{"id":58676,"date":"2011-01-25T17:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T13:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=58676"},"modified":"2011-01-25T17:47:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T13:47:50","slug":"russia-turkey-visa-regime-might-be-eliminated-as-early-as-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/25\/russia-turkey-visa-regime-might-be-eliminated-as-early-as-april.html","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Turkey Visa Regime Might be Eliminated as Early as April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The visa requirements between Russia and Turkey might be annulled beginning from April 2011, head of Turkey&#8217;s Ministry of Culture and Tourism press department G\u00fcven Ta\u015fba\u015f\u0131 told Interfax news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question of eliminating the visa regime for Russian and Turkish citizens was confirmed long ago,&#8221; said Ta\u015fba\u015f\u0131. &#8220;A respective decision is important for both sides. It&#8217;s likely that the number of tourists from Russia to Turkey will increase already this year, at least by 10\u201315%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that with this [decision], we will lose a substantial amount of money that Russian tourists pay to enter Turkey; however, we are confident that the money which they spend in our country will increase and will cover those losses,&#8221; said Ta\u015fba\u015f\u0131, adding that the agreement allows citizens of both Russia and Turkey to visit each other&#8217;s country for up to 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and Turkey signed an agreement in May 2010 for the mutual visa facilitation as part of a series of accords signed during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev\u2019s visit to Ankara. \u201cFollowing the signed agreements\u2019 adoption in Turkish Parliament, the new visa regime will be applied,\u201d the same diplomat said, the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News and Economic Review reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visa requirements between Russia and Turkey might be annulled beginning from April 2011, head of Turkey&#8217;s Ministry of Culture and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20638,20412,20411,20639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}