- The official language in Turkey is the Turk though we will not have problems English, French or German to report to us if we speak.

 - If we are going to photograph a person it's very important that we ask for permission him. Normally they will give it to us ado but if we do it without his permission we can offend him.

 - The passport is indispensable with at least 3 months of validity.

 - The possession and traffic of narcotics this one hardly punished by the Turkish legislation, included the possession for the own consumption.

 - In Turkey the majority of the population is Moslem though they coexist with other religious cultures as Christian and orthodox.

 - When you visit some mosque you have to take off the shoes. Also it's adapted, if there go women, who go with long trousers and a handkerchief to cover the head, but they will put theirs tricks to enter the sacred places.

 - It'is habitual to see cemeteries in some parks of the cities and we must be respectful in these places. 

 - The official currency of Turkey is the Turkish lira that is divided in 100 kurush. There are coins of 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 Kurush and 1 lira and bills of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 liras.

 - We can change currency into banks, foreign exchange offices and into the majority of hotels or into airports.

 - It's suitable to take liras since in many establishments they do not accept credit cards. In case of accepting the most common they are (VISA, American Express and Mastercard).

 - Turkey is a sure country and is habitual to see the police to patrol for the street, nevertheless it is good take measurements to avoid thefts since they can be not make either ostentation of money or jewels, have care with our properties or not go for solitary places especially by night.

 - In many trades they accept Euros and dollars though they apply a change very good for him. If they accept Euros it's better that we negotiate the price directly in Euros like that we will avoid abuses.

 - It's habitual stops a gratuity of 10 % of the total amount of the invoice if we think that we have received a good attention.

 - Other one of the habitual practices is the bargaining at the moment of buying a product. Only to say that if they accept our price and we do not buy they will feel very offended by alone what we must haggle if we are ready to buy the product if they accept our price.

 - It's not necessary any vaccine to enter to the country.

 - Take tablets for the diarrhea as well as some repellent one of insects.

 - It's better to drink water bottled to avoid gastric problems. The previous recommendation includes also to avoid to take ulnae of ice.

 - The climate in Turkey depends much on the zone that we visit.

  - In summer it's in the habit of being a very warm climate for what it is suitable to take cool clothes.

  - In the Asian zone it's colder in summer and extremely cold in winter being suitable to take clothes of coat especially in winter.

  - The zone of the Black Sea is very rainy all the year round.

 - A good way of transport to move for the city of Istanbul is the taxi that was billing us for kilometres not per time.

 - To move between cities we can take the bus that they are in the habit of being comfortable and modern.

 - The railroad is not in the habit of being a very advisable option, only if we do the distance Istanbul - Ankara.

 - If we want rapidity, we move between the principal cities of the country and are ready to pay a slightly top price the best way of transport is the plane.

 - To be call Spain we can do it from a cabin but before it is necessary to buy the card that allows to do the call from the cabin. This one is obtained in post offices or kiosks.

 - The prices are raised enough for the international calls. Remember that to call Spain it must mark 0034 followed with the subscriber number.

 - The mobiles with technology GSM can work in Turkey though we must inform ourselves well about the conditions calling to our company of mobile telephony that was informing us about all the steps to realizing and tariffs to have coverage in Turkey.

 - Another option to communicate are the cybercafes that abound in the big cities and are much more economic than a call of telephone.

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