Biometric Passports introduced in Turkey in June

Turkish Security Directorate General will start biometric passports as of June 1. Turkish citizens who are willing to get new biometric passports started getting appointment from the Security Department on May 23. To prevent any problems, new passports will be posted to citizens. Turkey's consulates will give passports to citizens living abroad.

The regular passports will be red, diplomatic passports will be black and special passports will continue to be green in this new system. Around 5 million people actually have passports in Turkey, and almost 2.3 million Turkish passports are renewed or their terms are extended in Turkey and in Turkey's foreign representations every year. New passports will be valid only for the term written on it, and they will not be extended.