Turkey gears up efforts to lift travel restrictions from Europe

Published 21 Jun,2020 via Hürriyet Daily News - Turkey has geared up efforts to lift travel restrictions imposed by European nations to benefit from the looming tourism season as the foreign and tourism ministers are bound for Germany to promote virus-free touristic facilities which they introduced to around more than 50 ambassadors and foreign media over the weekend.

“We are obliged to continue our dialogue with Germany. We will visit [Germany] together with our Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy. Our minister has penned a letter about this issue and explained all the measures taken by us,” Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told a press conference in the southern province of Antalya over the weekend, accompanied on a visit by foreign diplomats and journalists.

Çavuşoğlu said he spoke with his German counterpart Heiko Mass for the establishment of a joint experts’ committee so that they can observe all the measures imposed by the government and the touristic resorts against the novel coronavirus. “We feel disappointed over certain issues, but I don’t think they will negatively affect our bilateral relations,” he added.