No visa needed

Do citizens of Greece need a visa for Turkey?

Citizens of Greece don’t need a visa for Turkey and can stay up to 90 days. You need a valid passport; border officers may ask for a return ticket and accommodation. For a longer stay you need a visa or an extension.

For citizens of Greece: the passport opens 120 countries visa-free; Athens — Ankara: ≈ 820 km, about 1.5 hours of flying.

Checked by visa analyst Albert Brown, 13 years of experience · September 26, 2026

At a glance

No visa needed

Stay: 90 days

Can I travel to Turkey without a visa on a Greece passport?

Yes, citizens of Greece don’t need a visa for Turkey for up to 90 days. A valid passport is enough.

Turkey visa rules at a glance

With a Greece passport you can visit 120 countries visa-free, 28 with a visa on arrival and 36 with an e-visa; 14 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Greece passport ranks 17th of 199.
Greece passport: visa-free access to 120 countries; Turkey passport: 71.
Citizens of Greece and Turkey can travel together visa-free to 64 countries, for example: North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Moldova, Tunisia, Palestine, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Morocco, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
Greece and Turkey share a border, so you can also travel overland.
Citizens of Turkey, in turn, need an embassy visa to travel to Greece. Greece visa for citizens of Turkey

Travelling to Turkey: good to know

Athens — Ankara: about 820 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 1.5 hours.
No time difference with your country’s capital.
Local currency: Turkish Lira.
Languages: Turkish.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ TRY 49.
Turkey is the 9th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Greece.