Turkish passport

For the 2011 documentary film, see Turkish Passport (film).

Turkish passport
The front cover of a current Turkish biometric passport
Date first issued	1 June 2010 (biometric passport)
Issued by	Turkey
Type of document	Passport
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility requirements	Turkish citizenship

Turkish Passports are issued in accordance with the Passport Act (No. 5682) from 15 July 1950^[1] to Turkish citizens to travel abroad. Citizens of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) are also eligible to apply for a Turkish Passport if they wish to, as well as the TRNC passport or the Republic of Cyprus EU passport.

Passports are issued by the Turkish Police (or by the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Nicosia for Turkish Cypriots) and applications are filed at police stations which have a passport office. Passports issued since 1 June 2010 are biometric and valid for up to 10 years (5 years for special passports).

Ranked by the World Passport Index, a Turkish Passport was ranked equal 29th with Trinidad and Tobago.

Types

Regular passport (Turkish: Umuma mahsus pasaport), after 2010 also referred to as Maroon Passport (Turkish: Bordo pasaport). It is issued to^[2] Turkish citizens who don't qualify for any of the following passport types.

A page from a Turkish biometric passport

Special passport (Turkish: Hususi pasaport), also referred to as the Green Passport (Turkish: Yeşil pasaport) allows the bearer to travel visa-free to some countries.^[3] As opposed to the regular passport, it is exempt from the passport fee and is only subject to the booklet fee (TRY87.5 [c. USD30] as of 2015).^[4] It is issued to;^[5]
- Former members of the National Assembly
- First, Second or Third grade public servants.
- Retired First, Second or Third grade public servants.
- Mayors
- The spouse of special passport holders
- Unwed and unemployed children of special passport holders who live with their parents until they turn 25.
Service passport (Turkish: Hizmet pasaportu), also referred to as the Grey Passport (Turkish: Gri pasaport). It is issued to;^[6]
- People who do not qualify for the Special or diplomatic passports, however, are assigned to travel abroad for official and/or government related purposes.
- National athletes
- Turkish citizens working for International organizations of which Turkey is a member
- Employees of the Red Crescent
- Employees of the Turkish Aeronautical Association
- Spouse of the service passport holders
- Unwed and unemployed children of the service passport holders who live with parents, until they turn 25.
Diplomatic passport (Turkish: Diplomatik pasaport), after 2010 also referred to as Black Passport (Turkish: Siyah pasaport). It is issued to;^[7]
- Members of the National Assembly, and the non-PM ministers
- Head judges of the judicial organs, and their deputies
- Diplomats
- Negotiators that are to deal with international issues
- Spouse of the diplomatic passport holders. However, this passport can only be used when accompanying the primary passport holder.
- Unwed and unemployed daughters, and sons younger than 18 years of age of the diplomatic passport holders who live with parents. However, this passport can only be used when accompanying the primary passport holder.

Biometric passports

Turkish Biometric passports (Turkish: Biyometrik pasaport), compatible with the new ICAO standards, have been available since 1 June 2010.^[8] Applications for the new passports can be submitted online through the government's website .^[9] Passports are then sent via mail.

The biometric passports have different colour covers; regular passports in maroon and diplomatic passports in black, in compliance with ICAO standards.^[10]

Fees

A Turkish passport has been one of the most expensive passports in the world for many years. As a result of increasing public demands, the cost of ordinary passports was almost halved in June 2010. Despite the massive reduction, the Turkish passport remains the most expensive passport in the world.^[11] The passport law was then amended to increase the maximum validity of a passport from 5 to 10 years. It currently costs TRY620.60 (c. USD215) for a 10-year passport, including the compulsory booklet fee. ^[12] In addition to the expensive passport prices, the Turkish state charges TRY15 (c. USD5) from Turkish passport holders (excluding ship and aircraft crew, those who live abroad and those with dual citizenship) every single time they leave Turkey.

Visa requirements for Turkish citizens

Main article: Visa requirements for Turkish citizens

Countries and territories with visa-free or visa-on-arrival entries for holders of Turkish passports

Republic of Turkey

Visa free

Visa issued upon arrival

Electronic authorization or eVisa

Visa required

Holders of an ordinary Turkish passport may travel without a visa, or with a visa received upon arrival, to 100 countries, as of 2014 according to the Visa Restrictions Index.

On 29 September 2011, the EU Commissioner of Interior Affairs, Cecilia Malmstrom indicated that the visa requirement for the Schengen area will eventually be discontinued. Visa liberalization will be in several phases. These will include the reduction of visa paperwork, more multi-entry visas, and extended stay periods.

