| except that obligation to get visas for most of the countries (and paying some valuable dollars and euros for them), some of my experiences on having difficulties over my Turkish passport are: - 3 hours interrogation when exiting thailand (some of my turkish friends are busted in their hostels in the 5 AM and taken to the police station for interrogation) - 1 hours interrogation in china (then the local police handed me over to some kind of special police force for some more quick interrogation) and veeery detailed search on my backpack and stuff in public. - had to enter separate line on entering Serbia with other (only) Turkish passport holders, where police officers asked why would i come to the country. these 3 stuff happened just after the official saw Turkish passport. some visa problems my friends had encountered: - when Trump had sanctions over some Arab countries on visas, Turkey was unofficially in that list i presume since none of my friends got their US visa at that time. (some of them was living in the US before or got their MS degree in states) - not being able to get schengen visa. (having CS degree in the most reputable universities in the country, have no criminal record per se) -- while travelling with foreign friends who have 'reputable passports', i realise, oh that is not the standarts. this is happening since i have third world passport + some bad reputation of my country. |