Originally Posted by
hfly
Unfortunately that advice is not very good. Currently when many people call Turkish Embassies abroad, they are being directed to consular lines, which bounce back to a call center in Ankara. When it is apparent that the MFA Ankara call center is not able to properly answer, they direct the caller to call the mission abroad again.............
Unfortunately you are right but it is the only advice that counts. At this point it is clearly YMMV at best. One can decide to take the risk or not but you aren't going to get a better answer anyplace else.