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Automated
teller (cash) machines (cashpoints,
bancomats) are everywhere in
Turkish cities, airports, and even
in most small towns.
Choose
your language: Turkish or
English for sure, and sometimes
French and German. Just push a
button to get screen prompts in
your language.
North
Americans! Note that Turkish
ATM keypads usually do not have alphabetical
keys (ABC for
2, DEF for 3, etc: see the keypad
at lower right on this page). If
your PIN/password is actually a word,
and you're used to pressing the
letter keys, you'll have
to translate your password into
numbers. Make
a note now of
the numbers from
this USA keypad:
Your
home-bank account will be debited
for the amount you withdraw from
a Turkish ATM (plus a service charge,
of course).
Because bank
card fraud is a big problem
in Turkey, there is a chance that
your home bank may limit or deny
use of your ATM/cash/debit card
in Turkey. Some travelers report
that after one use in Turkey, their
cards were ineffective. Talk
to officials at your bank—in
particular the Card Fraud Division—to
make sure this does not happen
to you. (Also, see the Cautionary
Tale below.)
Even
if they tell you all is well, you
may still find your charges denied,
so take
your bank's contact information with
you so you can contact them
and yell at them for not helping
you.
Some
elaborate cash machines issue Turkish
liras, euros or US dollars, as you
wish, but I wonder about
the service fees...
Sometimes
there are glitches: the machine
doesn't recognize your card, your
bank or your account, or the data
lines or computers are insufficient
to handle the data traffic. Try later,
or try some other bank's cash machine.
More...
Note
that some machines may not process
your transaction on Sunday because
your bank may be closed. You may
want to get money before Sunday.
A
tip: figure out how many liras you
want to withdraw before you
step up to the cash machine. Do a
quick conversion in your head (exchange
rates) because you probably "think" in
your own currency, but the machine
will ask you how many liras you
want to withdraw.
Cautionary Tale
A
TTP user from Canada had a serious
problem withdrawing money from ATMs in
Turkey. Here's his story.
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