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Useful addresses

Washington

Embassy of Turkey
2525 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel.: 202-612 6740 / 6741
Fax: 202-319 1639
E-mail: contact@turkishembassy.org
Web site: Embassy of Turkey in Washington

London

Consulate General for the Republic of Turkey
Rutland Lodge, Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge
London SW7 1BW
Tel.: 020-7591 6900
Fax: 020-7591 6911
E-mail: turkishconsulate@btconnect.com
Web site: Consulate General of Turkey in London

Paris

Embassy of the Republic of Turkey
184 Boulevard Malesherbes
75017 Paris
Tel.: 01-4763 1714
Fax: 01-4763 7888

One needs a visa to enter Turkey. Visitors from Europe or the USA can obtain one at the border for 10 euro.

Photography

Turkey is an interesting country for photographers. With a wide angle, wonderful landscape pictures can be made. With a light tele lens, sunsets, details of columns without distracting background. A macro lens is great to record details of mosaics, faces of statues and decorations on columns.

Take a camera bag to protect your camera from the dust, which you'll find in great quantities, especially at archeological sites.

It's absolutely forbidden to take pictures of military object. In all other cases, ask permission to take pictures of people. Especially of veiled women.

Money

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If you know which places you are going to visit, you can find out online if and where there are ATM's that you can use with MasterCard and Cirrus or Visa

Safety and security

Traveling in some countries or regions brings risks with it. That doesn't need to stop you from going there, but part of a thourough preparation of your trip is finding out about possible risks.

A good place to look is the CIA World Factbook: Turkey, but also go to the web site of your own country's Foreign Department.

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