Turkey eSIM with Calls & Phone Number
Turkey eSIM from 29,95€ with a real international number (+33), international calls & SMS and 20–100 GB of data across 140+ countries. Register WhatsApp, Telegram or any app and receive SMS codes on your number — no extra app needed. Instant QR delivery, no contract.
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Your plan only starts counting when the eSIM first connects at your destination — so you can buy today and travel in three weeks.
How does Simbye eSIM work for Turkey?
Get connected in under 2 minutes
Set it up before you fly
You buy the eSIM online and the setup arrives by email: a link to tap plus a QR code. Do it calmly at home on Wi-Fi, not in a rush at the gate.
Land in Turkey
Istanbul (IST), Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), Antalya (AYT), Dalaman (DLM), Bodrum-Milas (BJV), İzmir Adnan Menderes (ADB) or Ankara Esenboğa (ESB): as soon as you are on the ground, switch data roaming on for this line. This is exactly where most people get stuck.
You are online
The plan starts counting from the first connection to a Turkish network, not from the moment you buy. Set the Turkey line as your data line and keep your usual number active for calls, with its data switched off. Hotspot for a laptop or tablet is allowed.
Check Device Compatibility
Make sure your device supports eSIM before purchasing
Which networks will you be on in Turkey?
This Turkish eSIM with number finds a local network on its own — there is nothing for you to configure.
Half of all mobile speed tests in the country come out above this, half below. Speedtest Global Index, July 2026. There are no separate figures per network for this country.
There is nothing to choose. The line comes from Orange Worldwide, and once you have landed and data roaming is switched on for this line, it registers as a guest on one of the country's three networks — Turkcell, Vodafone or Türk Telekom. Which one you get is decided by your phone based on signal strength. You never type in any settings, and you cannot pin the line to a particular operator.
If it refuses to connect somewhere, one of three things almost always fixes it: check that data roaming is really on for this line, toggle airplane mode off and on, or switch network selection from automatic to manual once and tap a network from the list. In basement restaurants, deep inside the Grand Bazaar and in Cappadocia's underground cities there is simply no signal — that is normal, not a fault. Northern Cyprus is treated separately from Turkey by the operators, so do not rely on this eSIM there.
eSIM or a local SIM card in Turkey?
This one comes down to which number you need. The eSIM is live on landing with calls and texts on a +33 line and no passport registration; a Turkish +90 card is what Getir and Yemeksepeti codes actually reach.
| Compared | Simbye eSIM | Local SIM card |
|---|---|---|
| ID and registration | Not needed, you buy online and set it up by QR code | Passport required, the SIM is registered to your name in the shop |
| When you get online | Set up before departure, live the moment you land in Istanbul or Antalya | Only after arrival, find the counter and queue |
| Price | Fixed price up front, prepaid in your own currency | Tourist tariffs in 2026 ran roughly between 1,300 and 3,200 lira depending on the operator, dearer at the airport than in town |
| Phone number | French number starting +33, calls and texts included | Turkish mobile number starting +90 |
| SMS codes from Turkish apps | Sign-up at Getir or Yemeksepeti usually fails because only +90 gets through | Codes arrive, and that is the real advantage of a local SIM |
| Your usual number | Stays active alongside, people still reach you on it | On a phone with a single SIM slot you have to take your own card out |
| If something goes wrong | Support by email, reachable from Turkey too | Back to the shop, usually in Turkish, ideally with the receipt |
| Language and payment | Purchase and receipt in English, paid with your own card | Form and advice mostly in Turkish, cash in lira often needed |
Turkey eSIM with number instead of roaming on your home contract
Turkey is close by geographically and far away on the price list. Most operators file it in a separate zone and bill per day or per megabyte — what that adds up to is something you only see on the bill back home.
The cost rarely comes from deliberate browsing. It comes from what runs in the background: photo backup at the hotel, mail syncing, app updates, navigation from the airport to your room. There is also a trap on the Aegean coast: between Bodrum and Kos, or between Kuşadası and Samos, the shores are so close that phones happily latch onto the Greek network on the other side, and you are billed at the rate for Greece without doing a thing.
So the reason for this eSIM is a plain one: 20 to 100 GB for 30 days, prepaid and with no contract, plus a number people can reach you on while your main SIM pulls no data.
Where the networks actually reach
Three operators cover the country: Turkcell, Vodafone and Türk Telekom. Coverage is dense in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa, Adana, Gaziantep and Antalya, along the main intercity roads and across the holiday regions — the Turkish Riviera with Side, Belek, Alanya and Kemer, the Aegean with Bodrum, Marmaris, Fethiye, Ölüdeniz and Kuşadası, plus Cappadocia around Göreme, Ürgüp and Nevşehir, Pamukkale and Ephesus near Selçuk.
It thins out where almost nobody lives. In the Taurus mountains behind the coast, in the Kaçkar range above the Black Sea, on lonely stretches of the Lycian Way between the coves and across the highlands of eastern Anatolia the signal can drop out — and which operator still delivers something there is decided by your phone, not by you. You have no signal at all in Cappadocia's underground cities such as Derinkuyu and Kaymaklı. In the Grand Bazaar and on the metro at rush hour there is a network, but it is shared by an awful lot of people. Download your maps, tickets and translations in advance.
Device registration and ID rules in Turkey
Turkey runs a central device register. If you use a phone brought from abroad in the country for a long stretch, you have to register it and pay a fee after 120 days — otherwise the handset gets blocked on Turkish networks. What triggers this is continuous use with a Turkish SIM card. For a two or three week holiday the rule is irrelevant.
The second point affects you straight away: buying a Turkish SIM requires your passport, the card is registered to your name in the shop, and tourist tariffs are a separate, distinctly more expensive segment than the contracts locals get. This eSIM you order online, prepaid, with no ID and no shop visit.
What does an eSIM for Turkey cost?
Simbye offers 3 plans for Turkey from €29,95 to €55,95 — prepaid, no contract.
Plans for Turkey range from 20 GB to 100 GB.
| Plan | Validity | Price | Per travel day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 GB | 30 days | €29,95 | €0,99 |
| 50 GB | 30 days | €46,95 | €1,56 |
| 100 GB | 30 days | €55,95 | €1,86 |
- Networks
- Orange Worldwide
- Setting it up
- A link in your email, or the QR code — one tap is enough
- Network technology
- 4G/LTE — and 5G where the network already offers it
- APN and settings
- Nothing to set. The eSIM brings everything with it
- Hotspot
- Allowed — for a laptop, tablet or a travel companion
- Calls and texts
- Included, with your own number
- Number's dialling code
- +33 (France)
- Your own number
- Stays in the phone and stays reachable
- Contract
- None. The plan ends by itself
- Worth knowing
- Roaming on your home contract gets billed here — this eSIM is prepaid, so nothing is added afterwards
Frequently Asked Questions about Turkey eSIM with Calls & Phone Number
Data, calls, real phone numbers, top-ups and setup — everything you need to know before you buy a Simbye eSIM.
