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
Telephone numbers in Europe Telephone numbers in Europe Telephone numbers in Europe are managed by the national telecommunications authorities of each country. The country calling codes start primarily with "3" and "4", however, some countries that by the Copenhagen criteria are considered part of Europe have country codes from the Asia range, starting with "9". The international access code (trunk prefix) has been standardized as "00," as recommended by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). † = Disputed state, may not be recognized as an independent state by some or all European Union members. <nowiki>*</nowiki>A variable dialing plan has different dialing procedures for local and