Want To Live In Turkey For Some Time

[shady007]

I fell in love with this girl I met in the gulf. She has moved to Turkey and I want to move there for sometime and give our relationship a shot.

I live in Sri lanka (Passport is worthless), I am making just enough to survive and I dropped out of my IT degree..I have experience in Industrial management and I speak good English. I want to know if there is anyway I could live there for a while. I dont mind volunteering in an NGO or even doing physical labor..

Any advice is welcome

[JimF]

I'd suggest that learning Turkish might be the best place to start.

[Buenchico]

Start by contacting the Turkish embassy in Colombo to ask about visa requirements for different types of entry. (e.g. as a worker or as a volunteer).
http://kolombo.be.mfa.gov.tr/Mission/Contact

[davebro]

Just go to Turkey on a tourist trip, hook up with your girlfriend (if she still wants you) and see how things work out.(Watch "Midnight Express " first).

[bluemoon1]

You can live in Turkey on a visitors visa, it will need renewing every three months, but you can live there as long as you like on that. There are regular boat trips to the Greek isles where you can "go abroad" and return the same day with a new visa.
If you want to work there legally you will have to obtain citizenship which is a long drawn out process and costs quite a bit of money and getting a job will mean you are competing with the Turks who wont take kindly to that.

[bluemoon1]

Just re read your question, without a passport, I don't know.

[237SJ]

^ Not true. I have a friend who works for Turkish Airlines and doesn't (and has no intention of having) citizenship. It depends who you work for.

[bluemoon1]

There are many loopholes to get what you want? I lived and worked there for six months. I was never a citizen.

[237SJ]

No loopholes. He's been there 10 years along with many 'foreigners'

[bluemoon1]

I didn't mention your friend although you may have thought I implied it. All I was saying is that Turkey isn't like the UK where government departments are concerned.