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 (). In 2016, the Turkish Government decided to remove daylight saving time changes. After this decision, Northern Cyprus followed Turkey on October 30, 2016 but returned to Eastern European Time on October 29, 2017. In October 2017, the Turkish Government announced to return to daylight saving time on October 28, 2018 but later cancelled this decision.