Turkey Visa for Colombians and Argentines 2027: Visa-Free 90 Days

Turkey visa for Colombians: according to the Colombian Foreign Ministry and the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombians with an ordinary passport do not need a visa to travel to Turkey as tourists, for up to 90 days. There is no e-Visa to pay for either. Argentines get the same rule. If you are already planning the trip, see our Turkey tour packages with hotel, airport transfer and guide, which can be arranged with a Spanish-speaking guide.

Information checked on 6 November 2026. Rate used on this page: USD 1 = COP 3,183 (the official TRM in force on 3 November 2026, the latest we could find). Peso figures are approximate and move with the dollar.

Do Colombians Need a Visa for Turkey in 2027?

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No, not for tourism. The visa information page for foreigners of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (mfa.gov.tr, checked on 6 November 2026) opens the Colombia entry like this: "Colombian nationals holding diplomatic, official and ordinary passport are exempted from visa", and limits it to travel of up to 90 days. In Spanish, the Colombian Foreign Ministry says it on its bilateral page with Türkiye: "Los nacionales colombianos no requieren visa para ingresar a Türkiye" (Colombian nationals do not require a visa to enter Türkiye).

The origin is a mutual visa-waiver agreement that the two governments signed for stays of up to 90 days with ordinary passports, which the Colombian ministry published in its press room. We did not find the entry-into-force date in an official source, so we do not give one. What matters for the traveller is that the rule is still in force on the Turkish page we checked this week.

One thing that causes confusion: several commercial sites still say Colombians need an e-Visa and charge between 35 and 55 dollars. That claim contradicts the two official sources above. We also tried to read evisa.gov.tr, but from our side only the home page loaded, without the country details, so we cannot cite it as confirmation. The practical advice is simple: before buying tickets, check those two pages and ask your airline. If anything changes, it will show up there first.

How to Get the Turkey e-Visa and Why a Colombian Normally Does Not Need One

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The only official e-Visa website is evisa.gov.tr. It is the Electronic Visa Application System of the Republic of Türkiye. The Turkish ministry states that the e-Visa is only valid when the purpose of travel is tourism or commerce. For a Colombian with an ordinary passport travelling as a tourist, the exemption makes that step unnecessary.

If for some reason your case does require an e-Visa, for example a passport other than the ordinary one or a companion of another nationality, apply only at evisa.gov.tr and check there the fee, the validity and whether it is single or multiple entry. We could not read those details on the official site, so we publish no fee or processing-time figures. If the address you are using does not end in gov.tr, it is not the official site.

Watch out for unofficial sites. There are intermediaries with almost identical designs that charge a surcharge for "processing" a visa you could get yourself at the official fee. In a Colombian's case, you most likely should not pay anything. If you land on a page asking for your card for a visa you do not need, close it. We do not process visas or invitation letters, and nobody should promise you that over the phone.

Entry Requirements at Istanbul Airport

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The only thing written on the official page is passport validity. The Turkish ministry advises travelling with a passport valid for at least 6 months, and since 1 January 2015 Turkish law (Law 6458) requires the document to be valid for at least 60 days after the end of the authorised stay. To be safe, carry 6 months of validity and one blank page. Unofficial sources give other figures (90 days, 150 days), so take the strictest.

Beyond the passport, immigration control at Istanbul Airport may ask for three things that we did not see listed in an official rule but that are routine at any border: a return ticket, the hotel address and some idea of how the trip is funded. This is our advice, not a confirmed rule.

• Ordinary passport with 6 months of validity.
• Ticket out of Turkey or onward.
• Booking for the first hotel night, printed or on your phone.
• A card or cash to cover trip expenses.

If you book a private airport transfer for USD 60 (about COP 190,000) from our catalogue, you reach the hotel without hunting for a taxi after a long flight. Istanbul tours also include hotel pickup.

Transit Visa in Istanbul for Colombians

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A Colombian does not need a transit visa in Istanbul. If you stay in the international zone of the airport and do not pass through immigration, none of the sources we checked asks for a transit visa. And if you decide to go out into the city on a long layover, you do not need a visa either, because your passport is already exempt for 90 days.

We confirmed the transit-zone rule only in secondary sources (travel guides and airline forums), not in a text from Turkish Airlines or from IGA, the airport operator. With Colombia's exemption the point loses importance, but if your layover includes a companion from another country, each person should check their own case with the airline.

There is a detail from April 2024 that comes from an alert by the firm KPMG, not from an official source: Turkey requires an electronic airport transit visa from passengers of certain countries when the final destination is Colombia, Mexico, Panama or Venezuela. It does not apply to Colombian passports, but it could affect a foreign relative. If your layover is long and you want to go into the city, see our Istanbul tours and leave a margin of several hours to get back to the airport.

Argentines: Visa-Free Entry to Turkey

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Turkey does not ask Argentines with an ordinary passport for a visa for stays of up to 90 days. The Argentina entry on mfa.gov.tr (checked on 6 November 2026) says that holders of ordinary and official passports are exempt from visa for travel of up to 90 days. It mentions neither an e-Visa nor the 180-day window.

The practical conditions match those for Colombians: a passport with enough validity, a return ticket and hotel details. One thing to compare with your situation: if you plan to stay more than 90 days or to work, the exemption is not enough and you must apply for another kind of visa or permit at a Turkish consulate before travelling.

To plan the route from Buenos Aires, see our guide to the trip to Turkey from Argentina. Package prices are in dollars, so they do not depend on the Argentine exchange rate.

If the e-Visa Does Not Apply: A Visa at the Consulate (Bogotá)

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If your trip is not tourism or commerce, or lasts more than 90 days, the visa is not obtained online. The Turkish ministry states that visas for other purposes, such as work or study, are issued by Turkish embassies and consulates. The guide of the Colombian Consulate in Ankara says that people living in Colombia submit the application at the Turkish consulate in Bogotá.

We could not open the embassy website in Bogotá (bogota.be.mfa.gov.tr) from our side, so we give no documents, fees or deadlines. Ask the consulate directly. For a longer stay there is the temporary residence permit, handled separately; commercial sources speak of several weeks of waiting, a figure we could not confirm in an official source.

For a short holiday none of this applies. A Colombian who goes for ten days to Istanbul and Cappadocia with a valid passport enters with no prior procedure.

After the Visa: Flights from Bogotá and Tours in Spanish

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With the visa question settled, what is left is the flight and the itinerary. Turkish Airlines is the airline associated with the Bogotá–Istanbul route; we did not verify schedules on its site, so confirm on the booking screen how many stops your date has. The budget for the flight and the whole trip is in our guide to how much a trip to Turkey from Colombia costs.

To build the route, our Istanbul tours and Cappadocia tours can be combined with the Turkey tour packages. Prices are per person, "from", from the catalogue of 6 November 2026. The flight from Colombia is not included.

A common first-time combination is the 8-day trip through Istanbul and Cappadocia, with hotel and transfers included. Our guides speak Spanish on request, and we confirm it in writing before payment; more detail on our page about the trip to Turkey from Colombia. You can also check the rule by country in our guide Do I Need a Visa for Turkey in 2027?.

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