Pet Shipping from Canada to Turkey

No, provided the titre result is valid. Where the file is complete the animal clears and travels on with you. What the Turkish regulation reserves is for an animal that fails the checks: it can be sent back, held in quarantine for however long it takes to establish that it meets the health conditions, or, where neither is possible, destroyed, with the costs on the owner. A passing titre is the reason none of that has to happen.

Türkiye is on the CFIA list, but not in the usual way. The certificate is a Turkish document, the Veterinary Health and Origin Certificate, obtained from Türkiye’s competent veterinary authority rather than issued by the CFIA. A licensed Canadian veterinarian completes two copies, because the Turkish form carries a signature block only for the official CFIA veterinarian. Both copies and all supporting documentation go to a CFIA District Office, where the official veterinarian assigns a health certificate reference number and endorses the second copy.

Yes. Türkiye requires a rabies antibody titration test showing 0.5 IU/ml or more, from a laboratory approved by the European Union for rabies testing. The EU’s list of those outside the EU, read 28 September 2026, names none in Canada, so the sample is sent abroad and that shipping time counts against your schedule. The blood has to be drawn at least 30 days after a rabies vaccination, and your pet cannot enter until 3 months after the draw. Once it passes, you do not repeat it: the result holds for the rest of the animal’s life so long as no gap ever opens in the vaccination record.

Roughly 4 to 6 months where the rabies vaccination has lapsed, and around 3.5 months where it is current and a draw can be booked immediately. What makes it long is a single fixed wait of 3 months, counted from the sample under the regulation and from the test result at İstanbul Airport and Esenboğa. Sourcing the Turkish certificate and securing a District Office slot both happen during that wait, not after it.

Türkiye’s diplomatic missions state that a traveller may bring 2 pets. A household moving three animals needs to plan around that limit rather than expect it to be waived on arrival, and each animal needs its own certificate.

Four by law, and two more at the border. Under Turkish law the Pitbull Terrier, Dogo Argentino, Fila Brasileiro and Japanese Tosa, and their crosses, may not be brought into the country at all, and the Sabiha Gökçen Airport border post also bars the American Staffordshire Terrier and American Bully and their crosses. The ban arrived with Law 7332 in July 2021, which amended Law 5199, and it reaches ownership, breeding and sale as well as entry. Identification is made on appearance rather than on papers, so a dog that resembles one of these types is worth raising with us at the outset.

There is no single figure, because the variables are yours: the animal’s size and crate, the two airports, cabin against baggage against cargo, and how much veterinary work the file still needs. Turkey adds two line items many destinations do not: the titre laboratory fee, and the courier cost of getting the sample out of Canada. Send us the route, the breed and the weight and we will quote it properly.

By keeping both clocks moving at once instead of one after the other. The certificate request goes to the Turkish authority in week one. The vaccination record gets checked, the draw is booked for the earliest date that qualifies, and the sample goes out to an approved laboratory. From there we hold the 3 month wait against the flight you want, proof both copies of the certificate against the chip number and the vaccination history, and secure a District Office slot with the fee settled in time. The arrival airport is verified against the Ministry list before any seat is booked.