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Hitchhiking in Turkey

Hitchhiking to Turkey

Recent reviews in Turkey

40.91695, 29.35284

Driver took us (3 males) to Ankara. Waited no more than 2 minutes. Great spot, cars were driving slowly.

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 🪧

―Adam, September 2025

37.14374, 40.86739

First car drove me Al the way to Mardin and dropped me off exactly at my destination

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min

―mjexplorer, September 2025

Lots of trucks going long distances after border crossing. Many locals also hitchhiking under bridge and also on road towards Mardin. Better under the bridge so you get picked up first.
Got picked up by a truck with another dude too.

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 187 km ←

―mjexplorer, September 2025

38.74897, 35.5502

Got picked up straight away but didn’t go far

rating: 4/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 8 km ↘

―Anonymous, August 2025

40.98776, 29.19435

Got a ride with a very nice guy who spotted us. A good place to leave Istanbul towards east with a lot of cars

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min, ride: 86 km →

―Andrito, Wed 13 Aug 2025, 12:18

40.75159, 30.0349

Kinda sketchy, no real place for cars to stop, but a lot of cars passing, so if you're going to Bolu it works from there

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 🪧, ride: 164 km →

―Andrito, Wed 13 Aug 2025, 16:18

40.75946, 29.97994

Not a great spot. Cars don't go far and there's a lot of trafic so good opportunity for cars to stop, even on the bus stop. Got a lift to the highway jonction by asking people

rating: 2/5, wait: 20 min 💬+🪧, ride: 6 km →

―Andrito, Wed 13 Aug 2025, 16:16

39.36891, 40.98853

Can really recommend this place. Big trucks go here for tea, and specially at night time. As Kurds are always, very helpfull and the tearoom staff was very interested in my trip and immediately helped me find someone going my way. Also many free tea's;) I think anyone can find someone going long distance at your direction at almost any time(after some hitchhiking concept explaining hah)

rating: 5/5, ride: 82 km ↙

―Anonymous, August 2025

40.85438, 43.31677

Id like to walk, its so beautiful here. So I walked for like 20 minutes and hitch hiked when I heard car
But if you start hitch hiking at the end of the village locals will stop and take you. Its worth it

rating: 5/5, wait: 25 min, ride: 43 km ↖

―Stepan010305, August 2025

40.74845, 43.21145

This small road for trucks and locals. Just go on the hill, either way the trucks cant stop

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 6 km →

―Stepan010305, August 2025

40.6186, 43.11538

Anywhere on the road. But try to be here in the morning, its Very quick

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 17 km ↑

―Stepan010305, August 2025

39.97703, 41.6806

Very lucky, but the hitchspot pretty good. Maybe go little bit closer to the center of city but stay on the main road. A truck took me, all the way to Kars.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 177 km ↗

―Stepan010305, August 2025

39.96214, 41.21986

Not ideal, pretty fast road but only option if went by bus and dont want to pay taxi. Just believe in yourself

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 48 km →

―Stepan010305, August 2025

38.31189, 34.25397

Few traffic. Saturday. At some point you find someone.

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 26 km ←

―Supertramp182, Sat 09 Aug 2025, 13:40

40.14435, 39.43329

I was asking for Trabzon or Gümüşhane, got a car for the second within few minutes

rating: 4/5, wait: 3 min 👍, ride: 44 km ↑

―WhinniePuuh, Sat 09 Aug 2025, 19:20

39.793, 39.39548

Better go a bit further, out of the curve so the drivers get the time to see you.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 49 km ↑

―Anonymous, Sat 09 Aug 2025, 18:32

41.45042, 31.80509

Its not the exact spot but if you stand not too much close to roundabout and no too much far, you will get a ride in no time

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 20 km ↘

―Stepan010305, August 2025

41.08581, 31.17685

Just great, had a sign to be sure

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 76 km ↗

―Stepan010305, August 2025

41.07577, 28.8713

Make sure to find a ride to the first gas station or resting place. We were dropped off at a shitty place

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min

―Anonymous, August 2025

38.21348, 34.21381

8th car

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 👍, ride: 10 km →

―Supertramp182, Wed 06 Aug 2025, 10:30

Recent reviews mentioning Turkey

37.13838, 42.57538

Let me cross on foot Kurdistan to Turkey. Iraqi/Kurdistan officers stopped a random car for me to get in to go over bridge (walking forbidden), told them taxi is too expensive.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min

―mjexplorer, September 2025

50.20801, 14.43526

We asked around the parking lot and like 6th car driver was from Turkey driving truck with fish to Rotterdam so we waited with him until his pauze ended and then enjoyed great ride, singing and eat some turkish meals with him while driving to Neatherlans.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 💬, ride: 777 km ↖

―Kromcz, Wed 06 Aug 2025, 16:00

42.99278, 22.84717

Definitely not a great spot, during summer a lot of packed cars from Germany driving to Turkey, almost no locals (Serbians, Bulgarians). On the other hand, we found a car going directly to Sofia.

rating: 2/5, wait: 90 min, ride: 61 km ↘

―Honza, August 2025

41.75932, 26.21271

Hitchhiked without a sign. Had memorized the city names of "Generalovo" and "Kapitan Andreevo".

Driver asked me where I was going to. Said the two names and he asked to get in. I said I was going to Turkey and he drove me to the parking spot next to the border.

