Vaping in Turkey: is it legal, can you bring a vape and how much e-liquid? (2026)

Not in the way it is elsewhere. Presidential Decision 2149, published in the Official Gazette on 25 February 2020 (No. 31050), banned importing e-cigarettes and heated tobacco. Trade Minister Ömer Bolat said in December 2023 that Turkey has a definite ban, and that customs had seized 256,000 units in a single month, according to the press report. The same article says e-cigarettes and heated tobacco cannot legally be sold, although unregulated sellers still deliver them.

There is no legal shop to rely on, so what you carry in is the only legal supply. That makes the passenger rules below important.

Customs Circular 2020/7 of the Ministry of Trade says a passenger aged 18 or over may bring the following. It applies to adults only; the text carries no allowance for anyone younger.

The 2024 change comes from a law-firm article, not the ministry's own page. A law-firm summary reads the lines as one device plus one of the other items; the circular's text lists them separately and does not say whether you can combine them. Do not count on carrying all of them at once.

There is no exemption under the usual traveller-goods decision for these products. Items above the limits are put in the passenger baggage warehouse for collection when you leave the country, and customs destroys them if you do not collect them in time.

The tobacco allowance of 600 cigarettes is separate and is on our Turkey rules page.

A traveller within the allowance has no penalty. Outside it, a Turkish law-firm article says Law 5607 on smuggling applies: 1 to 5 years' imprisonment under article 3/1 for smuggling goods into the country, and 2 to 6 years under 3/7 for importing banned goods. Those figures describe trade and organised smuggling, and we found no case against a tourist with a personal device. The practical outcome described by the circular for an excess is storage at the customs warehouse, not prosecution.

The import ban covers heated tobacco as well, and the press report says it cannot legally be sold. The passenger line is the same circular: up to 200 units. That makes the allowance the only legal way to bring sticks in, so a larger quantity is the likeliest thing to be held at customs.

Smoking is banned in enclosed public places under Law 4207. A law-firm article says e-cigarettes are covered when they are used in the manner of a tobacco product, under article 2(6) of the law. The fine for an individual is reported at 1,764 TL in the 2026 police table, and from 24,440 TL for a business; another source gives a different figure for a person, so check the amount with the venue or police. Fines are revalued every year.

We found nothing on using a vape outdoors.

We found no source on nicotine pouches. Ask Turkish customs before carrying pouches.

Circular 2020/7 says air-transit passengers face no restriction on e-cigarettes or heated tobacco, because their baggage does not enter Turkish customs territory. Passengers in transit by land or sea must meet the same conditions as arrivals. If you connect through Istanbul Airport or Sabiha Gökçen and stay airside, the air-transit rule applies. Smoking areas at Antalya, Ankara Esenboğa and İzmir are on their airport pages; we found no source on whether vaping is allowed in them.

If you fly on with a vape, the battery goes in the cabin bag. See bringing a vape on a plane.