Hello
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Originally Posted by MarteFekkes
Also very curious how the (transit) visa situation for Turkmenistan is!
Could you perhaps ask for a Tourist visum in, say, Tehran?
Or a transit visum on the border?
Travelling from Netherlands towards Singapore by motorcycle  , coming months!
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Originally Posted by patdeavoll
Has anyone applied for a visa for Turkmenistan recently?
I will be travelling across Turkmen in mid June and need a transit visa but am having trouble getting a consulate to reply to my emails regarding fees etc.
I have emailed the London, Berlin and Frankfurt consulates and heard nothing.
Can anyone suggest the best consulate to apply to? 
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We crossed Turkmenistan from Iran in 2016 and I got the following information from the Turkmen embassy in Switzerland (by phone): "You are expected to apply in your country of residence. If there is no Turkmen embassy in your country of residence, you may choose another Turkmen embassy."
Generally I try calling embassies instead of sending e-mails because e-mails are easier to ignore. In fact, most of them don't respond to e-mails, in my experience.
So, we applied for our Turkmen transit visas in Ankara for pick-up in Tehran, about 3 weeks later. They were even so friendly to give us somebody else's application letter to copy. I have a copy on request. We got a reference number by e-mail a few weeks later (after me asking about the status of the application, by e-mail  ), which we used to get the visa in Tehran. This took only a few hours locally in Tehran.
In Tehran you never really access the embassy. Everything is done through a mysterious hatch at the outside of the building. Be a bit assertive and stay close to the hatch because otherwise you'll be last after all the travel agency employees with stacks of visas to be processed.
Good luck. Cheers,
Mark
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