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Biometric passports start in Turkey on June 1

Turkey's Interior Minister Beşir Atalay announced that the country will start to use passports with biometric elements on June 1. He told the press: "Regular passports will be red ...

Turkey's Interior Minister Beşir Atalay announced that the country will start to use passports with biometric elements on June 1. He told the press: "Regular passports will be red and diplomatic passports will be black". Atalay said actual passports could also be used till 2015, and the government had prepared a bill to raise passport validity term to ten years from five.

 

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