Number of Social Media Users in Turkey Announced

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlumade a presentation at the Turkish Grand National Assembly Digital Media Commission. In this presentation, the Minister stated that 275 billion dollars have been invested in transportation and communication infrastructure in the last 21 years.

In the electronic communications sector, in 19 different authorization areas With 834 different authorization certificates from 455 companies Stating that the service is provided, Minister Uraloğlu also announced the number of fixed and mobile broadband internet subscribers in Turkey as 93.3 million. Regarding this issue, Minister Uraloğlu said, “Approximately 19.5 million of this is provided by fixed lines, and the remaining 73.5 million is provided by mobile lines. Our fiber length 562 thousand kilometers has reached. It has increased approximately 4.5 times in the last 3 years. “The number of our fiber broadband subscribers increased by an average of 20 percent annually, reaching 6.7 million.” he said.

Turkey’s fiber subscriber penetration has increased in recent years Among 39 EU countries Stating that it ranked 2nd, Uraloğlu also stated that in fixed broadband services, the internet speed of 71 percent of subscribers in 2013 was between 4 and 10 Mbps, but today it has increased to 16 Mbps and above for 78% of subscribers. In the same period e-Government Gateway It was stated that the number of users increased to 65 million and the number of services there increased from 22 to 8 thousand 200. Regarding e-signature, it was stated that there are 8 companies providing services in Turkey and the number of e-signature certificates created exceeds 8.6 million, 2.6 million of which are actively used. It was stated that the number of addresses using Registered Electronic Mail services reached 2.8 million.

More than 11 million malicious access requests are blocked every day

Active domain name allocations are carried out by BTK and the number of allocations is approaching 1.2 million Minister Uraloğlu stated, “In addition, arrangements have been made for the allocation of names with direct names and ‘.tr’ extensions, first name allocations and ‘ağ.tr’ format, and preliminary applications are currently being received. We will start implementing this in August. So, you, as ‘Hüseyin Yayman’, I am As ‘Abdulkadir Uraloğlu’, you will have the opportunity to get an address with the ‘.tr’ extension directly tagged with your name.” “I think that those who use similar or the same name and surname will definitely have priority in the order of application.” said.

National Cyber ​​Incident Response Center (USOM) While describing the activities carried out by “In the studies carried out by USOM, 17 million IP addresses are constantly scanned with a radar logic. In these studies, approximately 422 major attacks and more than 11 million malicious access requests are blocked every day. Many of our citizens without even realizing the attack Our friends at USOM prevent this. The role and cooperation of TÜRK TELEKOM, Turkcell and Vodafone in these studies is also valuable to us. We scan all IP addresses only for identified interference and content that we believe may or is known to be harmful. Apart from that, we do not have any other screening.” He evaluated as follows.

Here is the number of social media users in Turkey

Our citizens in Turkey provide information about their behavior towards social media preferences. Uraloğlu, “Approximately 78 percent of our citizens use at least one of the social media channels such as Instagram, YouTube and Facebook, now known as X. Nearly 58 million of our people are active social media users. Around the world 6.5 hours “Daily usage time is approximately 7 hours in our country.” he said.

With over 10 million daily access in Turkey for social network providers Also touching on the regulation, Uraloğlu said, “All of them established their companies. The last one to establish this was more than 1 million from what happened LinkedIn, Dailymotion, Pinterest and VKontakte also established their companies and appointed their representatives. They are currently at the point of meeting the required conditions in Turkey.” he said.