Turkey to give without visa travel to six European nations

Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Feb. 20 declared that Ankara will give without visa travel to five Schengen nations just as the U.K. with a 90-day visa exclusion for touristic purposes.

The visa exclusion will be conceded to Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Poland and the U.K., the service said in a composed articulation.

Sans visa touristic travel to Turkey from the said nations will start March 2, 2020 and will be substantial for 90 days in at regular intervals of the visits, the announcement included.

"The point of this progression is to progress [Turkey's] the travel industry potential with the said nations, just as creating business, monetary and social relations," it said.

Turkey has a mind boggling visa arrangement, while it requires visas from some European Union part states and Schengen nations, it awards sans visa travel to some other.

A sum of 78 nations, including European nations, for example, Germany, Spain, France, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland and Finland, has been allowed visa exclusion for touristic visits to Turkey.

Turkey and the EU in December 2013 consented to consent to the Readmission Arrangement as an end-result of propelling visa progression talks for Turkish residents, after about two years of exchange.

With a roundabout distributed on Sept. 18, 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan required the increasing speed of endeavors to meet visa progression exchange with the EU.

"So as to guarantee the fulfillment of visa progression for our residents, it is important to quicken the endeavors to meet the criteria enlisted in the Visa Liberalization Roadmap and to guarantee the congruity of the endeavors which are affirmed to have been met by the European Commission," the roundabout had said.