Before you can get a phone or have Internet hooked up in Turkey, you must have a Turkish residence ID. In order obtain this ID, you must have a very nice Turkish friend help you to do the following:
• Have 4 passport photos
• Make photocopies of your passport
• Have proof of employment (contract)
• After the 5 day holiday, get a ride to the police station
• Find block D after you pass through security
• Wait in line to complete an application for a residence ID
• Write a statement in Turkish of why you want a residence permit (Only one reason for the Turkish friend and, no, “to get internet and a phone number” are not good enough reasons)
• Find the notary and have the statement notarized
• Find block E and stand in line to pay the equivalent of about $150
• Find the cash machine to withdraw $150
• Return to the counter at block E and give the guy $150
• Go to the cafeteria to buy a pink folder for $0.60
• Return to the counter at block D and wait in line to pay $85
• Be thankful you already had that money
• Put everything in the pink folder and submit
• Wait one week . . .
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