Businesspeople from Turkey don't need visas, Dutch court says
 
 
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19 June 2013 Wednesday
 
 
 
 
 
 

Businesspeople from Turkey don't need visas, Dutch court says

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15 March 2012 /TODAY'S ZAMAN
Turkish citizens visiting the Netherlands on business cannot be asked to present an entry visa and they can stay in the country without a residence permit for up to three months, a high Dutch administrative court ruled on Thursday.

The Dutch Council of State rejected an appeal by the Dutch Ministry of Migration and Refugees against an earlier ruling that businesspeople do not need entry visas, given by a lower court in February 2011 in a case filed by Cahit Yilmaz, a Turkish businessman.

The high court said the visa requirement for Turkish businesspeople violated the Ankara Agreement signed between Turkey and the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1963 and an additional protocol dated 1973.

Yilmaz's lawyers described the ruling as "historic and a first" in Europe, saying that the case set a precedent.

Despite the court ruling, lawyers advised Turkish businesspeople to obtain a visa before coming to the Netherlands, saying it would take time for Dutch officials to amend the related laws to conform to the ruling.
 
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If the people of Holland is basing their views of Turks on their contact with "DutchTurk" and his fellows, I can not blame them for being sceptical. Not many Turks would put up with such radicals here either. A few facists in MHP maybe, but the rest would not.
Smuth
More propaganda comments Fake People, who just don't make sense in their comments and yet YOU print these out, you are not Turkish
Knobody Just Anybody
San. How do you define entrepreneurs?
Curious
Sherman. What on earth do the 35 forbes turks got to do with Holland? Personally I would have been happier to see less billionaires and a higher minimum salary. Say a note on the wall the otehr day, "This establishment pays the minimum salary of 872 TL" which is 500 USD. I would have been happier if...
Care for people not Forbes
I only have to read the vulgar language of our neo-nazi GeneralSherman why people are not pleased to opem their borders for people like him. And go read who has the most millionaires in the world. Business people, students, everybody with good intentions must be welcome, not the scum a la Sherman. P...
Johan
@gekke gerrit, Your even "gekker" than your nick name, the Dutch and Turkish business men/women are mutually profiting from the businesses they start in Turkey or either in Holland. There are more than 2000 Dutch businesses active in Turkey which makes the Dutch in the top of Turkish business partne...
DutchTurk
The lawyers' advice is no doubt sound. But how much "time" can it take for Dutch officials to amend their procedures? More foot-dragging by enlightened Europeans-- or barking racists like the previous commenter?
Kathleen
Hey gekke gerrit, why the racist comments? Turks are the minority with the most entrepeneurs in the Netherlands so... mond houden
San
gekke gerrit, read the article "35 Turks ranked among Forbes Magazine’s billionaires list". Oh, and go kill yourself, you moronic dutch retarded loser. I think you have the Turks confused with your kurdish/armenian boyfriends, dutch idiot.
GeneralSherman
Vaker de krant lezen en uit die ivoren toren gerrit. Read the news paper more often Gerrit, Turkish businessmen are everywhere...
Chris
Does this include drugdealers and human traffickers? I wouldn't know of any turkish "businessmen" except kebab sellers.
gekke gerrit
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