Health Controls and Procedures for People Entering Turkey
1. No inoculation certificates are required for those entering Turkey, and unless the person is coming from an infected country there is no health control.
2. For those arriving by yacht, upon declaration that there are no incidences of illness or death on the craft, the Transit Log is stamped.
3. If the person comes from a country specified in the International Health Code where smallpox, cholera, plague or yellow fever are endemic, then although check-up.
4. If arrivals have come from an infected region, any water ( drinking or otherwise ) and foodstuffs are analysed.
5. a) If arrived road, air or sea, vehicles some from a healthy port, they are given permission to enter the country on the basis of a declaration by the captain or driver.
b) If the vehicle comes from one or more regions infected by a quarantine disease, then the precautions mentioned in paragraph 3 are applied.
Customs Regulations
I Duty - Free Personal Effects
Customs duty in not charged on personal effects arriving in Turkey From two months before to six months after the arrival of their owner.
Classified as personal effects are
1. Clothing and items of personal care
2 Sports equipment and clothing, one each chess set and other games and two packs of cards.
3. One portable radio or radio - cassette incorporating its own amplifier.
4. One manual portable typewriter.
5. One walkman or small pocket tape recorder, mouth organ, accordion, harmonica, mandoline, guitar, flute, recorder,.
6. Records and tape cassettes, video, tapes.
7. One camera, film camera, film projector, and slide projector
Ten cine films and five camera films.
8. Mattresses for sick travellers, power - manual driven wheelchair for disable persons, and medicines used in personal treatment.
9. One pushchair or pram, one tricycle, toys and electronic games without cassettes.
10. 400 cigarettes; or 50 cigars; or 200 gm cut tobacco and 200 cigarettes papers; or 200 gm pipe tobacco or chewing tobacco; or 200 gr nargiletobacco.
Formalities for motorist
Automobiles, minibuses , caravans, towed sea craft, motorcycle and bicycles can be brought into Turkey for up to three months without a Carnet Passage
or triptique. The vehicle is simply registered in the owners passport and this registration is cancelled when the owner leaves the country.
For stays longer than three months it is necessary to apple to the Turkish Touring and Automobile Club
for a triptique.
Regulations Concerning Domestic Pets Brought to Turkey
1. Cats, Dogs, Monkeys : The owners or transporters of such animal are required to supply a Certificate of origin and a Veterinary
Health Certificate declaring that the animal in question is free of all kinds of disease and a Rabies Inoculation Certificate proving that
the animal was inoculated against rabies at least 15 days previously.
2. Birds, Rabbits, etc, : These animals require a Veterinary Health Certificate, which, in the case of birds must declare them to be free of Newcastle disease and diphtheria . |