Türkiye license plate: Standard
Issued today 2014 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü (General Directorate of Security). One of 9 Türkiye license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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99 LL 9999, for example40 TG 2950(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2014 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- Size
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520 × 110 mm · every country's size
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Standard 240×150 mm
standard · 240 × 150 mm
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Standard 320×210 mm
standard · 320 × 210 mm
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Standard 300×150 mm
standard · 300 × 150 mm
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- About this plate
- The ordinary Turkish mark, six statutory shapes, one design era.
- How the region is encoded
- See header fact 4 for why the range is not encoded.
- Legal basis
- Madde 55 was REPEALED on 2025-11-04 (RG 33067). The shapes are still issued; the article describing them is gone. See the file header.
- How numbers are issued
- Madde 55 ¶2: numbers are allotted "sıra esasına göre" (in sequence) from EGM-determined lists of province codes and letter/digit groups. Madde 57 adds that each district registration office receives its own DISTINCT letter groups, allotted on the provincial police chief's proposal with the governor's approval, and that a letter group given to one district may not be given to another.
Legal basis and sources
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf
- mevzuat.gov.tr https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf
- resmigazete.gov.tr https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2025/11/20251104-4.htm
- mevzuat.gov.tr https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.5.2918.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is tr-standard-2014. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Türkiye's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/tr \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "tr-standard-2014")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/tr/tr-standard-2014.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/tr/tr-standard-2014/template.svg