Infrastructure — Turkey
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Turkey: 98
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Transportation
- Airports - total
98
- Airports with Paved Runways
91
- Heliports
20
- Railways
7,461 Miles 12,008 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
239,693 Miles 385,748 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
218,889 Miles 352,268 Kilometers
- Waterways
746 Miles 1,200 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Gemlik, Hopa, Iskenderun, Istanbul, Izmir, Kocaeli (Izmit), Icel (Mersin), Samsun, Trabzon
Communications
- Telephones
16,534,000
- Cell Phones
61,976,000
- Internet Users
13,150,000
- Internet Country Code
.tr
- Internet Hosts
3,433,000
- Broadcast Media
- 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
- Telephone System
- general assessment: comprehensive telecommunications network undergoing rapid modernization and expansion,
- especially in mobile-cellular services 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; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular telede
- nsity is roughly 100 telephones per 100 persons international: 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
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
198,100,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,120,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
790,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
181,600,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
38,130,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
600,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
45,920,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
632,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
6,173,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
706,100
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
338,900
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
50,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
270,400,000