PTT, an abbreviation for (lit. Post and Telegraph Agency), is the national post and telegraph directorate of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. Formerly, the organization was named . After the privatization of the telephone telecommunications service business, the directorate was renamed, keeping its acronym. It is headquartered in

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, and is known as TURKISH POST internationally.

History

On 23 October 1840, during the reign of

Abdulmejid I Abdulmejid I ( ota, عبد المجيد اول, ʿAbdü'l-Mecîd-i evvel, tr, I. Abdülmecid; 25 April 182325 June 1861) was the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839. His reign was notable for the r ...

, the Ottoman Ministry of Posts was established. In 1855, the first

telegraph Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas p ...

service and in 1909 the first telephone service were put into use. In the same year the name of the ministry was changed to ''Posta Telgraf Telefon'' ("Posts, Telegraph and Telephone" or PTT for short) a name which was used for 86 years. After the

Turkish Republic Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

replaced the Ottoman Empire in 1923, the ministry became a general directorate of the Republic. In 1995 the telephone and other telecommunication services were transferred to newly founded

Türk Telekom Türk Telekom is a state-owned Turkish telecommunications company. Türk Telekom was separated from Turkish Post (PTT) in 1995. Türk Telekom Group provides integrated telecommunication services for PSTN, GSM, and wide-band Internet. The Türk ...

(which was soon privatized). Accordingly, the directorate was renamed as "Organization of Post and Telegraph" ( tr, Posta Telgraf Teşkilatı). Thus the former acronym PTT is kept.

Organization

The organization consists of :Board of Directors :Director General :4 Deputy directors general :17 departments :Provincial directorates and some auxiliary units. The total number of postal offices all over Turkey is about 5,000 as of 2011.

Service figures

In 2020 *Accepted post items: 493 million *Total revenue: TL 2,917 billion

Service quality

Ptt runs for the ever-growing quality and efficiency with the fully modernized technology. It owns an ''ISO-9000 Quality Certificate''. The international outbound mail leaves the country within max. 3 days from UPİM (Uluslararası Posta İşleme Merkezi – International Mail Processing Center at the

Istanbul Airport Istanbul Airport ( tr, İstanbul Havalimanı, ) is the main international airport serving Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in the Arnavutköy (district), Arnavutköy district on the European side of the city. All scheduled Commercial aviation, ...

(main hub). The most of the mail bags are transported by the state-owned

Turkish Airlines Turkish Airlines ( Turkish: ''Türk Hava Yolları'') is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey. , it operates scheduled services to 340 destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, making it the largest mainline carrier in the w ...

(actually 340 destinations). UPİM gives the information on the items sent like the Carrier name, Flight no. and Mail bag no. the item included when the detailed info needed domestically. EDI ( Electronic Data Interchange) is provided whenever available.

References

External links

Ptt International Relations Dept.
(Turkish)
TURKISH POST (Ptt) from the Blog "Erkan's Post 2 Mail"
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