Initiated in 2011 with the collaboration of Türk Telekom Group and the Boğaziçi University Visually Impaired Technology and Education Laboratory (GETEM), the Phone Library project has recorded over 3.5 million minutes in calls so far. The project provides book reading services for the visually impaired over the phone.
A first of its kind in Turkey, the library has been called 165,000 times by visually impaired citizens.
Suzanne Collins's popular science fiction series "Hunger Games," Arthur Conan Boyle's fantasy novel "Lost World" and Görev Magazine's first edition, a culture and art magazine prepared for the visually impaired, were the most listened to works in the first six months of 2015.
Istanbul, İzmir, Ankara, Erzurum and Bursa respectively were the cities with the highest number of callers over this period.
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