e-petition to ensure short term visa exemption to Turkish tourists

A court in Munich ruled last month that Turkish Citizens do not require a visa to travel to Germany for short term stays (3 months). A similar decision was made by a court in the Netherlands some days later. Turkish citizens have been given the legal right to travel to travel to EU countries without a visa for touristic or business purposes (i.e. for 3 months) by two treaties signed between Turkey and the EU in 1964 and 1973. Nevertheless, this fact is being deliberately and unlawfully overlooked by European governments for the last 30 years. As a result, Turkish citizens wishing to travel to the EU are being forced to go through tiresome and humiliating, and sometimes even grotesque procedures in order to secure tourists visas. Even today, the German government is choosing to ignore and not implement the binding ruling made by the Munich court. There is an online petition aiming to bring this issue to the attention of the German parliament.

50,000 SIGNATURES MUST BE COLLECTED BY 13.04.2011 IN ORDER FOR THIS ISSUE TO BE DISCUSSED AND RESOLVED IN THE GERMAN BUNDESTAG.

ANYONE CAN SIGN THE PETITION; THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT TO BE A GERMAN CITIZEN OR TO LIVE IN GERMANY.

How to sign the petition:

Click on the link: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/index.php?action=petition;sa=details;petition=16662

Unfortunately, this service provided by the parliament is only in German. Non-German speakers please follow these instructions. First you have to register; don’t worry your personal information is protected by the German data protection act. Your personal data may and will not be forwarded to or shared with any other persons or institutions. Click on registreiren which you will see above the password field. Your username will be assigned by the system. Fill in only the sections marked with bold*. From top to bottom these fields are e-mail (twice), password (twice), title (frau/ms or here/mr), surname, given name, street name and house number, postcode,city/town, country. Tick Ich bin einverstanden to declare that you agree to the German data protection act. Finally, type the colorful letters in the security box at the bottom and click on registreiren. You will then receive an e-mail containing your username. This will be the word following phrase “Ihr Benutzername lautet”. Usually it will be something like Nutzerxxxxxx (a number). There is also a link in the e-mail which you’ll have to click in order to activate your account. Once you log in, either find the petition number 16662 -Aufenthaltsrecht - Visumsfreiheit für türkische Touristen from the list or go back to the original link above. Once you’ve reached the petition page click on petition mitzeichen which is located below the Anzahl Mitzeichnungen

Congratulations, that was it! In order to sign out click on Ausloggen next your username at the top. You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail notifying you that you have signed the petition.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

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