Covid-19 in Turkey

Corona Virus – Covid-19 in Turkey

It was confirmed that the corona virus pandemic reached Turkey on March 11, 2020

Turkey has delayed the entry of the virus through measures taken quickly. Although these viruses to be seen in every country around a long time not seen in Turkey. The spread of the virus has been taken under control with the tight measures taken by the government since the first case, March 11, 2020. The public was effective in not spreading the virus, following the rules of social distance and hygiene rules. Covid-19 in Turkey, by the end of May 2020, it is expected to be completely finished. Most shops are open middle of to May. Turkish airlines and the other airlines will start first domestic in end of May. And then beginning of June they will start for to fly international. In July and in August life will be turn normal like as before.

Turkey’s countries, and flights start date date plan,

Turkey, which began to become clear that the country plans to launch when flights. Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Health, Culture and Tourism Ministry, according to the Ministry of Transportation and Turkey Tourism Promotion and Development Agency’s list created collaboratively conducted, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus will be the first country to begin the flight. The first flight to North Cyprus is scheduled for June 15.

The first foreign countries to be opened.

According to the plan, on 10 June, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Qatar and Greece will start their flights. When it comes to June 15; Flights to Germany, Austria, Azerbaijan, Czechia, Switzerland, Japan, North Macedonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Serbia will start.

Turkish airlines flights started to the USA on June 19. The first flights to Chicago and Washington DC.

The Netherlands and Kazakhstan flights are planned to start on June 20, while the date set for the Scandinavian countries and South Korea is foreseen as June 22.

July 1 is determined for a group of countries including China, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Canada and Sweden, while July 15 for Russia, UK, Israel and Lebanon; August 1 has been set for Italy, Spain, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia.

Turkish Airlines flights started to United States on June 19.

Chicago, 3 flights per week from 19 June 2020
Washington DC, 3 flights per week starting June 19, 2020
Los Angeles, 3 flights per week from 24 June 2020
Miami, 3 flights per week from 22 June 2020

Turkish Airlines ( THY)  AMERICA JULY FLIGHTS

Houston | 3 flights per week as of July 26

Los Angeles | 4 flights per week as of July 1

Miami | 3 flights per week until the end of July

Montreal | 3 flights per week as of July 15

New York | 5 flights per week as of July 1

San Francisco | 3 flights per week as of July 15

Chicago | 3 flights per week until the end of July

Toronto | 4 flights per week as of July 1

Washington DC | 3 flights per week until the end of July

There’s no any more 14-day quarantine for tourists coming to Turkey.

There’s no any more 14-day quarantine for tourists coming to Turkey. Entries start are from June 15.

Turkey has a very strong health infrastructure. They also demonstrated this by the corona virus pandemic. Travellers can come to Turkey for travel easily. All kinds of precautions are taken.

Coronavirus: Is it safe to swim in the sea and pool, is the virus transmitted by swimming?

Researches reveal that coronavirus is very unlikely to be transmitted from sea and pool water.
In the researches, it is stated that the salt and its density in the sea water do not provide an environment suitable for the survival of the virus, and the disinfectant substances used primarily in chlorine in the pools neutralize the virus. You can safely swim holiday in Turkey by the clean sea and clean pools.

Turkey’s Safe Tourism Certification Program

“Safe Tourism Certification Program”, one of the first examples in the world, was prepared under the leadership of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, with the contributions of the Ministries of Health, Transport, Interior and Foreign Affairs and the cooperation of all stakeholders of the sector.
Turkey’s ‘Safe Tourism Certification Program’ defines and advises an extensive series of measures to be taken with regards to transportation and accommodation of all Turkish citizens and international visitors who will spend their holidays in Turkey as well as the well-being and health conditions of guests and of employees working at touristic facilities.

The first international flight to Antalya Airport was made from Germany.

The first international flight to Antalya was on 10 June from Germany. The first of 6 flights organized by a private airline was from Munich and the second was from Dusseldorf. The plane from Munich landed at the airport at 11.40, while the plane from Dusseldorf landed at 12.20.

The first international flight to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport was from Germany.

