Travel Health Insurance for Turkey: Cover for Tourists and Visitors

Who needs travel health insurance for Turkey?

If you live in Turkey and are travelling abroad, for example on a Schengen visa, you need a different policy.

• Holidaymakers staying in Antalya, Alanya, Kemer, Side or Belek
• Parents, partners and relatives visiting family who live in Turkey
• Visitors on short business trips, trade fairs or conferences
• Travellers whose Turkish visa application asks for travel health insurance

Leaving Turkey: travel insurance for Schengen and trips abroad →

Why visitors to Turkey need their own cover

Turkey has good private hospitals, and resort areas such as Antalya have many of them. As a foreign visitor you are treated as a private patient and pay the full cost of consultations, tests and any hospital stay. The cases we see most in summer are stomach infections, heat exhaustion, pool and sea accidents and road accidents; even one night in hospital can cost more than the holiday.

The EHIC and the UK GHIC do not work in Turkey, because Turkey is not part of the EU or EEA. Health cover from your home country often does not pay for treatment in Turkey, or refunds only part of it later. A travel health policy is what the hospital and the assistance company work with directly.

What is covered and what is not

Exact benefits and limits depend on the plan; we send the policy terms with every quote. As a general guide for travel health policies:

Travel insurance for Turkey: what decides the price

There is no single price, and we do not publish a figure here because the premium is calculated per person and per date. Send us the details below and we reply with the exact price the same working day.

• Length of stay: more days, higher premium
• Age of each traveller
• The plan and cover limit you choose
• Number of people insured for the same dates

Is travel insurance required to enter Turkey?

It depends on your nationality and the type of visa. Many visitors enter visa-free or with an e-Visa and are not asked for insurance at the border. For visa applications made at a Turkish consulate, health insurance covering the stay may be requested. Check the current list of the consulate handling your application and tell us what it asks for.

Required or not, the practical reason is the same: without insurance, you pay private hospital bills yourself.

Not the same as residence permit insurance

A travel policy is for short visits and is not accepted for a residence permit (ikamet) application. The migration authority, Göç İdaresi, requires a separate health insurance with its own conditions, valid for the whole permit period.

If you decide to stay in Turkey and apply for a permit, contact us before the application and we will arrange the right policy.

Staying longer: health insurance for your residence permit →

How to get your policy

You do not need to be in Turkey: you can arrange the policy from abroad before you travel, with the start date set to your day of arrival. You can write to us in English, Russian, German or Turkish. Our office is in Kepez, Antalya, and you are welcome to visit, but everything can be done by message.

1. Send us a photo of the passport photo page and the date of birth of each traveller by WhatsApp.
2. Tell us your dates of arrival in and departure from Turkey.
3. We reply with the price and the policy terms.
4. After you confirm, we issue the policy and email it to you as a PDF.

If you fall ill in Turkey

1. In a life-threatening emergency, call 112 or go to the nearest emergency department.
2. As soon as you can, call the assistance number on your policy; they direct you to a hospital.
3. Keep your passport and policy number with you.
4. Keep the originals of all invoices, reports and prescriptions.
5. If anything is unclear, call us and we will help you through it.