i got quite used to juggling with bills. rent, electricity, water … , after some time living here, i know quite well, when the problems get serious, if you don`t pay. And İ have strict priorities. İf the telephone is cut, no problem, but no internet is code red. (so of course no electricity is as well as my modem is not doing without it …).
Anyway, my phone was not working for months for outgoing calls, but the internet bills were paid at least every three months and only sometimes İ got late, but this just meant some hours cut, ugly enough, but still manageable. This time, on friday, my online breakfast was interrupted, the phone was totally dead and as the adsl needs the phone line for its signal - no internet. İ got nervous. a new problem. I convinced my friend on whose name the phone is (no stying permission, no official address, no phone line …) to join me on the way to türk telekom - an office like a caricature of an 19th century office, about 20 people working and we were sent from one to another about 20 times, needed 5 signatures, and the first step was learn everybody’s first names in order to get any information. the phone contract was canceled and had to be made new. after one hour we finished and were promised to get phone and internet back on monday or tuesday.

a weekend without internet … well, we survived.

today the phone was working again, tuuuut, but no call out possible. some minutes later even this problem disappeared. But still no adsl signal. Just before the office was about to close İ decided to have a visit again. they seemed to have forgotten the internet, and speaking on the hot line is hard with my poor turkish language. What İ saw there was strange: my acount on a to do-list printed on paper. İ still don`t know, whether my visit made things working, but now everything is ok.