Visa requirements for Turkish citizens

Turkish citizens need a Schengen visa, which covers all member states for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Turkey and 60 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

45 countries ask holders of the Turkish passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Turkey without one: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium and 40 others.

The reverse holds for 51 countries: holders of the Turkish passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Turkey (Angola, Bangladesh, Barbados, Botswana, Burundi and 46 others).

58 countries ask holders of the Turkish passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 44 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Turkey.

14 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Turkey, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Turkey, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Romania (2).

The United States refused 22% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Turkey in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 77 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 119 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Turkey refused 15% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 45th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Turkish passport

By continent, the Turkish passport is visa-free in 27 countries in the Americas, 20 countries in Asia, 12 countries in Africa, 10 countries in Europe and 3 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Turkish citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), the Bahamas (240 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Peru (180 days) and El Salvador (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Turkish citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 27 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Turkish citizens enter Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad and 22 others. Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Korea and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Turkey’s neighbours

Syria, Georgia, Iran and Azerbaijan admit Turkish citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Iraq (e-Visa), Greece (visa required), Armenia (visa on arrival for up to 120 days) and Bulgaria (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Greek passport ranks 19th (160 destinations), the Bulgarian passport ranks 28th (159 destinations), the Georgian passport ranks 72nd (120 destinations), the Azerbaijani passport ranks 118th (72 destinations) and the Armenian passport ranks 127th (67 destinations). Of the 199 passports in the data, 95 can enter visa-free, 11 get a visa on arrival, 10 need an e-Visa and 83 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Turkey.