Vehicle Registration Plates

[ceemac]

The Turkish car registration plate is rectangular in shape and made of aluminum. On the left, there is the country code "TR" in a 4x10cm blue bar like in EU countries. The text is usually in black characters on white background eg;

Certain classifications of vehicles have different coloured plates however eg official government vehicles have red plates with gold lettering, military plates are a white lettering on a black background;

The plates 99 MA 999 to 99 MZ 999 indicate foreigners with temporary residence permit.

The first two digits of the plate indicate the province where the vehicle was registered of which there are 81;


01 Adana 02 Adıyaman 03 Afyonkarahisar 04 Ağrı 05 Amasya 06 Ankara 07 Antalya 08 Artvin
09 Aydın 10 Balıkesir 11 Bilecik 12 Bingöl 13 Bitlis 14 Bolu 15 Burdur 16 Bursa 17 Çanakkale
18 Çankırı 19 Çorum 20 Denizli 21 Diyarbakır
22 Edirne 23 Elazığ 24 Erzincan 25 Erzurum
26 Eskişehir 27 Gaziantep 28 Giresun
29 Gümüşhane 30 Hakkari 31 Hatay 32 Isparta
33 Mersin 34 İstanbul 35 İzmir 36 Kars
37 Kastamonu 38 Kayseri 39 Kırklareli 40 Kırşehir 41 Kocaeli 42 Konya 43 Kütahya 44 Malatya
45 Manisa 46 Kahramanmaraş 47 Mardin
48 Muğla 49 Muş 50 Nevşehir 51 Niğde 52 Ordu
53 Rize 54 Sakarya 55 Samsun 56 Siirt 57 Sinop
58 Sivas 59 Tekirdağ 60 Tokat 61 Trabzon
62 Tunceli 63 Şanlıurfa 64 Uşak 65 Van
66 Yozgat 67 Zonguldak 68 Aksaray 69 Bayburt
70 Karaman 71 Kırıkkale 72 Batman 73 Şırnak
74 Bartın 75 Ardahan 76 Iğdır 77 Yalova
78 Karabük 79 Kilis 80 Osmaniye 81 Düzce

Main Source of info: Wikipedia

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[KKOB]

Are you sure about the military plates ?

All the Jandarma, Coast Guard and Naval vehicles I've seen around here have black lettering on a white plate.

The plates consist of 7 or 8 numbers. The first number designates the branch of the military. In the case of the Jandarma it's 7. The second and third numbers are for the province, in Mugla's case 48. The rest of the number, I assume, is the vehicle's ID within the military unit.

High ranking Belediye officials have Red lettering on a White background i.e. Mayors

Less important officials and Muhtars generally have vehicles with White lettering on a Black background.

Provincial officials have Gold lettering on a Black background i.e. The Governor of a province.

 

[ceemac]

I'll try to include this picture of a military plate from Wikipedia which shows white lettering on black background but I don't think it will work.

34 NM 240​

• Military

However, Wikipedia then goes on to say "999999 (black on a white rectangle of 7x20cm on the bumper of the vehicle, painted by a stencil). 100999 Army, 300999 Air Force, 500999 Navy, 700999 Gendarmerie"

Confusing but you live there and have seen them so I would go with you.


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No it didn't work

 

[KKOB]

You have to remember Craig that a) things change and the info isn't updated and b) Wikipedia is written in the most part by the general public c) some of the sources of info are very dubious.

I think the writer has probably confused military plates with Local Government, Polis and Zabita ones. They are generally White lettering on a Black background.

 

[ceemac]

You have to remember Craig that a) things change and the info isn't updated and b) Wikipedia is written in the most part by the general public c) some of the sources of info are very dubious.

Oh yes I'm aware of that - it's not the first time I've been 'wikified' heheh

An interesting little aside is that apparently Turkish soldiers use the car registration system to count down their days left of military service.

In other words when they have 81 days left to go, they refer to it as being in Duzce as that is number 81 on the list. They must be in heaven when they're in Adana!!

Now I didn't get that from Wikipedia!!

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[KKOB]

We've been told that the Trafik Jandarma also play Car Snooker just like the Brit Cops ! :wink: