It is still very expensive to use your Mobile Phone for Internet Access in Turkey and until 2007/8 there were only really uninviting shady looking, smokey internet cafes at your disposal with strange Turkish keyboards and odd letters annoyingly popping up in your emails often making them indecipherable to the recipients.
Since then WI FI Internet Access has become the restaurant owners number one MUST HAVE priority and many of them now are well set up with good established internet links. You can use their computers, most have a laptop for customer use, but if you carry your own palm or laptop with you when you travel then you can link into these networks for no extra charge (other than drinks or food bill) and surf to your heart content. Most large hotels also offer the same facility with guest mailboxes and passwords.
