Can foreign UnionPay bank cards be used in Side, Turkey for payments and ATM cash withdrawals?

From messages by 3 participants in 2 sources · Last activity: 60 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

A traveler reported that a Rosselkhozbank (UnionPay) card worked for in-store payment, and cash withdrawal in lira succeeded at Ziraat Bankası and Türkiye İş Bankası ATMs.

Ziraat Bankası, Türkiye İş Bankası

A follow-up clarified that Rosselkhozbank UnionPay card payments work selectively: it fails at Migros stores, but succeeds at Antalya airport Duty Free and mass-market shops (H&M, LC Waikiki, Zara, Levi's) in malls.

Migros, Antalya Duty Free, H&M, LC Waikiki, Zara, Levi's

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.

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.

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.

Side