Opening a bank account

[banker]

I can get your tax numbers for you  
no problem  

[Mr. Tibbs]

Thanks Banker

I will send you an email.

[karaokemark]

quote:Originally posted by banker

I can get your tax numbers for you  
no problem  

I always worry when a Turkish person says problem yok, because you know nothing is straight forward here  
that said If anyone can Alper can he is a good lad
Mark

[banker]

thank you very much Mark  

[pookie]

Alper - so if we opened a GBP account and a lire account with AKbank in Fethiye, would we be able to transfer money in and out on line from the UK ?

We are in a similar position to Mr Tibbs in that we have two accounts in Turkey (£ and Lire) but to credit money from the UK costs a lot of money and we can't gain online access.   At the moment a friend in Fethiye has a cash card for our UK account and takes Lire out of the cash machine to put into our Turkish Lire account so that we don't incurr ridiculous transfer charges.......surely there must be a simpler way !!

[Mr. Tibbs]

AND if we had an account in our names there, could we pay all of our utility bills by direct debit, for instance, the council tax and the road tax.  We wont be out there until June, so I am assuming that we will be hit with large penalties for late payment.
By the way, thankyou Banker for your emails, we hopefully will see you in June.

[grahamturner09]

You can only put electric on direct debit

[littlereddevil]

electricity and water

[mercury]

Yes now water but only with some banks. I notice today on the news that the owners of Fortis Bank have doubled their profits. They are the biggest Bank in Europe.

[captainjon]

And also pay any monthly maintenance charges,also telephone bill, also adsl,virtualy all ones monthly commitments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!