PTT (Turkey)
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Industry | Postal services Banking Logistics |
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Founded | 23 October 1840 |
Headquarters | Ankara,Turkey |
Key people | Hakan Gülten[1](General Manager) |
Revenue | 4 billionTurkish lira[when?][citation needed] |
Owner | Turkey Wealth FundMinistry of Transport and Infrastructure |
Website | www.ptt.gov.tr |
PTT,an abbreviation forPosta ve Telgraf Teşkilatı(lit. Post and Telegraph Agency), is the national post and telegraph directorate ofTurkey.[2][3]Formerly, the organization was namedPosta Telgraf Telefon.After the privatization of the telephone telecommunications service business, the directorate was renamed, keeping its acronym. It is headquartered inAnkara,and is known asTurkish Postinternationally.[4]
History
[edit]On 23 October 1840, during the reign ofAbdulmejid I,theOttomanMinistry of Posts was established. In 1855, the firsttelegraphservice and in 1909 the first telephone service were put into use. In the same year the name of the ministry was changed toPosta Telgraf Telefon( "Posts, Telegraph and Telephone" or PTT for short) a name which was used for 86 years. After theTurkish Republicreplaced 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 foundedTürk Telekom(which was soon privatized). Accordingly, the directorate was renamed as "Organization of Post and Telegraph"(Turkish:Posta Telgraf Teşkilatı), thus the former acronym PTT is kept.[5]
Services
[edit]Alongside mailing services, the PTT also offers a variety of other services such astelegraph,postage stamps,philately,hybrid mailing,HGSpayments, insurance,PttAVM:ane-commercewebsite,andPttCell:amobile virtual network operatorusingTürk Telekominfrastructure, and much more.[6]
Service figures
[edit]In 2020 the service figures of the PTT were as follows:[7]
- Accepted post items: 493 million
- Total revenue: TL 2,917 billion
Service quality
[edit]The PTT runs for the ever-growing quality and efficiency with the fully modernized technology. It owns anISO-9000Quality Certificate.[8]
The international outbound mail leaves the country from the International Mail Processing Center (Turkish:Uluslararası Posta İşletim Merkezi (UPİM)) at theIstanbul Airport,the PTT's main hub. Most of the mail bags are transported by the state-ownedTurkish Airlines.UPİM provides information about the sent items, including the carrier name, flight number, and mail bag number containing the item when detailed information is required domestically.Electronic data interchangeis provided whenever available.
See also
[edit]- Grand Post Office,built between 1905-1909
- Istanbul Postal Museum,2000 established in the Istanbul Grand Post Office building
- Stamp Museumin Ankara
References
[edit]- ^"Genel Müdürümüz".PTT(in Turkish). 2020.Archivedfrom the original on 2023-11-27.Retrieved2024-01-09.
- ^"History of the PTT, the Turkish and Ottoman Postal and Telegraph Services".NOMAD SKETCHBOOK.2021-05-18.Retrieved2024-07-18.
- ^"Turkish Postal History - Home".turkishpostalhistory.com.Retrieved2024-07-18.
- ^Ceran, İrem; Pilehvarian, Nuran Kara (2023-07-08)."Osmanlı Devleti'nde Telgraf Mektebi / Fünûn-ı Telgrafiye/ Telgrafhâne-i Âmire Mektebi ve Eğitim verdiği Binalar".Çeşm-i Cihan: Tarih Kültür ve Sanat Araştırmaları Dergisi E-Dergisi(in Turkish).10(1): 2–31.doi:10.30804/cesmicihan.1205782.ISSN2149-5866.
- ^"Homepage".PTT.Archived fromthe originalon 2013-04-01.Retrieved2012-10-09.
- ^"Homepage".PTT.Archivedfrom the original on 2024-01-06.Retrieved2024-01-09.
- ^"PTT'nin yıllık geliri 4 milyar TL".Türkiye Gazetesi(in Turkish).Retrieved2022-12-01.
- ^Umut, Erkan."TURKISH POST (Ptt)".WordPress.Archived fromthe originalon 2013-10-05.Retrieved2024-01-09.