Turkish visa extension in a few easy steps

So as it was explained a bit earlier, as hungarian citizen you can basically get only a one month visa, and it's certainly not enough for Turkey. so when the time approached we were looking for options how to solve the problem. exiting-reentering the country is the easiest way so i only needed to choose the country.

the options were Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria. Cyprus left the list fast as it takes some money to get there from turkey by ferry. Bruno arrived from Greece he told me the how to, but only by bike, but it was an option too, but finally i decided for Bulgaria as Michelle showed me a previous report how to do it:

so how to get a new visa to Turkey:

• start from Istanbul (until then you can easily get with the really comfortable and cheap coaches)
• take a bus to Edirne; 2,5 hours for 20 TL
• the bus will arrive to the Otogar (bus station) that is out of the city, but there are free service buses. if you take a Metro bus, the service bus takes you to the center of Edirne. from there here is a map drawn by a shopkeeper and i added a few additional things that can help to find the minibus stop where from you have to take a bus to Kapikule (the border village to Bulgaria)
• the minibus costs 2,5 TL goes really rarely so you have to wait for a while even 20-25 mins, but then the bus itself takes 20 mins too only, and takes you directly to the border
• walk straight to the border, exit the country. then it is important, that if you are EU citizen you don't have to enter Bulgaria, you can simply turn back.(the easiest is to go in the big shopping center and exit it on the other side and you are directly on the turkish entry side)
• buy your visa stamp at the 92 gate
• with your new visa go to any of the open police checking gates (passport control), and cars are probably stopping there anyway
• try to skip the costum control (smile at the officer and then they will take you in front of the cars as they deal a lot with cars and you shouldn't waste your time there)
• welcome to Turkey again!

the whole procedure from getting of the service bus in Edirne until getting back to Edirne center shouldnt take more than 2 hours, but it depends a lot on how fast the minibus comes. the border part itself took around 30 minutes for me. though probably during the summer it can be longer.

so that's it. no big deal.

ahh and i got accidentally a 90 days visa for a duration of 180 days, so maybe it worth to enter Turkey already from Bulgaria if you plan to stay longer than 30 days.