Telephone services in Turkey Telephone services in Turkey This article covers the telephone services in Turkey. The political authority is Ministry of Transport, Maritime and Communication (Turkey) . But there is also a supreme council (); Information and Communication Technologies Authority (abbreviated BTK) which controls the internet and point to point telecommunication . Turk Telekom a private company issued from state owned Turkish PTT in 1995 is responsible in Turkish land phone. In 2013 the number of telephone subscriber is 13.86 million. International call code of Turkey is 90. Mobile phone service is provided by three private companies; Turkcell, Vodafone Turkey (former Telsim) and
Long-distance calling '00' for international calls, the European standard. It is now normal for local calls to cost the same as long distance UK calls, and is now common, for a small extra monthly charge, to allow free calls to landlines within the UK. This free call allowance does not normally cover calls to the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, which whilst confusingly having UK national dialling codes, are separate telephone administrations. International calling from the UK is deregulated in that many alternative providers allow very cheap international calling by the caller dialling an access code, usually beginning with the