| Telephones - main lines in use: |
18.978 million (2005) |
| Telephones - mobile cellular: |
43.609 million (2005) |
| Telephone system: |
general assessment: undergoing rapid modernization and expansion especially with cellular telephones
domestic: additional digital exchanges are permitting a rapid increase in subscribers; the construction of a network of technologically advanced intercity trunk lines, using both fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay, is facilitating communication between urban centers; remote areas are reached by a domestic satellite system; the number of subscribers to mobile cellular telephone service is growing rapidly
international: country code - 90; international service is provided by 3 submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, linking Turkey with Italy, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia; satellite earth stations - 12 Intelsat; mobile satellite terminals - 328 in the Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems (2002) |
| Radio broadcast stations: |
AM 16, FM 107, shortwave 6 (2001) |
| Radios: |
11.3 million (1997) |
| Television broadcast stations: |
635 (plus 2,934 repeaters) (1995) |
| Televisions: |
20.9 million (1997) |
| Internet country code: |
.tr |
| Internet hosts: |
1.313 million (2006) |
| Internet Service Providers (ISPs): |
50 (2001) |
| Internet users: |
16 million (2005) |