ı want to ask ıt to our foreign friends..we can speak and share a lot of things on here. Tahnx to turkishclass for ıt..But u can tells a lot of story about turkey..But we can tell only little..Cause of we have visa problem about coming to yours countries..What do u think about restriction of travel..?ıt must be..or there are freedom of travelling..??

u can just say bence de..like yeh ACCORDING TO ME me too..dunno bout ur one :-S

I think that the restrictions are so unfair and I hope they would be cancelled soon so you can travel freely like anyone else

and you can say: kabul ediyorum

It is really unfair that it is so hard for turkish citizens to even go on holiday in other countries. It took me and my husband four months to get a visa for going to my home country the first time.

I'm curious if any of you (Turks) have had to pay 75 ytl for the Turkish government when you go abroad? Apparently you have to do it everytime.

Personally, I think the restrictions are rather silly.

Of course restrictions are needed, but the extent to which these restrictions are enforced I see as ridiculous... for someone to visit me only for a week we have had to go through so much paperwork and complication...

I could understand this if England was not riddled with so many illegal immigrants scrounging off of our government and giving our country absolutely nothing in return...

I don't see how one person visiting me for a week needs to analysed and complicated any more than allowing the lazy idiots into our country which we do!
My opinion- it's unfair to overcomplicate some things which do not neccessarily need to be complicated, whilst handing out homes, luxuries and money to undeserving people.

...Just my opinion!

Of course there should be freedom of travel! If I can travel around almost all the world without any problems, because most visa are just formalities (only like Iran, Saoudi Arabia etc I need lots more) why shouldn't someone from Turkey be allowed to do the same? We are talking about a visit, a holiday, not emigration!

i think most most of Europan countries very selective about visa for some counntries while our doors wide open for the foreingers,thats really big shame of our goverments and politicans..

and its really shame been treated as a second or 3th class person when you want to travel..

thats such a big paradox,they trying to teach democracy to all world while theitself restricting many rights to foreigners??

It is a stupid thing, again. But there is a little solution: some countries do not have this visa stuff for Turkish nationals. I have to admit, a lot of them are (too) far away, and some of them I never would like to visit but some countries are really beautiful. And not all are extremely (more) expensive than other (West) European countries.

Here is the list you do not need a visa for: Andorra / Argentina / Bahamas / Bahrain / Barbados / Burkina-Faso / Burundi / Cameroon / Chad / Chile / Comoros / Costa Rica / Djibouti / Dominican Republic / Ecuador / El Salvador / Eritrea / Estonia / Gabon / Gambia / Ghana / Guatemala / Guinea / Honduras / Iceland / Indonesia / Ivory Coast / Jamaica / Japan / Croatia /Malawi / Malaysia / Mali / Malta / Monaco / Mauritania / Morocco / Myanmar / Nepal / Niger / Nigeria / Peru / Rwanda / Senegal / Sierra Leone / Singapore / Sri Lanka / Swaziland / Thailand / Togo / Tunisia / Uganda / Uruguay / Vietnam / Zaire / Zambia

I am in the same position susie.Its like i feel i am being blamed for the policies in my country (England) i have no direct control over.Really frustrating.

If you read what i actually wrote is says ''no direct control'' meaning i can vote as much as i like and i do but thats still not direct control.At the end of the day i am not the politician,that was my point.Also i would like to point out that i am not apathetic towards politics i am currently undertaking a degree at university strongly connected to it.
I am also very aware of the reasons for such policies on immigration i.e. people coming from some countries on a short term holiday basis and then just 'forgetting' to go back.Surprising how informed a person can be if they take an interest isnt it!

I think that typically it's really hard to get a visa the first time, but next time you want to go abroad it's a lot easier because they know they can 'trust' you.
We don't even need to give them a security note from the bank anymore.

Hey this is like another day at work.. hehe

I remember applying for my x's settlemtent visa it was soo easy. then applying for family member visitor visa for his mum and dad to visit first time it was not too bad...second time was a bit harder but they got it for 12 months instead of the 6 months maximum period..then applying for his brother to come over ( visitor visa again) they refused it! yet had all the correct info etc; they said our property was too small ( take into account that it was the same as the time we had his mother and father)!!
I work for the home office and was outraged byt this, i appealed the decission and took it to high court here in the UK. We got our visa..the judge agreed that his brother was disgriminated against because of his age..i wonder why they dont like single young males coming into the UK?lol.

I have since presented a formal compaint to the IND about national visa applications.. baised on the fact that young single male/females and copules applying for spouse visa when there an age gap ( particularly the woman being older) are neally always refused first or second time.

They are saying that they are looking further into this case, and that they intend to ammend requirements.!

yeah right liying toads!!

anyway...i just guess some of us are unfortunate and that hopefully it wont always be like this...dont give up if you are refused..if you given what was asked for and you can afford to accomodate someoone without recourse to public refunds make sure you appeal-- may be a long process but saves paying again and re-applying!!

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