Economic aid - recipient:
ODA, $635.8 million (2002)
Currency (code):
Turkish lira (YTL); old Turkish lira (TRL) before 1 January 2005
Currency code:
TRL, YTL
Exchange rates:
Turkish liras per US dollar - 1.44514 (2006), 1.3436 (2005), 1.4255
(2004), 1.5009 (2003), 1.5072 (2002), note, on 1 January 2005 the
old Turkish Lira (TRL) was converted to new Turkish Lira (YTL) at a
rate of 1,000,000 old to 1 new Turkish Lira
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Turkey
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 three submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black
Seas, linking Turkey with Italy, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania,
and Russia; also by 12 Intelsat earth stations, and by 328 mobile
satellite terminals in the Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems (2002)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 16, FM 107, shortwave 6 (2001)