The Government of Montenegro adopted a regulation yesterday on amending the regulation on the visa regime, which introduces a temporary suspension of the visa-free regime for citizens of Turkey.
This measure is temporary and was adopted with the aim of re-examining and improving, in the shortest possible time, the mechanisms of control of movement and stay of foreign citizens.
The suspension of the visa-free regime for citizens of Turkey enters into force the next day after the day of publication in the “Official Gazette of Montenegro”.
The Government states that this measure does not call into question Montenegro’s commitment to the development of bilateral relations with Turkey.
This decision followed after the police in the area of Podgorica detained 47 Turkish citizens, among them two suspects of having seriously injured a Podgorica resident whose initials are M. J. with a knife.
From the Police Directorate, it was earlier announced that on the night between Sunday and Saturday, near a hospitality establishment in Zabjelo, there was a disturbance of public order and peace by a fight in which several persons participated and in which a knife was used, and on that occasion, one person sustained injuries to the chest and arms.
