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.

Türkiye license plate, Standard (2014 to today), sample 40 TG 2950

Format, years and the law

Format
99 LL 9999, for example 40 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
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Türkiye license plate, Standard 240×150 mm (2014 to today)

    Standard 240×150 mm

    standard · 240 × 150 mm

  • Türkiye license plate, Standard 320×210 mm (2014 to today)

    Standard 320×210 mm

    standard · 320 × 210 mm

  • Türkiye license plate, Standard 300×150 mm (2014 to today)

    Standard 300×150 mm

    standard · 300 × 150 mm

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Madde 55 was REPEALED on 2025-11-04 (RG 33067).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

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf
  2. mevzuat.gov.tr https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf
  3. resmigazete.gov.tr https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2025/11/20251104-4.htm
  4. 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")'