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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Turkey moved out of Europe

Turkey moved out of Europe – by Post Office travel insurance

By Simon Calder, Travel Editor at Large

As Turkey moves closer to the EU, the Post Office in Britain has deemed that the nation lies entirely beyond Europe. Last month, at the start of the school summer holidays, the Post Office moved the boundaries used for its travel insurance policies to exclude Turkey from European cover. Even the European part of Turkey, including Istanbul, is deemed as lying outside the Continent for insurance purposes.

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