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Colour coding

Permanent Registration

• Private vehicles:
  • Private vehicles, by default, have black lettering on a white background (e.g. 75 AA 7106).
  • Vehicles which run purely on electricity have white lettering on a green background (e.g. 21 BP 7331)
• Commercial vehicles:
  • Commercial vehicles such as taxis, buses and trucks, by default, have black lettering on a yellow background (e.g. UP 19 D 0343).
  • Vehicles available on rent for self-drive have yellow lettering on a black background (e.g. KA 08 J 9192).
  • Vehicles which run purely on electricity have yellow lettering on a green background (e.g. MH 12 RN 1289)
• Vehicles belonging to foreign missions: respectively).
  • Vehicles registered to a consulate have black lettering on a yellow background (e.g. 199 CC 999).
• Vehicles registered by Indian Armed Forces have white lettering starting with a Arrow on a black background (e.g. ↑03D 153874H).

Temporary Registration

• Unsold vehicles belonging to a vehicle manufacturer or a dealer have white lettering on a red background (e.g. HR 26 TC 7174).
• Sold vehicles awaiting a permanent registration have red lettering on a yellow background (e.g. TS 07 D TR 2020).

Permanent Registration's Format

The current format of the registration index consists of three parts, They are:

• The first two digit numbers are the sequential number of a voivodeship.
• The second part consists of one, two or three letters or no letters at all. This shows the ongoing series of a voivodeship (Also as a counter of the number of vehicles registered) and/or vehicle classification
• The third part is a different number of digits. A letter is prefixed when the 4 digit number runs out and then two letters and so on.

This scheme of numbering has some advantages:

• The voivodeship of registration of a particular vehicle.
• In the case of a police investigation of an accident or vehicle-related crime, witnesses usually remember the initial area code letters - it is then quite simple to narrow down suspect vehicles to a much smaller number by checking the database without having to know the full number.

Exclusion of some letters in letter series

• Letters such I and O are not used in letter series in order to avoid confusion with digits 1 and 0.

Numbering system

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 voivodeships, there is so called rejonizacja, for example Dolmuş in Ankara have plates of the form "06 J 9999" and a(ny) vehicle from Polatlı, Ankara has plates of the form '06 Pxx 99', "06 ET XXXX" from Etimesgut district. 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 voivodeship code number of the main residence of car holder. There are 81 voivodeships.

X/XX/XXX – one, two or three letters.

99999/9999/999/99 – four, three or two digits, depending on the number of letters before, not exceeding six letters and digits altogether.

Types

Type (Used by)	Appearance	Format and Explanation
Private vehicles	01 AB 1234	N/A
Voivodeship government	01 AB 1234	Any (green characters on white background)
Police	01 AB 1234	Any (white on blue)
Air Police	01 JAA 123	99 JAA 99, 99 JAA 999 (white on blue).
Land Police	01 SGH 123	99 SGH 99, 99 SGH 999 (white on blue).
Diplomatic corps	01 CD 1234	Corps Diplomatique: 99 CD 999, 99 CD 9999: (blue on white)
Consular corps	01 CC 1234	Corps Diplomatique: 99 CC 999, 99 CC 9999: (blue on white)
Temporary	01 AB 1234	Any (red characters on white background)
Foreigners with temporary residence permit	01 MA 1234	99 MA 001 to 99 MZ 999; 99 MA 0001 to 99 MZ 9999 (Black on white)
Ukrainians with temporary residence permit	01 UAA 123	99 UAA 001 to 99 UZZ 999: (Black on white)
Taxis (Warsaw city only)	34 TAA 123	34 TAA 01 to 34 TZZ 99
Taxis (except Warsaw city)	01 T 1234	99 T 0001 to 99 T 9999; 99 T 00001 to 99 T 99999
Presidential cars		The number plate of the president has no numbers, instead it uses the Presidential Seal of Turkey. Other convoy cars use the format CB 00X ("CB" for Cumhurbaşkanı' (English: President)), with golden text on a red background.
Deputy Speaker and chairpeople of the parliamentary commissions		TBMM stands for Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Speaker, Vice President, Members of the Cabinet, Chief of the General Staff, the highest ranking commanders of armies, some undersecretaries		Gold on red (9999)
Province governors		99 9999 (golden on red), with first two-digits as province code number prefix
Official vehicles belonging to the government and public administrations		99 AA 999: (white on black), with first two-digits as province code number prefix
Military		999999 (black on a white rectangle of 7×20 cm on the bumper of the vehicle, painted by a stencil). 000999 General Staff of the Republic of Turkey, 100999 First Army, 200999 Second Army, 300999 Third Army, 400999 Aegean Army, 500999 Navy, 600999 Air Force, 700999 Gendarmerie. In Gendarmerie plates 7XX999, sometimes the XX digits indicates the province code of the gendarmerie located in.
Pre-1996 format (private vehicles)		These plates lacked the blue stripe (euroband) on the left hand side.
Pre-1962 format (private vehicles)		These old plates had the name of the province written in full, black background with white letters and usage of dashes.
Pre-1996 format (police)		white on green