Turkey visa requirements
The rule for your own passport, from Turkey's official immigration page, with the date it was last checked. The same answer for every guide in Turkey: Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya, Bodrum, Pamukkale, Ephesus & Selçuk and 24 more.
No visa neededup to 90 days
Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Brazil, Argentina, Chile
90 days within any 180-day period.
e-Visa requiredup to 90 days$43-$60
United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Taiwan, South Africa, India
Applied for online in minutes. Buy it only from evisa.gov.tr — the lookalike sites charge several times the real fee.
Visa required in advance
Every other passport
How to get it: The e-visa is issued online at evisa.gov.tr, usually within an hour. Print it or keep it on your phone; airlines check it at the gate.
Entry rules change often and depend on your passport, your route and the purpose of the trip. Confirm on the official page before booking.
The guides in Turkey
IstanbulTurkeyTwo continents, three empires, one enormous city
CappadociaTurkeyTwo hundred balloons at dawn over a landscape carved from volcanic ash
AntalyaTurkeyA Roman old town on a cliff, with the Taurus mountains behind the beach
BodrumTurkeyA white town around a crusader castle, and a gulet waiting in the bay
PamukkaleTurkeyA hillside of white mineral terraces, with a Roman spa city on top of it
Ephesus & SelçukTurkeyThe best-preserved classical city on the Mediterranean: a marble street down to a library facade, a theatre for twenty-five thousand, and a country town beside it
Fethiye & ÖlüdenizTurkeyA working harbour town with Lycian tombs above the rooftops, the most photographed lagoon in Turkey next door, and paragliders coming off a 1,900-metre ridge all day
Çeşme & AlaçatıTurkeyA windsurfing bay, a stone village of blue shutters and bougainvillea, thermal beaches and the smartest summer crowd in Turkey
KaşTurkeyA white town on a cliff over water clear enough to see the wreck below it: the diving capital of Turkey, a sunken city offshore, and Greece twenty minutes away
SideTurkeyA Roman temple on a headland with the sea behind its columns, a theatre for fifteen thousand, and a beach either side of the ruins
AlanyaTurkeyA Seljuk castle on a rock between two beaches, a red tower over the old dockyard, and the longest warm season on the Turkish coast
MarmarisTurkeyA yacht harbour in a pine-covered bay, the start of every blue cruise, and a bar street that is the loudest on the Aegean
İzmirTurkeyTurkey’s third city and its most relaxed: a seafront promenade that walks for kilometres, a bazaar older than the republic, and Ephesus an hour down the line
ÇanakkaleTurkeyThe town on the Dardanelles where the ferries cross to Europe, with Troy on one side and the Gallipoli battlefields on the other
Olympos & ÇıralıTurkeyRuins in a river valley that comes out on a pebble beach, treehouse pensions in the orange groves, and a hillside that has been on fire since antiquity
DalyanTurkeyA river town under Lycian tombs cut in the cliff, with mud baths upstream, a turtle beach downstream and boats instead of roads between them
Mount NemrutTurkeyStone heads of gods and a forgotten king on a 2,150-metre summit, watched at sunrise by everyone who made the drive up in the dark
TrabzonTurkeyA Black Sea port under tea plantations, with a monastery glued to a cliff face an hour inland and green hills that look like nowhere else in Turkey
AssosTurkeyA temple to Athena on a cliff over the Aegean, a fishing harbour of stone houses underneath it, and Lesbos close enough to count the lights
BursaTurkeyThe first Ottoman capital under a mountain that skis in winter: green mosques, a silk bazaar, thermal baths, and the dish the whole country argues about
SafranboluTurkeyAn Ottoman merchant town kept whole: white timber houses down a gorge, a caravanserai to sleep in, and the saffron it is named for
KonyaTurkeyThe city of Rumi: the green dome over his tomb, the whirling dervishes who still turn here, and a Seljuk capital under the modern one
PataraTurkeyEighteen kilometres of empty sand behind a ruined Lycian capital, with loggerhead turtles nesting on it and a rule that keeps the beach closed at night because of them
Datca & KnidosTurkeyA long thin peninsula of almond trees between two seas, with an ancient city at the end of it where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean
MardinTurkeyA city of honey-coloured stone stacked up a hill over the Mesopotamian plain, with Syriac monasteries around it and Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish in the same street
Şanlıurfa & Göbekli TepeTurkeyThe oldest temple in the world on a hill outside a pilgrimage city of carp pools, covered bazaars and the best kebab in Turkey
GaziantepTurkeyThe food capital of Turkey: pistachio baklava by the kilo, a museum of Roman mosaics that stops people mid-sentence, and a bazaar of coppersmiths
VanTurkeyA city on the biggest lake in Turkey, under a rock fortress with cuneiform on it, with an Armenian church on an island and a breakfast that runs to twenty plates
AmasyaTurkeyOttoman houses reflected in a green river, with the rock tombs of Pontic kings cut into the cliff above them and a castle on top
AnkaraTurkeyThe capital Atatürk built on the steppe: the museum that holds Anatolia’s whole prehistory, his mausoleum above the city, and a castle with a village inside it