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New online visa application for Turkey - e Visa

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A simple process at this address: https://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/ What is e-Visa? Go E-Visa is an endorsement that allows the bearer to enter Turkey. It replaces “sticker”- and “stamp-type” visas formerly issued at the border crossing. Applicants obtain their visa electronically after entering required information and making payment by credit card. After successful application, e-Visa is e-mailed to the applicant. Applicants must print out their e-Visa, show it to airport officials and customs officers and carry it with them at all times during the travel. E-Visa is only valid for tourism or trade purposes. For other purposes such as work or study, an application through our Embassies or Consulates must be submitted. Turkish authorities can deny entrance of a holder of e-Visa to Turkey in certain cases. Holders of visas issued by Turkish embassies or consulates are subject to the same procedure too, thus can be denied entrance. What do I...

Protection for property buyers in Turkey

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The Petition This petition is intended for delivery to the Turkish President & Prime Minister. "To the Turkish President Abullah Gul & Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan" We the undersigned respectfully wish to draw to your attention the abuse of property purchasing which currently exists within Turkey. There are a small number of Emlaks/Builders/and lawyers who collude to effect transactions with the intent of de-frauding would be purchasers of their money -and not delivering the Tapu and in some cases the Habitation certificates for these properties. In the worst cases they will "sell" these properties a number of times and dispose of the proceeds of these "sales" to ensure that they have no assets and cannot be made by the turkish legal system to repay the monies obtained. We would respectfully suggest that this would be much more difficult, if all such cases were enshrined in criminal law with severe penalties for those convicted; an...

Your mobile phone in Turkey. Can you use a Turkish Sim?

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As you know, roaming is the ability for a mobile phone user to automatically make and receive voice calls, send and receive SMS or access other services when travelling abroad. Turkish mobile operators, Avea , Turkcell and Vodafone , provide roaming services to visitors coming from the UK, in partnership with British operators. Therefore, you can use your mobile phones with British sim card in Turkey. Most of mobile services such as picture messaging, text messaging, fax/data and GPRS are available with Turkish networks. Please keep in mind that, if you pay monthly at least 24 hours before you leave...

Censorship in Turkey

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Something I try to keep away from concerning business. However, I have been having trouble accessing my online documents while running a legal business in Turkey. As many millions of users find the Google online documents system very useful, we use it to communicate with our business in the UK. I have come across this very worrying article which makes me think about how governments seem to be able to control the way we live our lives. Access to certain Google services blocked from Turkey Statement by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor, Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University, and Director of Cyber-Rights.Org. (lawya@cyber-rights.org) The situation in terms of Internet censorship has moved from BAD to WORSE in Turkey as the Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB) asked the Turkish Internet Service Providers to block access to certain IP addresses associated with YouTube. As it is well know access to YouTube has been blocke...