Turkey Time (TRT) (also called Time in Turkey) is a time zone used in Turkey since September 2016. The time is 3 hours ahead of UTC (). In 2016, Turkey's government had decided to scrap daylight saving time changes to the country.Northern Cyprus followed Turkey on October 30, 2016but 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 these plans.