{"id":5962,"date":"2010-05-07T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2019-04-01T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:44:23","slug":"turkey-russia-visas-23968746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-russia-visas-23968746\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey and Russia set to visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/turkey-russia-visa-nationalturk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5964\" title=\"Turkey and Russia set to visas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/turkey-russia-visa-nationalturk.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey and Russia set to visas\" width=\"226\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/turkey-russia-visa-nationalturk.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/turkey-russia-visa-nationalturk-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Turkey and Russia are preparing to sign a visa exemption agreement during Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev&#8217;s visit to Turkey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s Ambassador to Moscow Halil Ak\u0131nc\u0131 told that &#8220;The consulates of the two countries have initialed the agreement to lift visa procedures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s Ambassador to Moscow Halil Ak\u0131nc\u0131 added that Russia requests small edits to the agreement, but Dmitriy Medvedev and Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl could sign it without waiting for the domestic approval process to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Visa-free transitions between the two countries will begin this year. Initial efforts for the removal of visa procedures first came up during Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s visit to Moscow last January. The two countries have launched studies, as Russia was also supportive of the move.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey and Russia set to visas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,68,74,63,118,101,117,194,188],"tags":[1149,7885,7882,599,7884,77182,7877,7878,77184,7880],"class_list":["post-5962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-culture","category-daily","category-hot","category-politics","category-travel","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-politics","tag-abdullah-gul","tag-dmitriy-medvedev","tag-halil-akinci","tag-russia","tag-russian-president-dmitriy-medvedev","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-and-russia","tag-turkey-and-russia-visa","tag-turkey-economy","tag-turkey-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}