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/* WFB Medium Rectangle */ google_ad_slot = "5200087626"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <br> Page last updated on February 20, 2013 <p><b><a href = "http://www.theodora.com/wfb/wfb2000/definitions.html#telephones_main_lines_in_use">Telephones - main lines in use:</a></b><br> 15.211 million (2011) <br><span style="padding-left:7px;">country comparison to the world: 18 <br>[see also: <a href="http://www.photius.com/rankings/communications/telephones_main_lines_in_use_2013_0.html" target="_blank"><u>Telephones - main lines in use country ranks</u></a> ] <p><b><a href = "http://www.theodora.com/wfb/wfb2000/definitions.html#telephones_mobile_cellular">Telephones - mobile cellular:</a></b><br> 65.322 million (2011) <br><span style="padding-left:7px;">country comparison to the world: 19 <br>[see also: <a href="http://www.photius.com/rankings/communications/telephones_mobile_cellular_2013_0.html" target="_blank"><u>Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks</u></a> ] <p><b><a href = "http://www.theodora.com/wfb/wfb2000/definitions.html#telephone_system">Telephone system:</a></b><br> <i>general assessment: </i>comprehensive telecommunications network undergoing rapid modernization and expansion especially in mobile-cellular services <br><i> domestic: </i>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; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity is roughly 100 telephones per 100 persons <br><i> international: </i>country code - 90; international service is provided by the SEA-ME-WE-3 submarine cable and by submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas that link 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) <p><b><a href = "http://www.theodora.com/wfb/wfb2000/definitions.html#broadcast_media">Broadcast media:</a></b><br> Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) operates multiple TV and radio networks and stations; multiple privately-owned national television stations and up to 300 private regional and local television stations; multi-channel cable TV subscriptions available; more than 1,000 private radio broadcast stations (2009) <p><b><a href = "http://www.theodora.com/wfb/wfb2000/definitions.html#internet_country_code">Internet country code:</a></b><br> .tr <p><b><a href = "http://www.theodora.com/wfb/wfb2000/definitions.html#internet_hosts">Internet hosts:</a></b><br> 7.093 million (2012) <br><span style="padding-left:7px;">country comparison to the world: 16 <br>[see also: <a href="http://www.photius.com/rankings/communications/internet_hosts_2013_0.html" target="_blank"><u>Internet hosts country ranks</u></a> ] <p><b><a href = "http://www.theodora.com/wfb/wfb2000/definitions.html#internet_users">Internet users:</a></b><br> 27.233 million (2009) <br><span style="padding-left:7px;">country comparison to the world: 15 <br>[see also: <a href="http://www.photius.com/rankings/communications/internet_users_2013_0.html" target="_blank"><u>Internet users country ranks</u></a> ] </font> <p> <p> <BR> <P> <font size = "-2"><B> NOTE: The information regarding Turkey on this page is re-published from the 2013 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. 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