Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Turkey Related Subjects => Turkey Discussion Forum (Not Calis specifically) => Topic started by: lissa on February 20, 2020, 06:31:12 AM
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https://www.dailysabah.com/tourism/2020/02/20/turkey-to-allow-visa-free-travel-for-6-european-countries
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Hurrah !
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Fabulous news! Now maybe the airlines will also take notice and drop some fares...
Thanks for the post, @lissa
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This is great news and should boost tourism from the six countries. Hopefully members coming out this year haven't purchased their visas yet?
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Yep some good news there, agree on the airline flight cost, but I guess they must be selling or else they would come down? Market forces as the say.
Never understood why the costs are more expensive to fly back to UK?
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Great news! Will pay for the transfers!
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Hope they update the website. ;)
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Thanks Lissa that's great news. So it's still 90/180?
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That is Fantastic news !! about time something like this happened !!! :)
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Never understood why the costs are more expensive to fly back to UK?
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Never understood why the costs are more expensive to fly back to UK?
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Just spat out my coffee! Hahahaha!
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fantastic news
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Saving of around £28.Still 90/180 Bernie so you’ll have to chose those 3 months wisely
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Brilliant news. I was just about to apply for my visa.
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Never understood why the costs are more expensive to fly back to UK?
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A Tourist Trap😎😎😎😋😋😋
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Big Doug they don't want us to leave :D
KKOB love it! ;D
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Sooo..me being a bit thick, (as you are well aware)..
So there's NO fee??
We aren't going back to the £10 at the gate??
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Never understood why the costs are more expensive to fly back to UK?
(https://miro.medium.com/max/2560/1*ntV90C5eUGtAz8DahpT9Ng.jpeg)
Quite happy to be trap here, just need to sort the getting paid part out!
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The article states free entry for 90 days in 180 so visa free it may not be - maybe free visa? Otherwise it would be very difficult to monitor length of stays in a given period.
Great positive move though...
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They'll use the info read from your passport when it's scanned in and out.
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Logic suggests that.
I bet you will still need a visa though, even if it is free.
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It’s not reading that way:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/turkey/articles/turkey-to-offer-visa-free-access-to-british-holidaymakers/
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As I said previously, the British press may misinterpret "visa free" & "free visa". Let's just wait and see how it pans out...
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Does say on gov.uk that from march 2nd, British nationals travelling to Turkey for tourist or business purposes will no longer need a visa for visits of up to 90 days in a 180 day period.
Passports will presumably still be scanned and stamped on arrival and departure so this will show length of time spent in Turkey in a given period.
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Just to add to the above - The Foreign Office says: “The Turkish government advise that your passport should be valid for at least six months from the date you enter Turkey and that there is a full blank page for the entry and exit stamps.
Definitely one to keep an eye on as things always changing. This forum best place to get latest information.
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Here you go. Just been on the site and put in 3/3/20.
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Ok then - not like Turkey to reduce the amount of paperwork and red tape for anything. :)
Looks like I won’t be using my Irish passport anymore
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I'm being cynical, but it seems like a lot of income to be without. Even at the old £10 visa, approx 230 seats per plane.
( I know,..I googled it ;D) However many flights in each and every day...
I know they say don't look a gift horse and all that..but what's the catch??
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The cynic in me has to agree with you Bernie. We will have to wait and see what they have up their sleeve to surprise us with ???
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They'll recoup it through the 'hotel tax'. Plus, they'll not need to pay so much in wages to the visa clerks at the borders.
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Great news for me, paid for my transfers instead!
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I note that the uk gov site confirms no visas and Turkish site have updated the past 24 hours.
, BUT I see there are lots of new get your visa sites here just popped up, I expect loads of travellers who don't look out for the free visas will click on these sharks and get ripped off
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The 'fake' sites have always come-up at the top of a Google search. The Turkish government site has usually appeared at least 4 or 5 'hits' down the page. Hundreds of people have been caught-out by them in the past and will continue to be as you said Blueclad.
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Looks like I won’t be using my Irish passport anymore
Yay - Irish passports added to visa free as part of addition of remaining EU countries :D