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Gomez · Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 30

Someone told me last night that there is a new requirement/rule for people with 3 month Tourist visas here in Turkey. Normally, you can leave the country at the end of three months and then re-enter the next day. This girl told me that you have to wait 3 months before you can come back into the country and get a new tourist visa. Has anyone heard of this before? Apparantly it's valid for Bulgarians. This might just be a rumor going around. The Turkish Embassy webpage doesn't say anything about it however. Wondered if anyone else had heard something similar.

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

Mine's animated (cos l was envious of yours), but it's also quite small. Perhaps you could go for a small animated Kung Fu dude.

tvik · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 371 Location: here

a friend asked me if people could make visa runs indefinitly and i said yes, i think so... is this true?? what happens when you have 12 stamps over a three year period... don't they start to look at you funny?????

ya... that avatar is about as annoyings as demolition work in the apartment above you at 6am.

tvik · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 371 Location: here

just watched it again for a few seconds... it's REALLY annoying....

comrade in arms · Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 61

An ET teacher, who has a Russian passport, went to Syria to do a border run in April - and perhaps something else but that I don't know what. He hoped to come back within a week, so he left his belongings in his flat in Istanbul. However, he had to stay there for three months before he was permitted to re-enter the country. He is a head teacher now!

tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

Tvik, is it mine that's annoying you? Sorry love. I can change it if it bothers people.

Comrade my friend, your facts are a tad off. The person in question was a headteacher at the time when he had a little extra time in Syria. He accidently failed to realise that his residency permit had expireed. When he realised, he was told to do a visa run and then come back and get a new permit, so he decided to visit his friends in Damascus for a few days.
I think that he was told at the airport that he wouldn't be able to return to Turkey as punishment for three months, so he stayed in Syria for a couple months and Russia for perhaps one month. On the topic of Russia, he doesn't actually call himself Russian, but you would have to ask him about that as it's a bit of a story.
I would say that he may be far more qualified than most of us on this site for this field. He has beautiful English with only a slight accent. Though, l must say that his slight accent makes his English very attractive.

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

teacherdude · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 260

Tararu,

you are quite correct. Although, I believe that all three months were spent in Syria.

He actually thought he would only be out for a month. However, at the airport he was instructed it would be three.

Dude.