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