Not a lot of cars, but slow traffic and a big area for parking.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 15 km →

―Muhammed, July 2025

39.84846, 32.81059

Horrible spot. You have to stay next to a bus stop and only traffic from a certain part if town goes there because the main road, which is only a few feet away but highway with nowhere to stand and fast cars is going through a short tunnel kind of. Stood there for 4 hours without result and made me use buses for 3 weeks afterwards because I thought Turkey doesnt work. Was wrong if course and later it was so easy but it traumatized me. Get a dolmus to go further south or try before the tunnel that splits the road.

rating: 1/5, wait: 240 min

―FlexiG, July 2025

47.87013, 17.2165

Good spot! Find a ride to Budapest in 20 min. We were just standing with a sign and a nice guy from turkey stoped.

rating: 5/5, wait: 25 min, ride: 179 km →

―Jaxii13, July 2025

-33.04314, -58.61987

The direction Buenos Aires! 14
We were two Backpacker from Germany and Turkey (male) waited here almost 2 and half hour . After we failed we decided to split and we went under the bridge which Cars slow down and they come over bridge so after moving under the bridge finding ride was better as a solo!

rating: 1/5, wait: 150 min 👍

―Route14, Mon 09 Jun 2025, 13:21

40.62354, 21.06051

I second that it is very difficult to get greek people to stop for you. we ended up asking people at customs and finally getting a ride to thessaloniki (by an albanian). not sure what my advice is, it will be difficult, also seems pretty impossible to hitchhike from the highways as there is literally almost no traffic the whole way. might actually be best to stand directly on the highway. from thessaloniki to turkey we ended getting a bus

rating: 3/5, wait: 100 min 💬, ride: 198 km →

―Leomagdich, June 2025

42.19232, 25.19094

Most traffic is going to Burgas. Got stuck here all sunday afternoon + monday morning.
Cars are full, I asked to truck drivers but all declined until one drive me tl little before Svilengrad.
For Turkey better to wait longer to get a direct ride from Sofia/Plovdiv.

rating: 3/5

―RoadTripeur, Mon 07 Apr 2025, 12:00

42.21418, 24.73464

Got a ride to the last petrol station before the split Burgas-Turkey.

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 🪧

―RoadTripeur, Mon 28 Apr 2025, 14:39

49.50692, 18.96117

good spot, many truckers are making stops here, even at night i was hitchhiking in winter and got a ride with a trucker from Turkey

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 89 km ↓

―Anonymous, January 2025

40.70644, 23.19204

About 100 minutes by bus from the city but worth it! You can walk to the rest stop and through the toll station (Not recommended) or Jump the fence Right After the station (recommended). I used a sign with the greek and turkish spelling of Turkey.

rating: 1/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 331 km →

―joni161, May 2024

38.04244, 32.92602

Cars coming fast, not much place to stop, but this whole region in Turkey is very good for hitchhiking and we were picked up immediately anyway while we were walking.

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 👍, ride: 123 km →

―JulianayJulian, May 2024

39.55583, 44.06561

April 2022. After a whole year travelling across Turkey and learning how to become a nomad while waiting for Iranian border to re-open as well as escaping pandemic, after a whole winter in Georgia. Finally i came again to Doğubeyazıt and got a relaxing ride by a truck. I was so excited and speechless that i even fell asleep on the way to Gürbülak. You have to leave the car and walk through the border, that's quicker. I found the same truck on the other side and they hosted me in Marand.

Let the safest, most welcoming and freeminded population guide you across Persia!

rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 241 km ↘

―GiovanniTonucci, May 2024

43.78737, 19.49804

It was heavy rain and not so a good spot but I was lucky. The car from Turkey stopped here and I got the ride to Sarajevo.

rating: 3/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 107 km ←

―Anonymous, January 2024

42.47253, 27.43564

Go to the end of the highway entrance and there you will find perfect place in Turkey's direction

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 262 km ↘

―Tejsiak, January 2024

41.68706, 26.46837

This is the spot you can use to get out of Turkey to Bulgaria. My experience in October 2021 was rewarding. I came to the border gate and the officials said "you can't walk" (it's been like that for years) and when I stood up few hundreds metres before, soldiers from Jandarma told me to get backwards and try asking at/inside restaurants. This doesn't work if you, like me, look Middle Eastern so the truck drivers will ignore you thinking you're irregular. So I took a dolmuş back to the pinned gas station and waited 2 hours (could be much less) until a Turkish man took me with him to casino in Svilengrad, offered me the entrance and a private hotel bedroom.

rating: 5/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 30 km ↖

―GiovanniTonucci, November 2023

40.70718, 23.18891

best way to go to Turkey, ask the Turkish truck driver.
It may be complicated to get there from Thessaloniki city centre, you need to take the bus to Analipsi and from there walk to this rest station in about 20 mins

rating: 5/5

―mattpackca_travel, November 2023

45.32886, 19.77888

Not many traffic! Many cars are going to Novi sad, and Serbia are not very friendly sometimes! But in the end one guy from Turkey took me to Belgrade even when didn't go there.... you need to talk to the people in the gas station for SURE, they can think that you are immigrant! Make a sing too ! It helps !

rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min

―Onlyexperiences, October 2023

46.60889, 19.83917

Mostly all Cars an Trucks Go to romania, If they leave hungary.
The Cars to serbia we're "full", company Cars, or they dont Take "Strangers", or Just ignore you.
Even Cars/Trucks to Turkey, bulgaria Go via romania, maybe because the Police controll all bulgarian/turkish Cars and Truck very hard

rating: 1/5, wait: 360 min, ride: 63 km ↓

―sebbo, September 2023