Entry Bans & Restriction Codes · Turkey

Turkey Entry Ban Removal Lawyer — Lift Your Ban and Restriction Code

Administrative Court action to cancel entry bans and restriction codes recorded against foreign nationals in Turkey.

Turkey entry ban removal starts with the decision itself, the one you were never handed. You were turned back at passport control, or a consulate told you a code sits against your name. It can be challenged, but not forever.

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We request the decision and its restriction code from the Presidency of Migration Management first.

Can a Turkey Entry Ban Be Removed?

Quick answer

Yes. A Turkey entry ban is an administrative decision, and an Administrative Court can cancel it under Law No. 6458 on Foreigners and International Protection. You have 60 days from the day you are notified to file. Judgment normally follows within a year. Your restriction code, not the length of your overstay, drives both the argument and the fee.

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02 Is This Your Situation? → 03 The Law Behind Your Ban → 04 How Your File Runs → 05 What Entry Ban Removal Costs → 06 Where These Cases Are Won and Lost → 07 Entry Ban Questions We Are Asked Most →

Is This Your Situation?

What an entry ban actually is

An entry ban is a written decision recorded against your identity by the Presidency of Migration Management, usually carrying a short restriction code such as Ç-113, G-65 or V-164. The airline sees the block at check-in. You almost never see the decision. Our guide to restriction codes in Turkey explains what each family means, and how to check whether you are banned covers finding out before you buy a ticket. Ban work sits inside our wider immigration practice; if your problem is related to other immigration issues rather than a ban, start on our immigration law page instead.

What your file covers:

Getting the decision itself. We petition the provincial directorate that entered the record, because nobody can argue against a document they have never read.
Fixing the date the clock started. The 60-day period runs from notification, and in most files there is no proof that notification ever took place.
Choosing the route. Some codes can be lifted by application to the Presidency. Others only move in front of a judge, and applying first just burns weeks.
Keeping you out of it. A power of attorney is the only document you personally have to produce.

In Their Own Words

"I overstayed by eleven months, paid the fine when I left, and was still refused boarding two years later."
"I was deported from Istanbul Airport after a police check and nobody gave me a document explaining why."
"My residence permit application was refused, I did not leave in time, and now there is a Ç code on my record."
"I was convicted in Antalya years ago, served the sentence, and I cannot get back into my own apartment."
"My wife and children live in Turkey. I have been outside Turkey for three years and I cannot get in to see them."
"The consulate refused my visa and said only that there is a restriction against my name. Nobody will tell me the code."

The Law Behind Your Ban

Restriction codes are administrative practice, not statute, you will not find Ç-113 written anywhere in Turkish law. The ban sitting behind the code is written down, and so are its limits.

Law No. 6458, Article 9

Who Can Ban You, and For How Long

Article 9(1) lets the Presidency of Migration Management bar a foreigner on public order, public security or public health grounds. Article 9(2) makes a ban automatic for anyone deported. Article 9(3) caps it at five years, extendable by up to ten more where there is a serious threat, fifteen years is the ceiling, not an open term.

Read Law No. 6458 on mevzuat.gov.tr

Law No. 6458, Article 54

Why the Ban Was Issued

Article 54 lists who gets a deportation decision, and your restriction code maps onto one of its sub-paragraphs: 54(1)(e) for exceeding a visa or visa exemption by more than ten days, 54(1)(g) for the same overrun on a residence permit, 54(1)(ğ) for working without a work permit, 54(1)(c) for false documents.

See what each restriction code means

Law No. 2577, Articles 7 and 11

The Deadline That Decides Your Case

Article 7 gives you 60 days from notification to sue. Article 11 lets you apply to the authority first, which pauses the clock; silence for 60 days counts as refusal. Do not confuse this with a deportation decision, where Article 53(3) of Law No. 6458 allows only seven days and the court must rule within fifteen.

Read Law No. 2577 on mevzuat.gov.tr

How Your File Runs

The timings below are what the procedure allows, not a promise. We control the first three weeks. After that the calendar belongs to the Administrative Court.

Weeks 1–3

Before Anything Is Filed

Power of Attorney

Nothing starts until we hold a power of attorney from you. Our guide on issuing a power of attorney abroad for use in Turkey sets out what it must say. This is the only step that needs you personally.

Pulling Your Decision

We petition the provincial directorate of migration management that entered the record and ask for the decision, its legal ground and the code. Files stall here more than anywhere else, because the administration answers slowly or not at all.

Reading the Code

Ç codes usually mean overstay or permit violations. G codes point to a criminal or security ground. V, N and O codes each follow their own logic. The code tells us which article of Law No. 6458 we are arguing against.

Choosing the Route

Where Article 9(5) realistically allows the Presidency to lift the ban, we apply there first because it is faster and cheaper. Where the ground is public order or security, that application is a formality and the court is the real venue.

Month 1 onward

Once the Case Is in Court

Filing and the Stay Request

The petition goes to the Administrative Court through UYAP, the national judicial network. Where appropriate, we also request a stay of execution under Article 27 of Law No. 2577. Court fees and the service advance are paid at filing.

The Administration's Defence

The defendant has 30 days to reply under Article 16 of Law No. 2577, extendable once by 30 more for good cause.

If a Stay Was Requested

If a stay was requested, the court rules on that first. It needs two things at once: damage that would be hard or impossible to repair, and an act that is clearly unlawful. Refusal is not a lost case, the cancellation claim carries on regardless.

Judgment: Deletion or Appeal

If the ban is cancelled, the judgment does not clear the system by itself: we push the deletion through with the Presidency and obtain written confirmation. If the claim is dismissed, we appeal to the regional administrative court within 30 days.

What Entry Ban Removal Costs

We do not publish attorney fees, because a five-year overstay code and a fifteen-year security code are not the same piece of work. What we can publish is every cost fixed by law, and what actually moves the rest.

Official Costs You Pay to the State

Court fees

Two fixed fees set under Tariff 3 of the Fees Act No. 492 and reset every January

Service advance

An advance for postal service of court documents, paid into the file when the petition is lodged

Bar stamp

A bar association stamp on the power of attorney, set by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations

Notary and apostille

Turkish consulate tariff, or your own notary plus a Hague apostille

Sworn translation

A sworn translation, certified by a notary, for every document not in Turkish

How Our Fee Is Structured

Fixed fee

The default. Agreed in writing before we start, for one restriction code.

No hourly billing

We do not bill by the hour. An hourly total is not predictable, and no client should meet a figure nobody could have quoted at the start.

Until the judgment is final

The file stays our responsibility until the judgment is final, appeal included. We ask for nothing beyond the fixed fee agreed at the start.

What Moves the Total, in Order

1. Why it was issued

An overstay is argued differently from a public-order or security ground, and the evidence needed is not the same

2. How long it runs

The shorter the remaining term, the narrower the argument. A ban running to its statutory ceiling needs more evidence than one with a year left.

3. How deep the file goes

Whether the decision, its legal ground and any underlying record all have to be obtained before anything can be argued

There is a legal floor under all of this. The Minimum Attorney Fee Tariff, published every year in the Official Gazette by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, is the lowest fee a Turkish lawyer may agree to; Article 164 of the Attorneys Act No. 1136 makes anything below it unenforceable. Anyone quoting under the tariff is quoting something they cannot deliver.

You send your documents first, then we give you a fee

We ask for the ban decision and its restriction code before quoting, because the code decides whether this is a single petition or a two-stage court case.

Ask What Your Code Costs

Where These Cases Are Won and Lost

Three of our files, with client details removed. Each turned on a single point nobody had checked before we opened the record.

One Ban Expired, Another Was Still Live

A client with a Ç-103 overstay code asked us to check whether the ban was still live. It was not, the term had run out. But a second ban was active, tied to an unpaid overstay fine, and nobody had spotted it. We had the fine served, paid it at the tax office under the power of attorney, then petitioned the Migration Management with the original receipt. The ban came off and the client flew in.

A Five-Year Ban Annulled in Four Months

A client who entered Turkey legally in 2021 on a work permit could not renew it, overstayed, and was given a five-year ban at exit. We argued that an overstay on its own is no threat to public order, security or health under Article 9, and that it had been applied automatically, with no individual assessment. The court annulled it within four months — see the full overstay ban case study.

