georgestravelsasia wrote:It IS possible, I did it last August at Ipsala's border crossing (French ID card). They give you a piece of paper with a stamp on it to prove your date of entry. When crossing into Georgia (also possible with ID for Schengen states citizens) at Sarp I was not asked for a passport, the officers knew the rule (the ones on the Turkish side did not and told me I would be rejected for sure but they let me through anyway). They stamped at the back of the paper the Turkish had given me.
When exiting Georgia to Armenia (Sadkhlo-Bagratashen) I had made a passport in between in Tbilisi. I showed both the ID, the passport and the paper at the border guard on the Georgian side. It was a bit of a hassle for him, but he asked me to wait for 15 minutes and it was all figured out.
Also my ID is pretty damaged, the edges are torn and stained with yellow ocre that I use for dying fabric, no one was ever bothered
When exiting Georgia for Armenia, was your passport stamped by the Georgians? Curious to know if they'll place an exit stamp even without an entry stamp.
Also,
not all EU citizens can enter Turkey with an ID. For example Swedes (like myself) officially cannot, but in practice they've always let me in on it (including at Sarp), except once when an officer (at Kapikule) didn't think it was me on the photo. Got a refusal letter saying in Turkish and English "THIS PERSON WAS REFUSED TO ENTER TURKEY FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS". There were checkboxes representing reasons for refusal, and the one that applied to me was "Impostor". Was stranded at freaking 2AM
Georgia, however, accepts all EU ID Cards, but when I crossed at Sarpi (twice, in July 2016 and April 2017) and the Red Bridge (July 2016), they had no idea and I had to show a government printout in Georgian at Sarpi. At the Red Bridge, I accidentally left it in the bus and so had to speak to the supervisor.
