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Turkish car number plates are license plates found on Turkish vehicles.

Contents 1 Appearance 2 Size 3 Numbering system 4 Special license plates 5 Location codes

The license 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 in black characters on white background, and for official vehicles white on black. On all vehicles two plates have to be present, being one in front and the other in rear.

• 15x24cm in front and rear for motorbikes, motorcycles and tractors with rubber wheels,
• 11x52cm in front and 21x32cm rear for cars, pickups, vans, trucks and busses. The size is 15x30cm for imported vehicles if the regular plate does not fit.

The text format on the plates is one of the following:

• "99 X 9999", "99 X 99999"
• "99 XX 999", "99 XX 9999" or
• "99 XXX 99", "99 XXX 999".

In some provinces, numbering is categorized in groups for tax collecting offices of different districts, for example Dolmuş in Ankara have plates of the form "06 J 9999" and a(ny) vehicle from Polatlı,Ankara have plates of the form '06 Pxx 99'. On the other hand, a Dolmuş in Eskişehir has a plate of the form "26 M 9999".

99 - two digits prefix denoting the location, shows the province code number of the main residence of car holder. There are 81 provinces as listed below:

X/XX/XXX – one/two or three letters.

9999/999/99 – four/three or two digits suffix depending on the size of letters before, not exceeding than six letters and digits together.

• 99 A 9999 (red characters on white background): Province government, University Presidents

TR

61 A 0446

• 99 A 99999, 99 AA 999 or 99 AAA 999 (white on blue): Police,

TR

61 AA 954

• 99 B 9999 (blue on white): Members of international organizations,

TR

61 B 0426

• 99 CA 999 to 99 CZ 999: (green on white): Diplomatic corps, (white on green) Consulates

TR

61 CE 811

• 99 G 9999 (black on yellow): Temporary (for max. one month),

TR

61 G 1485

• 99 GMR 999 (red on green): Temporary customs,

TR	61 GMR 032

• 99 MA 999 to 99 MZ 999: Foreigners with temporary residence permit,

TR

61 MA 365

• 34 TXX 99: Taxis in İstanbul only,

TR

34 TSL 83

• 99 T 9999: Taxis in all provinces except in İstanbul.

TR

61 T 0056

State president, members of parliament and military have different special numbering system.

• State president:

only (golden on red) or CB 999 (golden on red),

CB 001

• Members of parliament:

TBMM 999 (golden on red),

TBMM 037

• Prime minister, government members, undersecretaries and director general of security:

9999 (golden on red),

0019

• Province governors:

99 9999 (golden on red), with two-digits as province code number prefix

34 0024

• Military:

999 999 (black on white).

175 822

First two digits indicating the province.

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