🇹🇷 Turkey — Visa Documents for Indians

Step 1 of 7

First: which of the two visas you can actually get

🔴 Türkiye gives an Indian passport holder one of two visas, and which one is not your choice — it turns on a document you either hold or do not. Everything else on this page follows from it.

🔴 Before you click anything: the address the Turkish government itself publishes for the e-Visa — www.evisa.gov.tr — does not currently serve an application form. (checked 2026-09-07)

• The site returns HTTP 200 but redirects to dtvgroup.com.tr, the corporate site of a private company.
• That company, DTV, is an authorised contractor of the Turkish foreign ministry and says so — this is not a hijacked domain. But its site has no application form.
• Its own "E-Visa Online Application" button links back to evisa.gov.tr, which redirects to DTV again. The loop closes with nowhere to apply.
• The information pages still work: evisa.gov.tr/en/info/ serves the real FAQ, and /en/status/ is where the Embassy tells you to check a visa you already hold.
• Start at visa.gov.tr instead. Every Turkish visa application has begun there since 5 January 2016, and the Ministry says the system sends applicants who qualify on to the e-Visa.

Source: the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Also drawn on: what the official site did when it was checked.

Step 2 of 7

What Türkiye checks before anything else

If you are taking the e-Visa route, one document decides it — and the Embassy in New Delhi publishes rules the general FAQ leaves out:

• It only has to be valid by date on the day you enter Türkiye. Nothing else about it matters.
• A single-entry visa counts even if you have already used it, and even if you never used it, as long as its validity covers your entry date.
• 🔴 An e-Visa from another country is NOT accepted. A US B1/B2 sticker or a UK residence permit works; another country’s electronic visa does not.
• A supporting visa in an OLD or expired passport still counts, provided its own validity covers your entry date. Register the e-Visa on your current passport and carry both.
• 🔴 The e-Visa website does not check your supporting document at all. The airline does, at the departure gate — and if it does not meet these criteria they will not let you board.

There is no visa on arrival for an Indian passport. Türkiye publishes the list of nationalities that may get one — 21 of them — and India is not on it.

The passport rule is not the same on the two routes, and neither is the "six months" everyone repeats:

• For the e-Visa, the statutory test is Law 6458 article 7.1b — valid at least 60 days beyond the DURATION OF STAY. A one-month e-Visa therefore needs 90 days from the day you land.
• For the sticker visa, the Embassy asks for more: 6 months beyond your intended stay, a passport issued less than 10 years ago, and at least two completely blank pages.
• The Ministry publishes worked examples for the statutory rule: a 30-day stay needs 90 days of validity, a 90-day stay needs 150.
• Six months satisfies both tests for a normal tourist trip, so the common advice is safe even though it is not the legal wording.

Source: the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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The documents — the Embassy publishes a numbered list

Everyone brings these

• Your passport — the validity rule differs by route, see above

The rest of the list depends on your situation. Pick yours to shorten it — or read all of them.

One requirement that catches families: a minor needs a consent letter from BOTH parents in every case — including when the child is travelling with both parents. It must be on stamp paper, carry photographs of both parents and the child, and be notarised.

Build these files with the checklist above

Source: the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Step 4 of 7

Which mission handles you, and who you actually hand it to

Türkiye has three missions in India, and which one handles you is decided by your state, not by where you would rather go:

🔴 You do not hand your sticker application to the Embassy. It says so itself: the Embassy in New Delhi and the Consulates in Mumbai and Hyderabad do not accept sticker visa applications directly. Everything goes through Gateway Management, the visa application centre, which has about sixteen offices across India.

• Book the appointment with the centre, not the mission — one call centre for all of India on 022 67866029, or delhi@ / mumbai@ / hyderabad@gateway.com.tr.
• Processing is a minimum of 4 working days in India for a tourist or business visa, 2 to 4 days longer outside Delhi, and up to 5 days more in high season.
• The Embassy will not tell you where your application has got to. Tracking is the centre’s job.

Source: the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Step 5 of 7

What it costs, in rupees

The New Delhi Embassy publishes its visa fees in rupees. Two things to hold together: this is the government fee, and the visa centre charges its own service fee on top.

• Two notes on the numbers. The Embassy states an e-Visa costs at least USD 85 less than a sticker visa, which is the strongest argument for checking whether you qualify. And the fee schedule PDF linked from the Ministry’s own visa page is dated 2014 and lists 38 countries — India is not among them, so it is a dead end.

Source: the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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What you get, how long it takes, and what gets refused

What an Indian passport gets, and what a refusal costs:

• The e-Visa is single entry, valid one month, for tourism or commerce only. Work and study visas come from a mission, never the e-Visa.
• A diplomatic passport is exempt for 90 days. Ordinary, special and service passports all need a visa.
• The mission may change your visa type or duration, or refuse you, without giving a reason. The fee is not refunded either way.
• The six refusal reasons it does publish: missing documents, documents that do not stand up, unattested copies where originals were required, false documents, and failing either the Turkish internal clearance or the Embassy’s own assessment.
• There is no waiting period after a refusal — you may apply again immediately, but you pay every fee again.

🔴 A trap that catches people who are not even visiting Türkiye. If you hold an Indian passport and transit İstanbul Airport on the way to Mexico, Panama, Colombia or Venezuela, you need an Electronic Airport Transit Visa — even though you never leave the airport. It is free, and you must carry the printout: the airline checks it before you board and Turkish authorities check it in the transit area.

Source: the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Nobody is authorised to do your e-Visa for you

🔴 Worth reading before you pay anyone. The Turkish Embassy in New Delhi states that no handling company has been given the right to issue or facilitate an e-Visa, and that applicants should make their own e-Visa application.

• The Embassy warns that sites other than the official one are fake, and that they charge more than twice the official fee for doing exactly what you can do yourself.
• If you have already used one, the Embassy points you to evisa.gov.tr/en/status/ to check whether what you were sold is real.
• The sticker route is different: there the visa centre is official and its fee is published. An agent filing on your behalf there needs an original letter of attorney from every applicant.

Source: the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs