Badboybez
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Interesting.
I had three, four week business trips to Turkey last year.
I was working in a city called Bursa, which involves a 1 1/2 hour drive, then 3/4 hour on a ferry, and finally another 2 hour drive after arriving at Istanbul Ataturk airport !
Anyway, to cut a long story short, vaping is not actually banned in Turkey.
I used to vape quite regularly at a few bars (in the outside seating area, as smoking has now been banned indoors, so much for the land of the shisha pipe.....) whilst walking down the street, and in the outside area of my hotel.
The swanky hotels by the way do not turn a blind eye to tourists vaping, its merely a matter of hotel policy, my swanky hotel did not allow it as the MD did not like it.
Quite a lot of the Turkish population vape.
Several of my drivers did, and one particular taxi driver explained the rules.
I do not now remember which way round it works, but the gist is one of the two below.
1) You can legally buy tanks, batteries, atomisers, etc, but you can not legally buy the juice.
2) You can legally buy juice, but you can not legally buy tanks, batteries, atomisers, etc.
So they buy what they can on the high street, and then order the other stuff via the internet from a nearby country, hoping it will not be confiscated by customs............
He was a skilled bloke by the way, he could steer the car, change gear, use his vaper, make a mobile phone call, and spit out of the window, all at the same time !!!!!
As far as the airport is concerned (istanbul ataturk) I my vape kit was in my top jacket pocket, not in a poly bag at security, not a word was said.
There is a smoking area after security, and I had no problems there, my only problem was when I landed back in the bloody UK again..........
I hope this is helpfull info if you ever go back to Turkey ;-))
