Living in Turkey? Expat.com needs you!
Hello everyone,
Hope you are doing well.
We are currently looking for volunteers to help the expat community in Turkey.
If you are interested in helping the other members in your spare time, answering their queries and sharing useful information on the forum on living in Turkey, we would be happy to have you on board of our Advisors Team.
Should you want to know more about this project, feel free to contact me answering directly in this thread or by private message.
Hope to hear from you soon 
Thanks,
Priscilla
Expat.com Team
Hello, If I can be of any help, I would be willing to answer questions in my spare time. I just moved to Bursa in April of this year.
Hey! I
_ would love to answer any question if needed. I am living in Turkey for 9 years 💜
Turkey
English
Kurdish
Arabic
If it helps I'm trying to move tio ?zmir although temporarily. I'd be willing to talk about my progress, research etc if it helps?
Hi everyone,
Thanks for responding positively to my request.
Note that i am sending a private message to each one of you to explain more in detail this volunteer project. 
Talk to you soon,
Priscilla
Expat.com Team
I've been living in Turkey for 22 years now.. have lots of spare time and would answer questions where i can
Hello everyone,
Thank you so much for participating to this topic and for offering your help.
Kindly note that i am only looking for expatriates living in Turkey and unfortunately those who want to help and have not moved to Turkey yet can't be considered. However, you participation to the forum are very appreciated and after your move, we might reconsider your profile again. Please feel free to shoot me a private message and inform me when you will be in Turkey.
@ marleysa : Kindly note that I have contacted you in private.
Thanks all,
Priscilla
Expat.com Team
Hi,
Though I don't live in Turkey right now, but I really like to move there someday. Maybe if I help people, someday they will return my favor. So, I'm ready to do what it takes to help people.
Warm regards
saeed
@ Saeed :
I really appreciate your offer, however i am looking for only expatriates living in Turkey.
Once you move there, do not hesitate to get in touch with me so that we can reconsider your proposal.
Meanwhile, your help and participation is much appreciated.
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@ Yusufmeseci61300 : Thanks to give more details please and thanks to post only in english on this english speaking forum.
Thanks,
Priscilla
Expat.com Team
Dear Priscilla,
I am allready trying to help several expat. com members.
Please to tell you you if anyone asking you, forward to me.
All the Best
Erol ALPER
Hi Priscilla
This is Ali from Ankara. I am working for a foreign trade company. I can help about Ankara. Feel free to ask anything about Ankara
Hi Priscilla,
This Ufuk from Antalya Turkey.How is it going?I hope you're doing fine.I'll be glad to help anyone in my region.
I speak also French but I must admit my accent is like Flemmish
)
The members of this site can ask me about anything,i'll do my best to help.
Take care everyone your super hero Ufuk is here to help 
We moved to Alanya a month ago (Mahmutlar), I made many posts in hungary, but for now i have more questions then answers.
Me and my wife have lived in Netherlands (we are Dutch), UK, Luxembourg, Hungary and now Turkey (Alanya). I am 60 and my wife a bit younger.
Reason to come here, climate, ease of life, restaurants, cheaper (especially cigarettes), all is in walking (or taxi distance).
As for the climate, we knew lots of rain in winter, only thing I can say, I can confirm.
Inflation for us is not too bad, things are cheaper than we even imagined, however for locals the situation is terrible, the fact that Alcohol is same as in Hungary is around the same is strange to say the least.
So far Turkish people are friendly, very much so, very very service minded, but of course (especially during first few months we are getting ripped off (which is fine as long as we can get settled)).
Happy to see additional info on how to survive or get settled, many many things completed, but still many things outstanding, bank-accounts, tax info, how to deal with owners of association, home-deliveries, swimming in sea comfortably in sea (Mahmutlar), for me personally where to play chess, really fast internet, .....
Of course we have had our experiences (in general positive), but really we are newbies.
My background is finances (including taxes), so please only give serious comments, we are more interested in day-to-day life.
Happy to contribute, but please give us a bit more time.
For the moderator, please refer to the Hungary forum on what I do or can do.
Why do your posts in Hungary you have done this post in English.
Turkish people want too speak English, maybe they do not understand Hungary language.
Best way too sort anything legal, go too the tax office, they are quite helpful. Get friendly with a Turkish person, that can speak English & put you in the right direction. I had an estate agent help me when I was in Marmaris, for an example.
Hope you get settled & everything sorted
For enight1, some of the things have to be done in original for Western Europe (not through scan, phone or email), frustrating, but that is life.
Some bank issues but also liquidating my company in Hungary.
I was just used to letter boxes in my life, not so much in Turkey, rest assured when I can get things to scans and email I will. Ordering DHL is also possible but a bit too far for some simple things.
By the way I am Dutch and do not speak Hungarian at all, I lived in Netherlands, UK, Luxembourg, Hungary and now Turkey (following the comfortable life against reasonable cost)
A shame no other replies, already 2 months old, where are the other contributors?
@yasmin9200 apologies, clearly you have e-mail and internet, loads of information on Bursa, what teaching jobs (primary, secondary, but perhaps even university). Getting a job permit is not so easy, but if you have support from your school it should be more then fine, you really should get somewhere else (government) and call them, if you are needed, I think no problem, if you take jobs from local qualified people I would say no chance, still why did you not give any specs in your post (suspicious in my view)
Feel free to contact me.@cdw057 I tried to say that as I am a person living in Izmir, I can answer questions about Izmir without any payment. Or you can do some google research and find your answers. I didn't ask for any payment. The moderator can decide what to do and every decision is OK for me. I don't care....
@cdw057 Please check the question of the moderator. they are asking if we are interested in projects with expats... And my quote was just an answer to their question.
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