Another option if you are visiting is to get an International Cheque drafted, made out to yourself, banks charge around £20 for this type of cheque and you can then deposit it at your bank in Turkey, they will take upto 20 days to cash it into your account but they will not charge you to do this and that's it £20 flat.I do this cheque route now via Lloyds and ING as I also got stung on additional handling charges when using the old method and they also charge more if you transfer higher sums, think the last time I did it they charged me £35 in UK another £43 in Turkey by the middle bank and the recieving bank waived their fee luckily, still £78 to transfer money is ridiculous!