Can foreign UnionPay bank cards be used in Side, Turkey for payments and ATM cash withdrawals?
Based on 2 discussions with 3 participants · Last activity: 11 days ago
TL;DR
Based on these chat messages, there was no confirmed positive result: on July 10 one traveler reported that cash withdrawal with a Rosselkhozbank UnionPay card was not working. Card payment success in Side was also not confirmed in this discussion.
What the community said
The newest report in the chat says that on July 10 a traveler could not withdraw cash using a Rosselkhozbank card. This refers specifically to ATM cash withdrawal, not in-store card payments.
11 days ago Rosselkhozbank
On June 29, travelers specifically asked whether UnionPay cards issued by Rosselkhozbank work for card payments in Side. In this chat excerpt, there is no confirmed success report for payments.
11 days ago Rosselkhozbank UnionPay
The same payment question about Rosselkhozbank UnionPay was repeated again that day, which suggests that chat members did not yet have reliable confirmation about the card working in Side.
11 days ago Side