Prohibited Items List

Guns and Firearms

• Riffled firearms of all calibers
• Smoothbore shotguns and pump-rifles of all types
• Replicas and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons
• Air guns
• Toy guns
• Hidden and Camouflaged Guns (lighter and pen guns etc.)
• Starter Pistols
• Gun components (excluding telescopic sights and sight units)
• Ball Bearing Guns (Plastic and metal)
• Signal Pistols
• Slingshots and Catapults
• Electrical Shocking Devices
• Lighters in the form of Pistol
• Industrial bolts, nails and spear guns
• Bows and Arrows
• Animal Stunners
• Paint Guns
• Pop Guns and Primers

Guns and Objects with Pointed / Sharp Edges

• Axes and types of axes
• Arrow and darts
• Spears, pike, spear gun
• Hook
• Ice axe
• Cleaver
• Launched stars
• Wedge
• Stiletto
• Attacking
• Jack-knife and butterfly knife
• Saw blade, sword, bayonet,
• Pointed and arrowed knives
• Diver’s Equipment (Diver’s Knife etc.)
• Scissors ( with blades of more than 6 cm)
• Ice picks
• Razor blade, knife and open razors
• Metal Cutter
• Sewing Needle
• Pocket Knife, Multi-purpose pocket knife
• Nail clippers (bigger than 6 Cm)
• Corkscrew
• Mountain climbing equipment (spike, hatchet, hammer, ice axe etc.)
• Ski Walking and Climbing Sticks
• Rasp (bigger than 6 Cm)
• Knitting needle
• Spiked umbrella
• Box cutter
• Martial Arts and Attack and Defense equipment (Long sticks, swords, telescopic batons, knuckles, bayonet, mace, knob whip, choking wire or chain, pikestaff etc.)
• Ice skates
• Pen knives
• Hunting Knives
• Carpentry equipment of all types (hammer, screwdriver, drill, saw, measuring tape etc.)
• Medical cutters (scalpel, lancet etc.)
• Spoons, knives and forks
• Hypodermic needles (they may be carried when it is proven to be for medical purpose)
• Battery screwing machine and drills and drill bits
• Power Saw
• All types of knives with blades of more than 6 cm (including circular blades and ceramic knives)

Explosives and Inflammable Substances

• Explosives and explosive systems (including their replicas)
• Fuses and detonators
• Dynamite and imitations capable of being mistaken for real ones
• Firearms, sparklers
• Grenades and imitations capable of being mistaken for real ones
• Plastic Explosives
• Mine, gunpowder and other military explosives
• Arms and ammunition
• Inflammable liquids (petrol, gas, diesel, alcohol, ethanol, gas oil etc.)
• Spray paint
• Thinner and turpentine
• Gases and Gas Tubes (excessive oxygen, propane gas, butane gas, acetolon )
• Lighter Liquids and Gases
• Torch flame lighters (only for USA flights)
• Replica inflammable substances
• All types of unsafe matches (matches which can be lit on all surfaces)
• Drinks and liquids with alcohol rate more than 70% (cologne etc.)
• Smoke-generating products (smoke bomb etc.)

Blunt Instruments

• Thick bats (Golf, Cricket, Baseball, Hockey, Lacrosse Bats)
• Oars (Canoe etc.)
• Handcuffs
• All types of billiard cues (billiard)
• Skateboard
• Fishing equipment and fishing gears
• All types of batons, sticks (such equipment is allowed after scanning depending on the passenger profile.)
• Skis
• Rope, cables, steel ropes
• All types of surfboards

Chemical, Biological, Nuclear (NBC – Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) and Toxic Substances

• Acids and Liquid Batteries
• Radioactive substances (excluding the ones used in healthcare services)
• Dry ice (more than 2 kg)
• Self-inflammable substances
• Fire extinguishers
• Dog repellent sprays
• Poison and Agrochemicals (pesticides, rat poison etc.)
• Substances including contagious and biological threat ( contaminated blood, bacteria and viruses)
• Substances including chemical / biological threat (V.H.F.s causing high fever such as mustard gas, sarin, anthrax, variola, cyanide, tularemia, botulism, ebola, marburg)
• Disabling and incapacitating sprays (pepper gas, tear gas, CN and CS gases in the form of key holder)
• Solvents, abrasives and removers (Chlorine, bleacher, hydrochloric acid etc. irritants)
• Compressed Gas Tube
• Oxygen tubes (chemical oxygen generators, diver tubes, liquid oxygen tubes)
• Calorific instruments
• All types of liquids unless in individual containers with a capacity not greater than 100 ml or equivalent and contained in one transparent re-sealable plastic bag of a capacity not exceeding one liter. (gels, toothpaste, lotion, solid / liquid mixtures, perfumes, shaving foam, aerosols, hair gels, drinks, soups, syrups etc.) For the details on this subject, see LIQUID RESTRICTIONS section.

Articles Prohibited in Hold of an Aircraft

• Fuses and detonators
• All types of explosives and explosive systems
• Fireworks
• Marking cartridges
• Mines and Military Explosives
• Grenades
• Sparklers
• High-risk inflammable and incendiary substances
• Smoke-generators
• NBC’s (Chemical, Biological, Nuclear - Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) - (except for medical ones)