1)The following items may be brought into country duty free;      

Whether used or not, personal effects of non-commercial nature that are brought with travelers or brought in a period of two months before or six months after their entrance, are relief from customs duties.

A. Goods Used for Clothing and Traveling

Goods used for clothing

Goods used for daily life and travel

Fabric for dresses (not exceeding 5 meters)

One fur clothing belonging to the traveler holding the right of residence transfer when transferring his or her residence to Turkey permanently.

B. Electronic Goods

1 black&white television

1 portable colour television up to 16 inch screen (including 16 inch screen)

1 black-white television-radio-tape recorder set.

1 video camera and 5 blank video tapes

1 Film projector up to 8mm (with 10 blank films)

1 slide projector

Data-bank with a RAM up to 128 Kbyte (including 128 Kbyte )

Compact Discman

1 portable radio and radio-tape recorder (self giving voice) (the features of the radio-tape is determined by the Undersecretariat For Customs)

1 walkman or a small pocket-type tape recorder

Electronic game machines without cassettes and cartridges

Record, tape or compact disc (maximum 5 of each)

GSM-cellular phone (with SIM cards)

C. Musical Instruments

Maximum three instruments (Harmonica, Mandolin,Flageolet, Brass band, Flute, Guitar, Accordion) including only one of each.

D. Sports&Game Instruments

A camping tent with two rooms,

A diving apparatus for underwater sports (quality, spare parts and parts are defined by Undersecretariat),

Gliding wings (a pair),

A plastic boat without an engine,

A wind surf used for water sports,

Mat (a pair),

Each of the other sports equipment and clothing (except sea motorcycle and motorized sea sled) for self-use,  

Chess set,

Game of checkers set,

5 deck of playing cards,

E. Necessary medical items

F. Necessary kitchenware

G. Consumers’ Goods

1- Either domestic or foreign;

a) 200 cigarettes (1 box) and 50 cigars.

 In addition,

200 gr cut tobacco and 200 cigar papers or 200 gr pipe tobacco or 200 gr tobacco or 200 gr tumbaki or 50 gr snuff,

b) If the goods are bought from the Ex-Customs Line Sales Stores traveler can bring 200 cigarettes (1 box), 100 cigars and 500 gr pipe tobacco,

2- 1.5 kg of coffee, 1.5 kg of nescafe, 500 gr of tea, 1 kg of chocolate, 1 kg of food produced from sugar,

3- a bottle of 100 cl or 2 bottles of 75 or 70 cl of alcoholic drinks

4- 5 bottles of eau de cologne, lavender, perfume, essence and lotion kept in bottles of maximum 120 ml,

H. Animals

one cat or one dog or one bird or ten aquarium fish (They must have veterinary health certificate, origin and vaccine documents and also identification card if any.)

I. Miscellaneous

A portable type-writer

A camera (with 5 films),

A baby carriage

A bicycle of any size for a child traveller,

Toys of a child traveler (max. 10 pieces),

Pocket sized calculator that works with battery,

An iron (steam or steamless),

A praying mat at a size of 1x1.5 m. (woolen, cotton or synthetic),

A small handy binocular (except night vision and sniper binoculars),

A table clock,

A portable gas stove,

2) Giftware

Gifts not exceeding 300 Euro in value and not for trading purposes may be brought into the country duty free.

3) The following items are forbidden to export from Turkey:

-           Cultural-Historical Works and Natural Fauna,

-           Tobacco seeds and plants

-           Indian hemp

-           Firewood and charcoal

-           Angora goats

-           Wild animals (alive or dead)

-           Some natural flower bulbs

-           Datça data palm (phoenix the ophrasti crenter)

-         Timber of the trees of walnut, mulberry, cherry, pear, plum, common ash, common elm and lime linden

-           Pterocarya carpicifolia

-           Liquidambar orientalis

-           Saplings of olive, fig, hazelnut, pistachio, sultana

-           Sahlep/Orchis (dust, tablet or any forms)

-           Exports in the context of Vienna Convention on Protection of Ozone Layer and its protocols

-       Exports of the chemicals listed in Annex of Chemical Weapons Agreement (List-1) to the third countries