Izzet's phonecards corner
Welcome to my homepage
My name is Izzet Kirbas and I live in Istanbul - Turkey.
I collect used phonecards all over the World with some limitations.
Take a look for me and my wife
Or
our fisherman's love bird "Haydut-Bandit"
This homepage, perhaps first and only phonecards collector's homepage on
the Web from my country. Please inform me if I am mistaken or you know
other buddies, so I can add their names and homepages to my links.
I have started to collect phonecards on February 1998 with 20 cards. Now
I have nearly 2500 cards. Due to the huge amount of phonecards all over
the World, I have made a limitation myself and collect only following themes:
Trains, military and civil aircrafts, space and satellites, ground station
satellite antennas, cosmos, planets, flowers, animals(especially butterflies
and tigers), Christmas and New Year, Coca/Pepsi Cola, Disney's, Unicef,
Europe Union, Formula 1 and Indy Cars.
Complete
list of all issued Turkish phone cards
My
favorite serie of Turkish Airlines
And
World Air Games serie
General information about phonecards issued by Turk Telecom:
First phonecards have been appeared in September 1986. They have been
issued by PTT and they were Swiss Landis&Gyr optical cards. They have
produced between 1986 and 1992. Beginning from 1989, optical cards changed
to Belgian Alcatel-Bell type which is thin magnetic cards. On April 24th,
1995; the operation rights of the telecommunication system in Turkey handed-over
to Turk Telecom Company.
If
you want to see the rare Turkish phonecards press here.
Alcatel cards are produced 3 different versions: 30 units, 60 units,
100 units and they are most widely used cards in Turkey. A special point
of the Alcatel cards used in Turkey are : The card retains by the phone
when the credit expired. For this reason you always must be careful and
watch the display while you talk on the phone. If you want to keep the
card, you must change the card or hang-off the phone when a few credit
remains on the card, otherwise you will LOST IT!!!
Smart chip phonecards are rarely produced and used in Turkey. First
widely used smart chip phonecards issued on May 1996 by Netas Telephone
Company during the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements,Habitat
II City Submit, 3-14 June 1996 in Istanbul. They were 100 and 350 units
and 44.000 and 36.000 pieces issued each one's respectively.
At the beginning of the 1998, Turk Telecom introduced new Global
Phone Card ( Kuresel Kart in Turkish). They are prepaid remote call cards.
You can call from any telephone to anywhere when you dial a special phone
number and enter your pincode which printed on the card. They are sold
in a sealed envelope with hidden pin-code reverse side.
Here
a special link for Phonecards - Collector : Petra
Andrea
Lughi's homepage.
Early
Turkish phonecards from Klaus Warschkow
Peter
Novak's homepage
This page continuously under construction and I will add more detailed
information about Turkish phonecards in the future.
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guest book
Links to other sites on: the Web
Europe
phonecards
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since 11 March 1998
© 1998 [email protected]
This page last up-dated 06 February 1999