Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question: in April I have a 13 hour layover, flying MNL-IST-JFK in J. My plan was to go to the lounge, shower, leave my bags in a locker, and then go through passport control to go and visit the city. Is there a way to enter Turkey from the transit area? When I was there yesterday passport control seemed to be next to the transit security area downstairs. Will I need to go back downstairs to go through passport control?