Banned Over an Investigation That Cleared the Client

This ban rested on a criminal investigation in the client's home country. What the decision ignored was the outcome: no finding was ever made against the client. We sued on that point, filed the foreign decisions clearing the client, and the court cancelled the ban.

I asked you to check whether there were any entry restrictions in place before I entered Turkey, and you were incredibly helpful and attentive. I am deeply grateful for your management of all the necessary fine payment procedures, ensuring my safe entry into the country. Attorney Kaymaz was responsive and reassuring even from a distance. He issued accurate receipts for all payments, and the legal procedures were handled with surprising speed.

I. Mansour Google review

From Our Legal Guides

Entry Ban Guides for Foreigners

Restriction Codes

Restriction Codes in Turkey: What Each Ç, G, N, O and V Code Means

See the full code table

Appeals & Court

How to Appeal an Entry Ban to Turkey, Step by Step

Read the appeal procedure

Check Your Status

How to Check if You Are Banned from Entering Turkey

Check before you book a flight

After Deportation

Can You Re-enter Turkey After Deportation? Exceptions and Legal Routes

See when re-entry is possible

Overstay Bans

How to Lift a Turkey Visa Overstay Entry Ban

Read the overstay route

Airport Refusal

The Inadmissible Passenger Form and What It Leaves on Your Record

Understand the airport form

Banned Because of an Overstay?

Calculate Your Turkey Overstay Fine and Ban Length

Enter the date you entered Turkey and the date you actually left. The calculator returns the fine under the current tariff and the ban band that comes with it.

Entry Ban Questions We Are Asked Most

The questions foreigners send us before they hire anybody.

How can an entry ban be removed from Turkey?

Two routes. You can ask the Presidency of Migration Management to lift the ban under Article 9(5) of Law No. 6458, or you can file a cancellation action at an Administrative Court under Law No. 2577. Which one fits depends on your restriction code: a Ç overstay code and a G security code are argued in completely different ways.

How long does it take to get an entry ban lifted in Turkey?

Filing takes days once we hold your power of attorney and the decision. After that the timetable belongs to the court. The defendant administration has 30 days to submit its defence under Article 16 of Law No. 2577, extendable once by a further 30. A first-instance judgment normally arrives within six months of filing.

What happens if I miss the 60-day deadline?

Missing it is not fatal. An entry ban restricts freedom of movement, a fundamental right, and settled Council of State case law lets you ask the administration to lift it at any time. If it refuses, or stays silent for 30 days, Article 10 of Law No. 2577 opens a fresh 60-day period to sue.

Can I enter Turkey while my case is ongoing?

No. Filing does not suspend the ban. Only a stay of execution under Article 27 of Law No. 2577 changes your position, and the court grants it only where implementation would cause damage that is hard to repair and the act is clearly unlawful. Until you have that in writing, do not attempt to travel.

Can a lawyer remove my Turkey entry ban while I stay abroad?

Yes. This is a file-based administrative case, not a hearing you attend. You sign a power of attorney. Everything after that such as petitions, the administration's defence, the judgment, the deletion is handled from Turkey.

How much does an entry ban removal lawyer cost in Turkey?

There is a legal floor: the Minimum Attorney Fee Tariff published each year in the Official Gazette by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations. No Turkish lawyer may agree a fee below it. Above that floor the drivers are your restriction code, whether a criminal file has to be obtained, and whether family members carry codes of their own.

I am banned from Turkey for 5 years can anything be done before it expires?

Yes. Article 9(3) of Law No. 6458 sets five years as the standard ceiling, which the Presidency may extend by up to ten more where there is a serious threat to public order or security. The duration is part of the decision, and the decision can be challenged. Waiting out the term is a choice, not an obligation.

Does getting a new passport remove a Turkey entry ban?

No. The ban is recorded against you as a person, through the identity data, not against a booklet. A new passport number changes nothing at passport control, and turning up with one is itself a ground for deportation under Article 54 of Law No. 6458.

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Send us the date you were refused, the airport or consulate where it happened, and your restriction code if you have it. We will tell you which route applies to that code and how to file.

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