Gallery

Current passports

Turkish Biometric Passport cover since 1 June 2010
Turkish Biometric special passport cover issued in January 2012
Diplomatic
Service passport

Historic passports

Listed chronologically:

1927 - Republic of Turkey, Regular passport, cover
1937&1934 - Republic of Turkey, Diplomatic passports, covers
1943 - Republic of Turkey, Regular passport, cover
1954 - Republic of Turkey, Regular passport, cover
1960 - Republic of Turkey, Special passport, cover & first page
1965 - Republic of Turkey, Regular passport, cover
Republic of Turkey, Regular passport cover until 31 May 2010
Republic of Turkey, Special passport, cover until 31 May 2010

References

↑ "Pasaport Kanunu" (in Turkish). Regulations-Ministry of Justice. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
↑ (Turkish) [ İSTANBUL EMNİYET MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ ] - Bordo Pasaport
↑ http://www.mfa.gov.tr/turk-vatandaslarinin-tabi-oldugu-vize-uygulamalari.tr.mfa
↑ http://www.epasaport.gov.tr
↑ (Turkish) [ İSTANBUL EMNİYET MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ ] - Kimler Hususi (Yeşil) Pasaport Alabilirler?
↑ (Turkish) İSTANBUL EMNİYET MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ; - Hizmet Pasaportu
↑ (Turkish) [İSTANBUL EMNİYET MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ; - Diplomatik Pasaport
↑ http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/ekonomi/14030770.asp?gid=373 (Turkish)
↑ http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/14368911.asp
↑ http://www.hurriyet.de/haberler/gundem/363040/cagdas-pasaport-yolda (Turkish)
↑
↑ http://www.radikal.com.tr/Radikal.aspx?aType=RadikalDetay&ArticleID=1003955&Date=22.06.2010&CategoryID=80

Passports

Africa

Central

CEMAC	Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of the Equatorial Guinea Gabon

Angola Congo, Democratic Republic of the São Tomé and Príncipe

Eastern

Northern

Southern

Western

Mauritania Saint Helena¹

ECOWAS	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Americas

Caribbean

Anguilla¹ British Virgin Islands¹ Cayman Islands¹ Cuba Dominican Republic Montserrat¹ Turks and Caicos Islands¹

CARICOM	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Dominica Grenada Haiti Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago

Central

Costa Rica Panama

CARICOM	Belize

Central America-4	El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua

North

South

Chile

Andean	Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Peru

CARICOM	Guyana Suriname

Mercosur	Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela

Asia

Central & North	Afghanistan Kazakhstan⁶ Kyrgyzstan Russia³ Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

East	People's Republic of China Hong Kong¹¹ Macao¹¹ Japan Korea, North Korea, South Mongolia Republic of China (Taiwan)⁸

South	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

Southeast	Brunei Burma Cambodia East Timor Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

West	Abkhazia⁵ ⁹ Armenia⁷ Azerbaijan⁵ Bahrain Cyprus⁷ Egypt⁸ Georgia⁵ Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ⁹ Northern Cyprus⁷ ⁹ Oman Palestinian Authority Qatar Saudi Arabia South Ossetia⁵ ⁹ Syria Turkey⁴ United Arab Emirates Yemen

Europe

Other Europe

European Union

Oceania

Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Islands¹ Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

International organizations
Defunct passports
Passport types

International organizations	European Union laissez-passer International Committee of the Red Cross Interpol United Nations laissez-passer

Defunct	British Indian Empire¹ Czechoslovakia East Germany Korean Empire League of Nations refugee (Nansen) Mandatory Palestine Rhodesia Soviet Union¹² UNMIK Travel Document Yugoslavia

Types	Biometric Camouflage Diplomatic Fake Hajj Horse Internal International Machine-readable Pet Travel document alien refugee stateless person World

¹ A) Includes Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, and former British plantations, crown colonies, colonies, protectorates, protected states, mandates, trust territories and other British possessions.
B) The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are not part of the European Union, but Manxmen and Channel Islanders are citizens of the European Union; the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and Manxmen and Channel Islanders themselves (unless they qualify and apply for recognition of a change in status), are however excluded from the benefits of the Four Freedoms of the European Union.
C) The Government of the United Kingdom also issue passports to British nationals who are not British citizens with the right of abode in the United Kingdom and who are also not otherwise citizens of the European Union.

² Open border with Schengen Area.

³ Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here.

⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Turkey has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace.

⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus.

⁶ Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Kazakhstan has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe.

⁷ Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe.

⁸ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and Western Asia. Egypt has a small part of its territory in Western Asia called Sinai peninsula.

⁹ Partially recognized.

¹⁰ Not recognized by any other state.

¹¹ Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China

¹² The Soviet Union was a transcontinental country located in Eurasia

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