Driving through Turkey

daffodils


Joined: 11/11/2008
Posts: 184

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 03:14

Hi everybody.



Please can I ask anyone who has driven over from the UK what paperwork we need to drive through Turkey?



Thanks

Mr Vince


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 696

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 15:19

You need to buy insurance at border and also on arrival into Cyprus. You also need vehicle registration document in your name, not a copy. You also need to buy an entry visa at border. Takes about 1 hour for all.



If bringing stuff in from UK then bring receipts or remove from origional boxes and so they look used not new.

daffodils


Joined: 11/11/2008
Posts: 184

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 16:07

Thank you Mr. Vince

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 16:13

£10 on a Brit passport but FREE for me on my Kiwi one for visa. Have to have some perks coming from 'gods own country'!



Richard

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 16:14

daffodils who are you using for breakdown cover .I keep getting the start and finish journey in the UK problem and not Asia Turkey.The only one I can find is eurostar and I do not really want to go through the tunnel

daffodils


Joined: 11/11/2008
Posts: 184

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 16:27

Hello wanderer,



I haven't really gone into it yet, it is now on my list along with a million other things but now you've mentioned it I will see if I can find someone. I assumed (wrongly it seemed) that our existing breakdown cover was ok

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 16:29

Dafodils



Who are you with?

I will email you off forum

daffodils


Joined: 11/11/2008
Posts: 184

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 16:31

Hi Wanderer, we are with Direct Line it is lynn30060203@msn.com



Thanks

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 16:38

Hi

Whilst having a night out in Riaz's (Happy Valley) Catalkoy, we had a discussion with someone who had driven over and he said it cost him a fortune in back handers at every stage/country you go through (Even getting done for speeding whilst he was parked!) He said it cost him about £1000 in back handers on top of the petrol.

Someone else suggested driving through Italy to Brindinsky (I think that is how it is spelt) and getting the ferry over.

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 19:18

Hi Katymackem,



I think it is Brindisi you mean and not Brindinsky. Brindisi is in southern Italy and Brindinsky could be anywhere in eastern europe.





The butlers wife

FatgrumpyB


Joined: 11/03/2009
Posts: 48

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 20:04

Msg 1, may I also siggest you have your driving license on you at all times whilst driving through Turkey

hybrid


Joined: 07/07/2009
Posts: 13

Message Posted:
07/07/2009 21:55

I had to pay a back hander driving through Serbia, but i found the hardest border crossing was Bulgaria/Turkey. They will stamp in your passport that you entered by car and put in reg. number. If your going to drive back make sure you go through same border crossing when leaving Turkey. I didnt , deceided on different route and that caused me no end of trouble. Ended up sleeping in car in (no mans land) area between Bulgaria and Turkey to wait for an official who started work in the morning (it was about 10pm). But all in all great road trip. You just need Vehical registration Document (log book), Insurance details, Driving License and Passport. You will arrange any paperwork at the point of entry into Turkey.