First, let me say that I am not stupid, nor am I a child, but after spending nearly an hour in the Passport Police office yesterday, I am now questioning my sanity. Having lived here for 5 years, and having taken out residency for the first 2 years, we let it lapse as me and the other half, go back to England occasionally, so just did the 3 month visa. However, we have decided to take advantage of the new cost for residency. Off we go to Passport Police in Fethiye, where we arrived at 12.40pm. There we 2 officers in there (1 male, 1 female) just chatting. We asked for a form and were told to come back at 1.00pm. We sat outside and waited. At 1.00pm we were joined by a few more people waiting for forms. We all went in and were told to wait for another officer. After 10 - 15 mins another woman officer came in. By this time everone was getting irate. When I was was finally dealt with, the 2 female officers demanded to see me and the wifes passports. Then she got the forms out and asked how many years we wanted residency for. As we had not decided, she then snatched the forms from us and shouted in turkish to us, as though we were naughty children. We tried to explain that we had residency in the past, but neither of them could speak english,. Luckely, there was an english woman there who could speak turkish, and she explained this to them. They then demanded to see our blue books, which we said were back at our apartment. After much shouting from the 2 officers, the english woman said that according to the Passport police we did not have fill in any forms, but to bring our blue books in where they will stamp them. Does anybody know if this is a new thing? I know that a lot of english are now doing their residency, causing extra work for the authorities, but I felt we were treated like second class citizens. As a retired police officer myself, I think that on the whole their atitude stinks