The first plane to land at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport was the Dusseldorf plane of AnadoluJet. After this plane, the planes taking off from Berlin and Stuttgart also landed at the Sabiha Gökçen airport.

The First international flights started from Istanbul Airport.

Scheduled international flights, which have been stopped for three months due to the Covid-19 outbreak, restarted on 11 June. Within the of scheduled flights launched by Turkish Airlines from Istanbul Airport to Berlin, Dusseldorf, Munich and Frankfurt, London and Amsterdam, the first flight was made to the city of Dusseldorf at 08.20.

Turkish Airlines shared its international flight plan, which will start in July 2020.

Turkish Airlines’ flight plan for America, Europe, Far East, Middle East and Africa will be realized in July:

Flights to America from Turkey
Chicago: 3 flights a week starting June 19, 2020
Houston: 3 flights per week from 25 July 2020
Los Angeles: 3 flights per week from 24 June 2020
Miami: 3 flights per week starting June 22, 2020
Montreal: 3 flights per week from 14 July 2020
New York: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020
San Francisco: 3 flights per week starting on July 15, 2020
Toronto: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Washington DC: 3 flights per week from 19 June 2020

Flights to Europe from Turkey

Central Europe Flights
Amsterdam: Every day starting June 15, 2020
Basel: 4 flights per week from 15 June 2020
Berlin: Every day starting June 15, 2020
Bremen: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Brussels: 4 flights per week from 15 June 2020
Budapest: 5 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Geneva: 6 flights per week from 25 June 2020
Dusseldorf: Every day starting June 15, 2020
Frankfurt: Every day starting June 15, 2020
Hamburg: 5 flights per week from 15 June 2020
Hannover: 5 flights per week from 21 June 2020
Cologne: 5 flights per week from 21 June 2020
Luxembourg: 3 flights per week from 19 June 2020
Munich: Every day starting June 15, 2020
Nuremberg: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Prague: 5 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Salzburg: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Stuttgart: 5 flights per week starting June 15, 2020
Vienna: Every day starting June 16, 2020
Zurich: 5 flights per week starting June 15, 2020

Eastern Europe Flights
Belgrade: 3 flights per week from 21 June 2020
Bucharest: 7 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Chisinau: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Kiev: 10 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Ljubljana: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Lviv: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Odessa: 7 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Pristina: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Sarajevo: 3 flights per week from 21 June 2020
Sofia: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Tbilisi: 7 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Skopje: 3 flights per week from 21 June 2020
Warsaw: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Zagreb: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020

Southern Europe Flights
Athens: 10 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Barcelona: 7 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Bologna: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Lisbon: 4 flights per week from 10 July 2020
Lyon: 3 flights per week from June 17, 2020
Madrid: | 7 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Malaga: 4 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Marseille: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Milan: 10 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Paris: 5 flights per week from 15 June 2020
Rome: 7 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Toulouse: 3 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Venice: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020

Northern Europe Flights
Birmingham: 4 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Dublin: 2 flights per week from 24 June 2020
Edinburgh: 4 flights per week from 15 July 2020
L. Gatwick: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Helsinki: 4 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Copenhagen: 4 flights per week from 15 June 2020
Krasnodar: 3 flights per week from 20 July 2020
London: Every day starting June 15, 2020
Manchester: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Minsk: 3 flights per week from June 17, 2020
Moscow: 14 flights per week from 16 July 2020
Oslo: 4 flights per week from 15 July 2020
St Petersburg: 3 flights per week from 17 July 2020
Stockholm: 3 flights per week from June 17, 2020

Far East Flights from Turkey

Almaty: 3 flights per week from 21 June 2020
Ashgabat: 3 flights per week from 21 July 2020
Bangkok: 2 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Bishkek: 3 flights per week from 23 June 2020
Bombay: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Dhaka: 3 flights per week starting on July 1, 2020
Delhi: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Dushanbe: 2 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Guangzhou: 1 flight per week from July 4, 2020
Hong Kong: 2 flights per week from 24 June 2020
Islamabad: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Jakarta: 2 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Kabul | 2 flights per week as of June 24, 2020
Karachi: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Kuala Lumpur: 2 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Lahore: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Manila: 2 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Nur-Sultan: 3 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Beijing: 1 flight per week from July 4, 2020
Seoul: 2 flights per week from 24 June 2020
Singapore: 2 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Tashkent: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Tokyo: 2 flights per week from July 1, 2020

