Post &
Communications
National
Area Phone Codes - Useful Phone Numbers
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.
One can rent cellular phones
throughout Turkey
| 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 |
Foreign
Language Broadcasts on Radio and Television
Tourism Radio: Aims at introducing Turkey to foreigners visiting the country giving
historical, geographical, social, economic and tourist information, as well as current
events, and, of course music.
Air time: Daily from 7:30-12:45 and 18:30-20:00 local time.
Transmitters and frequencies on the FM band:
Izmir - 1016 MHz
Antalya - 100.6 MHz
Nevsehir - 103.0 MHz
Kusadasi - 101.9 MHz
Denizli - 101.0 MHz
Bodrum - 97.4 MHz
Istanbul - 101.6 MHz
Marmaris - 101.0 MHz
Kalkan - 105.9 MHz
News in English,
French and German on Tourism Radio aired daily at 8:30-10:30, 12:30-18:30 and 21:30 hrs.
Feature programs are also broadcast in these three languages.
TRT TV2 News in English
shortly after 22:00.
TRT TV2 Monday at 19:40 CNN in English -TV INT News in English shortly after 23:00.
TRT Radio 3 on the FM band airs news in English, French and German at 9:00, 12:00, 14:00,
17:00, 19:00 and 22:00 daily.
