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)

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:
1,313,135 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
50 (2001)

Internet users:
16 million (2005)

Transportation Turkey

Airports:
117 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 89
over 3,047 m: 15
2,438 to 3,047 m: 33
1,524 to 2,437 m: 19
914 to 1,523 m: 18
under 914 m: 4 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 28
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 8
under 914 m: 17 (2006)

Heliports:
18 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 4,621 km; oil 3,543 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 8,697 km
standard gauge: 8,697 km 1.435-m gauge (2,122 km electrified) (2005)

Roadways:
total: 426,906 km
paved: 177,550 km (including 1,892 km of expressways)
unpaved: 249,356 km (2004)

Waterway