Originally Posted by
ISTFlyer
The EU visa of your son has nothing to do with Turkey and the Turkish border officials wouldn't even care about it. Turkey is not in the Schengen zone or the EU so this is nothing to bother with.
Also for your 14 year old son, does he have an existing Turkish e-visa or are we speaking about another visa. By the way, mfa.gov.tr is the official government site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and I would trust that rather than any external source.
Thanks for settling my anxiety re the EU visa of son. I think the language I was looking at was maybe if someone was using the Schengen visa as their travel doc for entry (instead of their main passport from another country outside EU that has different requirements??). Anyway, sounds like Turkey won't care. Excellent.
14 year old other son does not have any visa whatsoever (I accidentally typed that UGH). US passport only. Looking back, I think my math was wrong. His passport expires Jan 21, 2024, which is actually 189 days after entry date of July 16, 2023 to Turkey. So within the 180 day, 6 months, or 150 days. Good grief. I think I'm having so much doubt bc of all the changes and chaos this trip has already wrought. I'm going to go ahead and complete the evisa app for him now. I'll do his first. Presumably they will accept a minor child app separate from parent's. And presumably reject it if any passport issue. I need a scotch now.