The Good Old Days

[JohnF]

Especially as you repeated it five times...

JF

[Colwyn]

By the reports posted it doesn't seem that the holiday makers needs much cheering up.

[davybill]

Especially as you repeated it five times...

JF

It was if u missed it the first time,it was if u missed it the first time. it was if u  missed it the first time,ect. ect.

[teetee]

We flew back on the evening of the coup and only found out about it looking at the BBC news waiting for the in-laws luggage at Gatwick.

We had 10 glorious days. Some lovely food, great weather, great fruit and vegetables from the market and most importantly an early morning pancake before the market got going......heaven

One particularly poor meal, but what would you expect if you go to watch England try and play football

Ovacik was reasonably busy with quite a large amount of Turkish holiday makers.

Managed to get to Patara but fur the first time ever didn't manage the beach in Olu Deniz although did manage a Pide at Kumsal!!

Go and enjoy as I am sure it will be as good as in the past.

[MrT]

Went In May and looking to book again for October. We usually travel around when staying in Oludeniz a night in Dalyan or Kalkan etc when out there so I presume we will need to carry our Passports. if there are police checks.

[Colwyn]

I'm not entirely happy about taking my passport with me all the time when I'm out and about. Before the "coup" it was suggested that a photocopy (with original back at hotel/apartment) or photo-ID driving licence would be OK. Any info on whether that would be acceptable now would be helpful.

[kevin3]

  I've always carried colour copies of license,passports,tapu, ect for banks, utilities, car rental, and never had a problem.

  I have been stopped at the Ovacik road checkpoint with no problems. If there is very little change in the resorts at the

  moment I would have thought copies would suffice.

[JohnF]

Out and about locally in a tourist area I don't see much wrong with photo ID and a photocopy as before - worst case scenario is you may be taken back to apartment/hotel to produce original passport.

If you're leaving the area, e.g. going to Kalkan or Saklikent then for the time being I think it advisable to carry your passport.  All it takes is for one individual to decide to apply the rules (Jandarma or Polis) and you could be in for an uncomfortable few hours. 

JF

[jackstee]

It has been mentioned before but I will remind all of us again.
By law you are supposed to carry ID. A quick visit to Yacob or Notary will get you a notarized copy of your passport which is acceptable.
If you were in an accident an ID copy on your person with a contact phone number could save your life.

[Liz 101]

As a tourist, you wouldn't need to have your passport notarised & at about 250tl a pop, it's an unecessary expense. I had a colour photocopy done , which I had laminated to carry around with me. Total cost around 10tl