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Visa from the UK
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10 Aug 2006 Thu 02:12 am |
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Last year when I went to Turkia, we got a visa at the airport in exchange for a crisp £10 note......However, I have just been looking on this site:
http://www.tourismturkey.org/visa.htm
and it says all non-US citizens need to apply for a visa BEFORE entering Turkia.......
Can someone please tell me this is wrong!!!
Also, it is less than 12 months since I last visited Turkia - will I have to pay £10 again this year?
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10 Aug 2006 Thu 02:31 am |
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hi well i was there at start of summer and no i didnt need to get visa before i went and yes you have to get a new visa even though you are travelling back within 12months, its only if you travel back within 3months then you dont have to buy new one
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03 Sep 2006 Sun 05:17 pm |
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03 Sep 2006 Sun 05:34 pm |
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You don't need to apply for a visa before you go... same aas before... get your visa upon arrival at the airport ... just hand over your crisp £10 note... and the visa is yours 
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03 Sep 2006 Sun 05:40 pm |
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It's incorrect. My mother and sister haven't got a Dutch passport, so they entered Türkiye with their British ones. Because they come from Holland, they didn't have to pay in pounds, but had to pay €15,-.
And this was just a month ago, so I don't think they changed it 
You do need to apply for a visa in advance if you're going to stay longer than the 3 months that you get from your multiple entry tourist visa.
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03 Sep 2006 Sun 05:43 pm |
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Me too, I travelled there just one month ago too.... just handed over £10 for the visa upon entry.... of course you are right about the multiple entry visa... this must be applied for before you go.
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03 Sep 2006 Sun 05:48 pm |
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Quoting IZMIR060406: Me too, I travelled there just one month ago too.... just handed over £10 for the visa upon entry.... of course you are right about the multiple entry visa... this must be applied for before you go. |
No no, your holiday-visa is a multiple-entry one
If you want that to be longer than 3 months, than you must apply in advance.
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03 Sep 2006 Sun 05:53 pm |
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 Sometimes, do you ever wish you never got involved in a conversation ?
I'm starting to confuse myself now .... OK Pay £10 upon entry for your holiday (short stay) visa for a stay of 3 months or less. If you stay any longer than 3 months Bod, thats when you have to apply for your visa before you go
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03 Sep 2006 Sun 05:59 pm |
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06 Sep 2006 Wed 12:36 pm |
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06 Sep 2006 Wed 01:17 pm |
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There is a difference in lenght of stay for people from different countries, but you still have to pay 15$ or 10euro or 10 pounds (it's 15 dollars because dollar is much cheaper than euro or pound). Cirizens of some countries ( like Americans) can stay with the viza bought at an airport for 3 months, some eg 1 month (like Polish) or even 2 weeks (eg. Ukrainians, if I remember well).
If you want to go for longer than 3/1 month, you must apply for a viza to Turkish embassy.
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06 Sep 2006 Wed 02:37 pm |
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I guess Greeks are lucky then, huh? We pay nothing to enter Turkia and we need no visa, for a limited period of time of course.
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06 Sep 2006 Wed 02:45 pm |
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Quoting sophie: I guess Greeks are lucky then, huh? We pay nothing to enter Turkia and we need no visa, for a limited period of time of course. |
And they even need a visa for islands that are closer to Turkish land than Greek land
You can practically swim to Chios from Çeşme!!
But indeed you're lucky And you can just go for a short time and then travel back to Greek border, and go back again
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06 Sep 2006 Wed 03:06 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: you can just go for a short time and then travel back to Greek border, and go back again |
What do you think I m doing?
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06 Sep 2006 Wed 05:05 pm |
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Quoting sophie: Quoting Deli_kizin: you can just go for a short time and then travel back to Greek border, and go back again |
What do you think I m doing? |
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06 Oct 2006 Fri 12:51 am |
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To clear things up.
You pay £10 pounds at the Airport and you have no problems.
A lot of Brits here stay for 3 months, then go on a day trip to Rhodes every 3 months and get a new one for another 3 months.
I have 5 years residency. I got it here after I arrived and paid my £10.
Do not bother applying for a visa if you want to stay longer than 3 months because when you get here you will be told you have to apply here and pay all the fees again.
The Pasaport Polis have quite a few people in there complaining that they have messed around in England getting a long stay visa and when they have arrived they are told to report to the Polis and when they do they find out they could have paid £10 at the Airport, then just applied for visa here and saved themselves the trouble in England.
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06 Oct 2006 Fri 01:13 am |
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i found out this as i landed and all i had was £20 and they kept the lot lol shit happens i guess.
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11 Oct 2006 Wed 01:16 am |
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11 Oct 2006 Wed 04:20 pm |
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yea ive done that before susie,usually people are only too happy to help.
just to raise another point,does anyone know how the security/customs procedures are once u land in istanbul.I am flying to istanbul Ataturk international airport and i have never been there before i was just wondering does anyone if its as easy as bodrum airport or are there any major differences? etc.
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11 Oct 2006 Wed 05:31 pm |
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Arriving at Ataturk is quite straight forward, get your visa before you go through passport control, the booths are on the left just before passport control - and watch all those people who dont know about it queue up and then get sent back  (sorry shouldn't laugh!)
Arriving at Ataturk is a different matter when leaving as there is baggage control as soon as you enter the airport and then another couple of time before you get on the plane. But i think this is quite normal for Turkish Airports.
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11 Oct 2006 Wed 05:53 pm |
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thanks for the info - i have also sent you a private message on the subject.
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