In October a diplomatic spat unfolded between the US and Turkey. Specifically, a worker at the US consulate in Istanbul was arrested over suspicions of being linked to a cleric blamed for last year’s failed coup. The US didn’t appreciate this, and issued the following statement at the time: "Recent events have forced the United…
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Speaking of Turkey, Turkish airlines has been publishing under 2,000 dollar roundtrip fares from Manilla to Houston. That gives you over 60 hours in their business class for a very cheap price, possibly the best way to book?
This statement is complete nonsense: “As a result, for the past couple of months it hasn’t been possible for US passport holders to get visas to enter Turkey.“
The ban only applied to Turkish missions in the United States. I got a visa at the Turkish Embassy in Beijing.
ThePointsGuy.com also documented that US citizens could get visas on arrival as long as they were originating outside of the United States. For once, TPG is more thorough than you. To your credit, normally your articles are 10 times more useful than TPG.
Turkey has resumed issuing visas for US citizens now as well. Even the e-visa website no works for Americans again which was surprisingly quick.
@Daniel M.
From a technical standpoint you're correct regarding the statement of it being impossible to gain a visa if a USA citizen.
From a practical standpoint, give Lucky a break here, unless you're going out of your way to position in another country on separate tickets and itineraries (according to another blogger at TPG that was even proving difficult) travel to Turkey from USA was for all intents and purposes impossible.
@Nick in Chicago
Sorry this has nothing to do with giving Lucky a break. The State Department estimated in 2016 that there 9 million U.S. citizens living overseas, which includes myself.
This has nothing to do with repositioning. It was simply sloppy reporting that I've corrected.
Why would anyone want to go to a country run by bigoted arseholes that can't find money to fix the economy, help the sick, homeless, but can find billions to build more warships?