Can I bring (and return with) a shortwave radio receiver via Ataturk Airport?
I would very much like to bring there a marvelous Tecsun PL-600, which is this piece of wonderful equipment:
It also has Air band, which means you can listen to the ATC traffic.
Traditionally, shortwave radio has been (and is) used by countries for propaganda stuff, other than just normal programmes.
I hold a business visa (mechanic/assembly). Will I run into trouble?
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Just like Soner predicted I made it through both security checkpoints at IST, at the last of which I had the radio "inspected" (looked at skeptically, for the reason of not being either a laptop or a tablet I guess) and after some laughs all seemed OK with everyone. :)
For some reason, shortly after Soner Gönül's response, the IST airport site went first down and then into different phases of a degraded mode, so his link is sadly no longer available.
Here, just like in basically every country on Earth, showing an effort to learn the local language can lubricate any bureaucracy quite a bit.
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