time. Give your Turkish girlfriend time, show her that she can trust you, do not provoke jealousy, be open, focus on honest and transparent communication, and she won’t need to control every aspect of your life anymore.
They are too romantic and not practical at all
This stereotype is pretty similar to the one a lot of people have about Korean women. You know why?
Because Turkey has an extremely successful TV series industry, and their soap operas are very popular both in Turkey and in neighboring countries. The situation is pretty similar to the one they have in Korea, with hundreds of series produced every year. Some people even think that Turkish brides are exactly like the heroes of those operas—extremely loud, gossipy, jealous drama queens.
But it’s not true.
We don’t want to say they’re 100% down-to-earth and pragmatic, of course. When they love, they love unconditionally. They care for their husbands and support them, and of course, they love romantic gestures and surprises. They are as romantic as women from any other neighboring country, and probably much more romantic than the ladies from Western Europe and the United States. Just don’t expect that soap-opera-like behavior from them because that’s not what they are.
It’s hard to date them…
…Because they have overly high standards. That’s a very popular belief among those who have met Turkish men at least once, especially when we’re talking about meeting them in an informal setting. They are really romantic and very passionate. They can actually impress a woman, they know how to attract ladies, and they are extremely confident. Let’s be honest, such a combination sounds really great, and if it’s 100% true, competing with Turkish men would be almost impossible.
But it’s not the whole story. In fact, Turkish men can be quite good when it comes to romantic gestures, but they are not that perfect when it comes to more serious relationships. Problems with loyalty, domestic abuse, patriarchal views on gender and family roles—very often, local men are just not what most Turkish ladies need. They may be good at saying compliments, but when it’s time to build a family based on mutual respect and loyalty, a lot of Turkish brides prefer Western men because they are simply better at it.
So, approaching and impressing them might be slightly difficult because yes, they might be spoiled by local men. But once you start building a relationship and not just dating them, there’s no competition you need to worry about.
Getting a Turkish bride is easy. We’ll show you how.
Turkish women are great, aren’t they? Traditional but not too conservative, friendly and open-minded, very loyal and very marriage-oriented… Turkish women are a perfect choice for every man interested in international dating, and lucky for you, there are thousands of them on specialized dating websites like SakuraDate. Join now, get free credits, and start chatting for free—finding love has never been easier!
Written byJohn Millerstone, Author
We decided to create this project because we’re tired of the situation in the industry. 10 years ago, there were like 40% good sites and 60% bad ones. Today, the ratio is more like 10% to 90%, and that’s not how I want it to be. I mean, it kills me that when an American man types “mail order brides” on Google, there is a 90% possibility that he won’t even find a good dating site, let alone find a bride. I want to change that.
Edited byPhilippe Berry, Contributing Editor
I'm going to tell you everything I know, mes amis. We'll spot online dating charlatans, test the dating sites together, and, of course, with me, you'll learn everything about traveling—I have had 33 trips since 2009, and I think traveling is the best part of online dating. I'll tell you how to save money, how to enjoy a trip, and how to have a good date in a foreign country. I know something about that, too!
