Türkiye license plate: Temporary customs gmr

Issued today Documented since 2014. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü (General Directorate of Security). One of 9 Türkiye license plates.

Türkiye license plate, Temporary customs gmr (documented since 2014), sample 38 GMR 164

Format, years and the law

Format
99 GMR 999, for example 38 GMR 164 (9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 2014; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
About this plate
Temporary CUSTOMS plates, GMR plus three figures, and the only plate in the Turkish table printed red-on-green. Customs temporary plates may be plastic or cardboard (Madde 53) and then carry the 2 cm diagonal band.
Legal basis
Maddeler 55 and 56 repealed 2025-11-04 (RG 33067).

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

This plate in your app

The series id is tr-temporary-customs-gmr. 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-temporary-customs-gmr")'