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Her Majesty's Ambassador at Ankara to the Turkish Minister for
Your Excellency,
Foreign Affairs
British Embassy,
Ankara, March 1st, 1960.
I have the honour to refer to the Exchange of Notes of the 9th of October, 1952, constituting an Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Turkey for the reciprocal abolition of visas for travel to the United Kingdom and Turkey.(')
2. Acting upon instructions from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, I am to state that, in accordance with their policy of extending the freedom of travel, the Government of the United Kingdom now wish to propose an Agreement in the following terms to replace that of the 9th of October, 1952:
(a) Turkish citizens holding valid Turkish passports shall be free to travel from any place whatever to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and to any of the territories named in the Annex to the present Note (hereafter together referred to as "British territories") without the necessity of obtaining a visa in advance.
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(b) (i) Subject to sub-paragraph (ii) of this paragraph, British subjects and British Protected Persons holding valid passports bearing on the cover the inscription "British Passport at the top, and at the bottom the inscription United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" or "Jersey or Guernsey and its Depen- dencies or the name of a British territory listed in the Annex to the present Note and, inside, the description of the holder's national status as British subject" or "British subject: citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or "British subject: citizen of the United Kingdom, Islands and Colonies or British subject: citizen of the State of Singapore or British Protected Person of.... [name of British territory concerned . . . .]" shall be free to travel from any place whatever to Turkey without the necessity of obtaining a visa.
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(ii) When, however, a British subject or a British Protected Person wishes to take up employment or to exercise a profession or other occupation in Turkey, a visa shall be obtained in advance.
(c) (i) It is understood that the waiver of the visa requirement does not exempt Turkish citizens travelling to any British territory or British subjects and British Protected Persons travelling to Turkey from complying, respectively, with the British and Turkish laws and regulations regarding the entry, residence (temporary or permanent) and employment or occupation of foreigners, and that travellers who are unable to satisfy the competent
(1) "Treaty Series No. 60 (1952)”, Cmd. 8689.
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