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Why a Turkish e-Visa or consular visa was refused - the 60-day validity rule, eligibility conditions, 90-in-180 and more.
Turkey refuses on two very different tracks, and this explainer covers both. The e-Visa is an automated eligibility check under Law No. 6458 on Foreigners and International Protection - it fails on the 60-day passport validity margin, on conditional nationality requirements, on the 90-days-in-180 short-stay cap or on a mistyped field, with no appeal and no refund. A consular sticker visa is decided by a person on the documents filed, and its refusal notice states its own remedy. Select what applies to see the rule behind it and exactly what to change.
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Turkey's 60-day validity margin catches passports that would satisfy almost any other destination.
Explains which refusals are automated with no remedy and which come with a written notice and a deadline.
Tick off each remedy and see whether the application is genuinely different before paying again.
At least 60 days beyond the duration of stay granted by the visa - not the six months most countries ask for. For a 90-day e-Visa that works out at roughly five months of validity from the entry date. Add the duration of stay to your entry date, add 60 days, and check the passport outlives that date before you apply.
No. An e-Visa outcome is an automated eligibility decision with no appeal and no refund. Either fix the eligibility problem - passport validity, the supporting visa or residence permit a conditional nationality needs, or the details you typed - and apply again, or apply for a sticker visa at a Turkish consulate, where a person assesses documents the portal cannot consider. A consular refusal is a written administrative decision and the notice states the remedy and the deadline.
Some nationalities are eligible unconditionally and others only on conditions - most commonly holding a valid visa or residence permit from a Schengen country, the United States, the United Kingdom or Ireland, and holding an ordinary passport. The supporting document must still be valid on your travel dates and is checked again at the airport, so a permit that expires mid-trip causes a problem even after the e-Visa is issued. Check the eligibility page for your exact nationality before paying.
Short stays are capped at 90 days within any rolling 180-day period, counted backwards from each day of presence, and both the arrival and departure days count. Leaving and re-entering does not reset the counter. If you genuinely need longer, the route is a residence permit rather than repeated short visits - overstaying attracts a fine and an entry ban whose length scales with the overstay.