Flying to, but not entering, Turkey without passport
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- Aparna Patel
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- 4 Aug, 2023
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I’m Swedish too, and I tell you, you will not be able to board without a passport, because Turkey is outside of the Schengen Area
You can usually use your driving licence within Schengen (though not with Ryanair, Wizz or easyJet), because it counts as a single country, so flights from Göteborg to Greece (for example) are effectively domestic.
Turkey, however, is outside Schengen, meaning Sweden-Turkey flights count as real international flights. All over the world, this means going through passport control (also known as clearing immigration) at the departure (except in a few countries) and arrival airport, though not at transit airports if they have corridors for international connections (which IST does).
To clear immigration in Schengen countries, you need a passport or national ID card (issued by the police, though you probably don’t have one of those). However, as you’re going from Sweden directly to a country outside the EU and EFTA (Turkey), only a passport will do, due to the Swedish passlag.
So no, just no. Have your mother send you your passport by registered mail, or, if not possible, get a new passport ASAP – it takes 5 working days. In the latter case, ssk your mum to send you a high-quality photocopy of the passport’s ID page to show at the police station together with your driving licence.
Your Saudi visa in the old passport would still be valid together with your new passport.
TK staff will not let you board the plane without a passport. Suppose you succeeded in that. In IST the security checkpoint attendant will not let you take the escalators up to the transit hall. You will end up sitting in the airport police station for couple hours until your mom finds you and finally missing your connecting flight.
Most likely, NO. Not a chance you should rely on.
Because GOT-IST is an international flight, the Turkish gate staff will verify all passengers have travel docs, almost always a Passport, during boarding. They might not actually check it, just seeing that you have it.
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You won’t be able to board in GOT unless you have your passport; they’ll check your documents for RUH at that point. Maybe you can talk them into checking you in for the GOT-IST leg without issuing a boarding pass for the IST-RUH leg, but I wouldn’t count on it if I were you, especially not on the strength of advice from strangers on the internet.
In fact, since Swedish citizens are not among those who can enter Turkey with a national ID, you will almost certainly be unable to board the first leg of your flight without your passport.
I would advise you to call the airline and run this idea past them. They are the only ones who will be able to tell you whether they will allow you to board their airplanes.
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