Turkey resumed its passenger flights with Bangladesh on Saturday, after nearly nine weeks of suspension.

According to the Turkish Embassy in Dhaka, passengers will now be able to board the flights of Turkish Airlines and that of others to travel from Bangladesh to Turkey.

The passengers travelling from Bangladesh will have to submit their negative PCR test results taken 72 hours before their arrival to Turkey.

If people – travelling from Bangladesh or those who have been in the country for the last 14 days – can prove that they were vaccinated with a minimum of two doses of vaccines which have been granted emergency use authorisation by either the World Health Organisation (WHO) or Turkey (two doses of Sinovac, BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Sinopharm; one dose of Johnson & Johnson) and 14 days have passed since the application of the last dose, will be exempted from quarantine during their entry into Turkey.

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Those who cannot prove that they were vaccinated with minimum of two doses of vaccines (one dose for Johnson & Johnson) – which have been granted emergency use authorisation by either the WHO or Turkey – and 14 days have passed since the application of the last dose, will need to quarantine at their residences or addresses after entering Turkey.

They will get PCR tested on the 10th day; if the test results are negative, the home quarantine will be lifted. Those who do not get PCR tested on the 10th day will stay in home quarantine for 14 days.

The people whose test results come out positive will follow instructions published by the General Directorate of Public Health under the Ministry of Health of Turkey.

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Passengers under 12 years of age will be exempted from submitting PCR test results and vaccination certificates.

Flight-ship crew, seafarers – identified as essential workers and truck drivers – will be exempted from submitting PCR test results and vaccination certificates.

On July 6, Turkey halted flights and direct travel from Bangladesh due to new variants of the Covid-19.