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Türkiye's published foreign-ministry entry rules list passport validity and nothing else — no ticket condition appears.
A retrievable official rule affirmatively does not contain a ticket condition. What was read, and what it says, is set out below.
Last verified 5 August 2026 · Europe
“passports must be valid for at least 60 days beyond the duration of stay”
What the rule actually says
The MFA states passport conditions — validity of at least six months from arrival, and expiry at least 60 days beyond the intended stay — and stops there.
No onward or return ticket condition is published alongside them.
Who checks
No published ticket rule. Nothing official describes airline check-in screening for one.
A note on airline enforcement, because almost every page on this subject states it as fact: airlines screen these rules through IATA Timatic, a paid business product with no public interface. Nobody outside the industry can check what it says for a given route on a given day. New Zealand is the only authority in this set whose own published text names the check-in desk.
What would make this wrong
- Türkiye operates a conditional e-Visa tier for some nationalities, which requires a pre-existing Schengen, US, UK or Ireland visa or residence permit. evisa.gov.tr redirects non-Turkish requests to a third-party domain and its FAQ is JavaScript-only, so whether that conditional tier lists a return ticket is unverified.
Sources
- Türkiye travel advice: entry requirements (UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office — another government's summary, used because the destination's own page could not be retrieved)
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