Post and Communications in Turkey

Post & Communications

Post
All post offices in Turkey bear the
yellow " PTT " or " Telekom " sign.
Larger and central offices are open
from 08:00-24:00.

Telephone
Public telephones have two different systems : Phonecards, Tokens

They are both sold at Turkish Telecom offices. Tokens are called “jeton” in Turkish. Phone cards are in 3 different capacity. All over Turkey, phone numbers consist of two sections; area code (3 digits) and the number itself (7 digits). During weekdays from 18:00 to 06:00 and on weekends calls are cheaper.

Total number of the telephone lines is 7.5 million (7.5 persons per telephone) . Turkey lies seventh in Europe and fourteenth in the world with this number.

Some features of the system:

7 digits telephone number throughout the country
3 digits area codes
A single area code for each province
Access code for long distance calls: 0
Access code for international calls: 00

Same area calls	just the 7-digit number
From area to area	0 + area code + number
International calls	0 + 0 + country code + area code + number

One can rent cellular phones throughout Turkey