Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Minister of Culture and Tourism made an in-situ inspection of the activities performed by Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) at Kapıkule Border Gate to reduce waiting times and making entries and exits from/to Turkey comfortable, and Minister Ersoy came together with the citizens there.

Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Minister of Culture and Tourism made an in-situ inspection of the welcoming and seeing off activities performed by Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) at Kapıkule Border Gate to reduce waiting times and making entries and exits from/to Turkey comfortable. Minister Ersoy spoke with the citizens at the Border Gate and told them that YTB has formed stands both beyond the border and at border gates to greet and see off citizens who live abroad and want to spend their vacations in their homeland and that YTB also offers support through translation and consultancy services to solve the problems they face during their travels. President of YTB, Abdullah Eren also accompanied Minister Ersoy.

BIGGEST BORDER GATE AFTER THAT OF MEXICA

Stating that Kapıkule Border Gate is the second biggest and dense border gate of the world after that of Mexica, Minister Ersoy said that YTB and the Governorate of Edirne are working intensely to meet the demands of our citizens. Underlining that there is heavy traffic since entries to Bulgaria are slow, Minister Ersoy continued his words: “Our governorate worked hard this year in order to switch to reservation and parking system. Here, YTB is offering treats. We shall increase our practices each year and improve them. Despite how much we make the border gate comfortable, in the end this a is border crossing to another state. Since Bulgaria cannot perform the services as fast as we can, in summer time when our expats produce heavy traffic, there are queues and great accumulation of people. Hence, we will work with Bulgaria for activities to ease the traffic and render it faster, along with our own work on systems and software that will allow our expats that have to wait here to come in queues. If we can create a transition period in conformance with the capacity of Bulgaria government, then we can reduce the wait time of our expats.”

CITIZENS ARE HAPPY WITH THE PRACTICES

Asking the citizens if they are happy with the practices, Minister Ersoy received congratulations regarding the practices from the expats he has met.
Mustaf İrep, traveling from Isparta to Germany with his family, stated that the parking lot is immense and this allowed them to continue their road feeling rested. Uğur Akkoyun traveling to Belgium stated that Bulgaria received the incomers very slowly, and that a solution has to be found.

TAKING HADJI MURAT TO GERMANY

Minister Ersoy spoke with Engin Yiğit from Sivas, travelling with his car modeled Murat 124, commonly referred to as Hadjia (Pilgrim) Murat in Turkey, which he has bought in 7 thousand TL in Sivas, and spent 50 thousand TL more for modification. Yiğit, traveling alone in his turquoise colored vehicle said that this Murat 124 model car is a passion for him and that he has spent an important amount of money for it.