SMS API for Turkiye: bulk SMS to +90 numbers
Turkiye
Calling code +90
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00307
- Messages for $100
- 32,573
- Local language
- Turkish
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Turkiye costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00307 | $0.00614 |
| 1,000 | $3.07 | $6.14 |
| 10,000 | $30.70 | $61.40 |
| 100,000 | $307.00 | $614.00 |
Number format in Turkiye
Mobile numbers in Turkiye have 10 digits after +90. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (0501 234 56 78); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +90 501 234 56 78.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Turkish fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use ç, ğ, ı and ş: those letters are outside GSM-7 and turn the message into Unicode at 70 characters per segment (67 per part). For short alerts, write them without those letters to keep one segment; for longer texts, the console names each letter that changed the encoding.
Time zone and timing
Turkiye keeps UTC+3 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Istanbul is always 06:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Turkiye with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (TR) and the price. A delivered or failed event follows on your webhook, and a failed message is refunded.
For a list, send the same text to up to 10,000 numbers with POST /v1/batches, or a personal text per number in messages.
curl https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BULKSMSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"to": "+905012345678", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'const res = await fetch("https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages", {
method: "POST",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BULKSMSAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ to: "+905012345678", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00307", country: "TR"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+905012345678", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BULKSMSAPI_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json", "User-Agent": "northwind-app/1.0"},
method="POST",
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as res:
print(json.load(res)["price"]) # "0.00307"What developers send to Turkiye
Order confirmations
E-commerce platforms in Istanbul and Izmir send SMS to customers confirming their purchases and delivery details.
Payment reminders
Banks send SMS to customers in regions like Antalya to remind them of upcoming loan or credit card payments.
Flight updates
Airlines notify passengers in Turkiye about changes in flight schedules or gate information for airports like Istanbul Airport.
Appointment reminders
Clinics in Ankara and other cities send SMS to patients to remind them of upcoming medical appointments.
More countries in Middle East
SMS to Turkiye: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Turkiye?
How many SMS to Turkiye does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Turkiye numbers for the API?
Which language should SMS be sent in?
How to reach expatriates and visitors?
Start sending to Turkiye
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Turkiye at $0.00307 per segment, from the console or with one API call.