Flights to the Middle East from Turkey

Amman: 7 flights per week from 5 July 2020
Baghdad: 7 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Bahrain: 3 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Beirut: 7 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Jeddah: 5 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Doha: 2 flights per week from 18 June 2020
Dubai: 11 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Erbil: 7 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Kuwait: 7 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Riyadh: 5 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Tehran: 7 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Tel Aviv: 4 flights per week from 24 June 2020

Flights to Africa from Turkey

Algeria: 5 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Khartoum: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Cairo: 7 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Casablanca: 4 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Tunisia: 4 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Abuja: 3 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Addis Ababa: 3 flights per week from 13 July 2020
Accra: 3 flights per week from 15 July 2020
Bamako – Niamey: 1 flight per week from July 17, 2020
Johannesburg: 3 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Kinshasa – Libreville: 2 flights per week from 17 July 2020
Lagos: 3 flights per week from 1 July 2020
Nairobi: 3 flights per week from 8 July 2020
Niamey – Bamako: 1 flight per week from 21 July 2020
Nouakchott – Dakar: 3 flights per week from 17 July 2020
Ouagadougou – Conakry: 1 flight per week from 15 July 2020
Ouagadougou – Freetown: 1 flight per week from 15 July 2020

Turkey Covid-19 safest country in terms of measures

Turkey in all our airports until July 1 opening test centers.
Intense ones such as Istanbul, Antalya, Izmir, Dalaman open until July 1 and others until July 15. The guest can take a test here before returning to his home country, and the result of the test is 15 euros. As a result, it turns out in 2 hours. Also, guests can take this test at any time in health centers.

The safest holiday destination in Turkey

Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry; Covid-19 test centers will open until July 1 in busy airports and July 15 in others. Turkey is the best country in Europe in health care. It is better than many countries in terms of number of hospitals, number of beds, number of healthcare workers.

Turkey still the safest place to holiday tourists

International flights to Turkey to begin with foreign tourists who come to vacation “We really miss Turkey, Turkey hello” message arrived.

Tourists coming to family or friends at the airport, “Turkey, We missed you, hello Turkey” of tourists from Turkey and still safe holiday address.

Turkey hotels will begin to open in July

With the start of international flights, it has started to open in hotels where foreign tourists will come. Hotels, touristic facilities and actively started their activities in important touristic centers such as Istanbul, Antalya, Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Fethiye and Marmaris.

Daily tours will start in July in Turkey

Safest holiday address with travel agents in Turkey begins the day tour. Daily boat tours, night dinner boat tours, guided tours of historical places, museum tours started in July.

During the normalization process of Cappadocia, tourists started to come for visiting.

Tourists wandering among the fairy chimneys and valleys covered with natural rock formations in the Cappadocia region, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, visit areas open to visitors, touring the region full of museums and visual beauty.

British tourists began to arrive in Turkey for holiday.

England, the 14-day quarantine after Turkey applied to be exempt from abroad began to arrive at British tourists. The first charter flight for the British Turkey begins on 15 July. Jet2, Britain’s leading tour operator, will have two aircraft, Dalaman and Antalya, on July 15. TUI and Easyjet from Turkey on August 1, will begin carrying the tourists. Turkish Airlines increased its flights to Antalya and Dalaman. Starting that Sun Express is preparing to increase capacity and arrange additional flights, tourism professionals state that the season will be extended until the end of November this year.

Russian tourists began to arrive in Turkey for holiday.

1th of August flights started from Romania, from Russia and from Poland to Turkey. One of the safest countries for a relaxed holiday in Turkey and started to come to the big tourist cities such as Antalya and Istanbul.

Partially lifted the travel warning for Turkey to Germany.

Germany removed the travel warning for İzmir, Aydın, Muğla and Antalya as of August 4. German tourists began to come on holiday to Turkey