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Turkey beginning biometric passport program in June

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The Turkey Foreign Ministry has announced biometric passport administration is expected to begin in the country starting on June 1 with Turkish citizens being allowed to being applying for the new documents starting on May 23, according to a Today’s Zaman article.

The biometric data on each passport holder is stored on a chip embedded in the document details facial biometrics.

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