Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Turkey Related Subjects => Turkey Discussion Forum (Not Calis specifically) => Topic started by: kayakebab on November 01, 2012, 22:21:50 PM
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http://www.antalyacentral.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1917:important-new-passport-rules-for-entry-to-turkey&catid=921:news&Itemid=101
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It may be easier if they just told us all to wee off !
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What will they dream up next...
I bet this is dropped before season starts May 1st.
For the record, I have more Turkey entry/exit stamps than usable pages in my passport - I just checked. Luckily, they put up to 3 sets in each page. Had they needed a blank page for each one since I got the passport, I'd have no pages left.
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I also have a few pages with more than 1 stamp
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What I want to know that if they do bring this idiotic practice in after 2012 and you havent got a blank page, will you have to get a new passport?? This is a country that relies quite a bit on tourism and all they seem to want to do is turn them away......
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Another point is that the people with passports crammed full of stamps (from many countries, not just Turkey) are often businessmen - so they are going to turn them away at the airport? So much for seeking investment in Turkey...
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Was it April 1st yesterday in Turkey?
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Surely if you enter on a Tourist Visa and make three visits to Turkey under the 90/180 day multiple entry rule, they will have to make all entry and exit stamps on the page which contains your Visa sticker.
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Well I hope Stoop as got it spot on ;)
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That did cross my mind too but sadly it doesn't even appear to be a prank
(http://www.calis-beach.co.uk/fco.jpg)
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/europe/turkey
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http://www.antalyacentral.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1917:important-new-passport-rules-for-entry-to-turkey&catid=921:news&Itemid=101
Thanks for the info. It makes a lot of sense and brings the system inline with a lot of other countries.
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Does this rule apply to holders of Residency Permits? I can see an argument for why they might want a clean page for a Visitor Visa to facilitate easier calculation of time spent in Turkey. That said, there appears to be no consistency in the way the rules are being applied for the new 90/180 day Visa.
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Apollo
Thanks for the info. It makes a lot of sense and brings the system inline with a lot of other countries.
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I know this may read more aggressive than I mean it to be but so far you are the only poster who has welcomed this change.
Which other countries employ the 'fresh page' system?
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New Zealand has a system that enforces this. If you get a temporary work visa it is exactly the size of a passport page and you have to paste it in.
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Are all passports from all countries the same size then?
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Judging by the passports I have seen people of many nationalities hold in line at airports all over the world passports do seem to be the same size and I can confirm that many countries do indeed have a visa that is the size of a passport page and is stuck into the passport and then stamped in and out...
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Yes I suppose they all do seem to be around the same size and also they must have to fit into those scanners they check them with. It just never occurred to me that it was anything more than coincidence :)
Wait for Turkey to introduce the first 18" passport...
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There are more countries with this rule (India, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, long term visa for Thailand) but they all use full page visa stickers.
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And Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo all full page Visa's and if stamped on then you don't want to know what they would do with me.
In answer to another question , the way I read it this new rule does not include people with Residency, I think ..
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So that's it then - Turkey is aspiring to be like Congo and Angola.
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In answer to another question , the way I read it this new rule does not include people with Residency, I think ..
I hope you are right - the only reason I can see for them requiring a new page for every Visa is to make their calculations easier. If there is a valid Residency Permit I can't see why multiple stamps on a page would be a problem.
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As far as I recall, it has always been 1 page per stamp anyway (stamp as in sticky paper thing, not stamp as in inky pressed down thing). With residency there is of course no sticky paper stamp, just the entry/exit inky ones - which they seem to favour making in three sets to a page formation.
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In my passport I have a page with 2 old type visas, With 12 stamps on them! Showing in and out obviously, several times with no problems. I have just renewed my passport (Now different passport number) and my old passport has my entry stamp (with residence visa) and I will be going on holiday soon with my new passport but using the old passport entry stamp! This should be fun!
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Apollo
Thanks for the info. It makes a lot of sense and brings the system inline with a lot of other countries.
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I know this may read more aggressive than I mean it to be but so far you are the only poster who has welcomed this change.
Which other countries employ the 'fresh page' system?
This regulation covers all nationalities,not just Brits.
Hopefully, this will make passport checks quicker and easier, especially at istanbul.
The passport police will no longer have to search for the stamp and when they cannot find it give it back to you to find for them.
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Been going in and out of Turkey for 20+ years (multiple entry over the last 10 to 15 years) and have never been given my Passport back to find the stamp for the Passport Police.
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Same here, although it has taken them ages to find it sometimes.
On one occasion flying from Antalya, several more passport police came to look at my passport, then suited men :o - eventually they told me there was no record of my entry into Turkey this time. Of course there was, I even remembered them stamping it just weeks earlier I told them. But there wasn't...
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Never used to give entry/exit stamps a second thought but over recent years I make sure that we have been "stamped" in and out. Wouldn't like to be interrogated by the Turkish authorities.
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Posted by "Scunner";
"On one occasion flying from Antalya, several more passport police came to look at my passport, then suited men :o - eventually they told me there was no record of my entry into Turkey this time."
Maybe you weren't really there Keith, but just a "Pigment" of their imagination !! :-)
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I'd had an inkling you'd say that Gordy.
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Well I have had a colourful past :)
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Pity you had to stamp it out though.
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I have nothing to declare about that
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That's not your usual custom !
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I like to excise my right to silence
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Well, I s'pose you need a lot of excise to keep that snake-like figure of yours.
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Colourful Past Scunner??????How many Shades of Grey??????
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As I've said before, sadly I'm nowhere near as colourful as the rumours :)