There are numerous private bus companies providing connections between cities in Turkey. For local trips to villages there are dolmuses, small vans that seat about twenty passengers.
Overview
| Railways | total: 8,697 km standard gauge: 8,697 km 1.435-m gauge (2,122 km electrified) (2004) |
| Highways | total: 354,421 km paved: 147,404 km (including 1,851 km of expressways) unpaved: 207,017 km (2002) |
| Waterways | 1,200 km (2003) |
| Pipelines | gas 3,177 km; oil 3,562 km (2004) |
| Ports and harbours | Gemlik, Hopa, Iskenderun, Istanbul, Izmir, Kocaeli (Izmit), Icel (Mersin), Samsun, Trabzon |
| Merchant marine | total: 526 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 4,666,895 GRT/7,311,504 DWT by type: bulk carrier 108, cargo 228, chemical tanker 45, combination ore/oil 1, container 25, liquefied gas 6, passenger 5, passenger/cargo 50, petroleum tanker 33, refrigerated cargo 2, roll on/roll off 22, specialized tanker 1 foreign-owned: 8 (Cyprus 3, Denmark 2, Greece 1, Italy 1, Switzerland 1) registered in other countries: 231 (2005) |
| Airports | 119 (2004 est.) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 87 over 3,047 m: 16 2,438 to 3,047 m: 30 1,524 to 2,437 m: 20 914 to 1,523 m: 17 under 914 m: 4 (2004 est.) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 32 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 8 under 914 m: 20 (2004 est.) |
| Heliports | 14 (2004 est.) |
