{"id":342,"date":"2026-01-01T15:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/?p=342"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:28:54","slug":"on-the-55th-anniversary-of-the-establishment-of-diplomatic-relations-turkiye-announced-visa-free-for-chinese-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/on-the-55th-anniversary-of-the-establishment-of-diplomatic-relations-turkiye-announced-visa-free-for-chinese-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"On the 55th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, T\u00fcrkiye Announced Visa-Free for Chinese Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>,Just hours before the New Year, T\u00fcrkiye announced that as of <strong>2 January 2026<\/strong>, citizens of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) will be granted <strong>visa-free entry for up to 90 days within any 180-day period<\/strong>. According to the decision published in the <strong>Official Gazette on 31 December<\/strong>, bearing the signature of President <strong>Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/strong>, holders of <strong> passports<\/strong> of the PRC will be allowed to travel to T\u00fcrkiye for <strong>touristic purposes and transit<\/strong> with a maximum stay of 90 days within every 180-day period, effective from 2 January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision, which coincides with the <strong>55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between T\u00fcrkiye and the People\u2019s Republic of China<\/strong>, has been interpreted as a positive development for bilateral relations. In addition, the visa exemption is expected to encourage an increase in the number of Chinese tourists visiting T\u00fcrkiye. Chinese tourists often refer to T\u00fcrkiye as a \u201cromantic country\u201d or \u201cromantic T\u00fcrkiye,\u201d and show strong interest in destinations such as <strong>Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Ephesus, and Istanbul<\/strong>. The song <em>\u201cI Want to Take You to Romantic T\u00fcrkiye\u201d<\/em> by Chinese singer <strong>Xiao Zhang<\/strong> is widely known across China, and <strong>hot air balloons<\/strong> are among the first images that come to mind when T\u00fcrkiye is mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the decision, <strong>China\u2019s Ambassador to Ankara, Jiang Xuebin<\/strong>, stated on his social media account on X:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201dWe warmly welcome T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s decision to grant visa-free entry to Chinese citizens, a wonderful gift as we celebrate the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and T\u00fcrkiye! I\u2019m sure this important step will further promote people-to-people exchanges and deepen the time-honored friendship between our two countries<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9g-U5maMAEdw7l.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-343\" style=\"width:478px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9g-U5maMAEdw7l.png 625w, https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9g-U5maMAEdw7l-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>,Just hours before the New Year, T\u00fcrkiye announced that as of 2 January 2026, citizens of the People\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,12,10,13],"tags":[16,90,21,23,46,22,128,129],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-guide","category-china-news","category-culture-travel","category-news","category-turkey-china-relations","tag-china","tag-china-news","tag-news","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-chinese-relations","tag-turkiye","tag-visa","tag-visa-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}