Turkey is a country not used to foreigner residents very much. I can't talk much about it myself, but I am sure some of our members have things to share on this topic.

I am trying to get a residence permit in Istanbul. I have been told to go to the polis in Aksaray. The problem is that there are so many people who try to apply there that many people line up from 4am!! There must be somewhere else I can go to. I am currently living in the Sultanahmet area.

Hi,
Actually i dont understand why people more want to live in Turkey..
I think the visiters dont know very well Turkey out of Antalya, all of IStanbul anda Marmaris?
They just see sunbathing, sea etc.. but what about the rest of place in Tukey? Do you know very well?

Well....maybe yes,but I know the life in TR more than perfect!
But you are right....some of the people see only the funny side from the life in Turkiye...
The life in the big cityes is really different than the life in the small inside TR...
but I think if somebody really loves TR ,every problems can be cleared!!!!
Let's be optimists!!!!

I agree that any problem can be solved. No country has a perfect life or perfect system of administration. Once people take the time to see what Turkey has to offer they will find it difficult NOT to stay there There are so many interesting places: Bursa, Çanakkale, Samsun, Trabzon, and others.
And Turkish food, turkish music, Turkish hospitality .. do I need to give more good reasons to stay?!

I lived in Turkey for about a year. People say, it is difficult to live in a country with such a different culture and traditions but I wouldn't say that. There are lots of things we could adopt from turks. Say, their deep devotion to the country, to the history which they know so well. Did you notice how much they love their families, children? I'm not idealizing turkish society as it has both good and bad people as everywhere but getting to know Turkey is definitely a good experience.

i just wanted to learn your opinions...

It is true, that the things that come to our (toursit's) mind when we think about Turkey are the sea, the sun, beautiful landscape, exotic plants,friendly people and many other things that you think of when you dream about a perfect vacation.A lot of us don't stay long enough to encounter cultural shock and hardships of everyday life. We enjoy seeing new sites, new people, get aquanted with new culture, it is exciting and fun. When we leave Turkey we start missing it. Missing everything we fell in love with in a short period of time,but any sane person understands that living is not vacationing (at least for most of us), and in order to survive and live, we have to work, study, do routine things that make life boring. I love Turkey, it is the most beautiful place I have ever seen, I will try to come back as often as I can, but there is no Paradise on earth

Turkiye is my paradise. I went there in 2001 to antalya and me a man working as bar manager in the hotel i was at! We were friends for a good few months. kept in touch via letters and phone calls. I went back 6 months later to the same hotel where he was still working! And we got closer. I went to live in antalya 5 months later i know it was very sudden but i knew it was right!
We got engaged on june 15th 2002 and we got married on the 11th of september 2004 in nottingham england. We live in england now but i miss turkey so much! i had 2 good years living there. we will be going back to live there in the next couple of years.
And i just want to say that the culture is fantastic, the people fantastic, food wonderful and the history fasinating!!!
I think this web site is cool!!!

I'm afra8id that Antalya is not a good example of real Turkiye. Have u ever been to eastern Anatolia? I love everything in Turkiye, but the truth is that life there is hard. You see only sea sun and friendly people (what is absolutely true) but u don't see their everyday problems, for example with money, u don't know how hard they work, very often 12 hours a day... U probably lived in hotel so u have no idea how expencive is water in Turkiye, because they have general lack of water, it's very big problem in Istanbul... and so on so on...
On the other hans, Turks are like Poles they don't appreciate what they have in their own country.