Time in Turkey

Turkey Time (also called GMT+3) is a time zone that has been used in Turkey since September 8, 2016. It is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+03:00). In 2016, the Turkish Government decided to remove daylight saving time changes.^[1] After this decision, Northern Cyprus followed Turkey on October 30, 2016 but returned to Eastern European Time on October 29, 2017.^[2][3] In October 2017, the Turkish Government announced to return to daylight saving time on October 28, 2018 but later cancelled this decision.^[4][5]

Time zones of Europe. Turkey Time is highlighted in light green.

Time zones in the Middle East

	UTC+02:00	Egypt Standard Time
	UTC+02:00 UTC+03:00	Eastern European Time / Israel Standard Time / Palestine Standard Time Eastern European Summer Time / Israel Summer Time / Palestine Summer Time
	UTC+03:00	Arabia Standard Time / Turkey Standard Time
	UTC+03:30	Iran Standard Time
	UTC+04:00	Gulf Standard Time

▉▉▉▉ Standard time observed all year
▉ Daylight saving time observed