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Warning! This article is out of date!<\/h2>\n\n

The described method of free IMEI extension in Turkey has been cancelled. And in the summer of 2023, the cost of registration rose to an absurd 20,000 Turkish liras (almost 700 euros). Too bad if you didn’t register your phone timely. Hardly makes sense now….<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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What’s the problem with the phones in Turkey?<\/h2>\n\n

As you know, 120 days after you put a Turkish SIM card in your phone that you imported from abroad, it will be blocked by IMEI. We wrote more about this in an article about the use of foreign phones in Turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

You can continue to use your phone, but only with foreign SIM cards. In order to use it with Turkish SIM cards, its IMEI must be officially registered. And phone registration in Turkey is expensive. As of this writing, the cost of registration is 2,700 Turkish Liras (more than 150 euros)! <\/p>\n\n

But we have one, perhaps temporary, tiphack on how to unblock and extend your duty-free permit to use a foreign terminal in Turkey if you have a residence permit. <\/p>\n\n

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What exactly is blocked?<\/h2>\n\n

If your phone is already blocked, first of all you need to understand what exactly you have blocked: the terminal (phone) or the SIM card (phone number)?<\/strong> This can be understood either by SMS messages in your phone from the addressee YASALUYARI (do a message search), or simply by going to your operator’s office and asking the representative.<\/p>\n\n

If it turns out that you have a blocked IMEI and you already have a residence permit (kimlik), then welcome to the secret section of our site \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n

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Lifecycle<\/h2>\n\n

Since my wife is a photographer in Turkey, we can’t afford to live without a Turkish phone number. Therefore, we were forced to look for workarounds. And we found them!<\/p>\n\n

The tip that we’ll describe below allows you to unlock your phone for free<\/strong>. The procedure is simple enough:<\/p>\n\n

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  1. Get password from e-devlet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Log in to e-devlet and remove the phone lock for 30 days.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. After the phone locks again (or shortly before), repeat the procedure. There is no guarantee that it will work a second time. But people say they’ve been doing this procedure for over a year. True, before, the additional period was not 30 days, but 120 days. Now this period has been reduced to 30 days. (Note: if you use this for more than a year, you could lose your phone registration rights altogether. Read more in the article below).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
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    How do I get the password from E-Devlet?<\/h2>\n\n

    To do this, just go to any nearest post office and ask for the password for the e-devlet. We have a separate, more detailed article about this called: How do I get the password from E-Devlet<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n

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    Free phone unlocking procedure <\/h2>\n\n

    If you have already obtained an E-Devlet password, proceed to the following steps:<\/p>\n\n

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    1. open the login page of the service page for phones<\/h3>\n\n

    Enter the E-Devlet on the “Kullan\u0131m S\u00fcresi Uzatma” form. This can be done in two ways<\/strong>: 1) open directly from the link https:\/\/www.turkiye.gov.tr\/btk-kullanim-suresi-uzatma,<\/a> 2) if this link at the time of reading this article for some reason is no longer available, go to the home page of the site and try typing “Kullan\u0131m S\u00fcresi Uzatma” in the search bar.<\/p>\n\n

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    2. Press the confirm button <\/h3>\n\n
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    On the page that appears, click“Kimli\u011fimi \u015eimdi Do\u011frula<\/strong>” (confirm my identity).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    3. Enter your E-Devlet login and password<\/h3>\n\n
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    This will open the e-devlet login page, where you will be prompted to enter your cimilic (residence permit) number and password. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Enter the number of your residence permit in the field for the number of the cimlik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And in the floor of the E-devlet Sifresi enter your password. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    After that, press Giri\u015f Yap<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

    Congratulations! You went straight to the free foreign phone’s IMEI unlocking page. If not, search for “Kimli\u011fimi \u015eimdi Do\u011frula” again and it will take you to the registration page.<\/p>\n\n

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    4. Confirmation of the terms of service<\/h3>\n\n
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    If you got it right, the first thing you will see is this warning, a brief translation of which I’ll give below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    The translation suggests that:<\/p>\n\n

    Using this service, people who are in our country because of the coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic and cannot return to their countries of residence because of restrictive measures taken, receive an additional thirty (30) days after the one hundred and twenty (120) days maximum period of use of their devices without registration expires. Before starting the process, pay attention to the items listed below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n

    Then there are a few important notices.<\/p>\n\n

    1) The communication device must be registered within one hundred and twenty days of entering the country. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

    Here it might seem that if you run out of 120 days and you extend the unit for another 30 days, that’s 150 days. Which means you will lose the right to register the device!<\/p>\n\n

    In fact, machine translation is not entirely correct. It’s just a matter of the device being disabled after 120 days. <\/p>\n\n

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    And you can register it within 365 days. This is stated on the IMEI registration page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    2) The second notice warns that this action does not extend the right to register the device. I.e. you still have to register it within 365 days of entering the country. If you do not do this, the device in Turkey can only be used with a foreign card.<\/p>\n\n

    3) Notification 3 says that when the additional period expires, the device will be blacklisted.<\/p>\n\n

    4) The last notification tells you to enter all the IMEI of your phone. But we’ll talk about that in the next section.<\/p>\n\n

    After reading all the notifications, check the box (there is one at the bottom of the page) and click Devam Et<\/strong> (continue).<\/p>\n\n

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    5. Entering the IMEI of the phone you want to unlock<\/h3>\n\n
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    On the next page you will be prompted in point 1 to fill in for whom you are registering the phone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n