OK, thanks for the reply. It appears I will get that hold music stuck in my head again....:)

You don't have to call IST, instead you could call your local office (if there is one). The music was amusing.

I booked my flights for late Oct. on thy.com and they told me when I can pick my seat.

For long haul is 100 days before departure, and for intra Europe flights it 7 days before departure AFAIK.

After reading this thread I called asap to Istanbul to get a good window seat for my IST-HKG Comfort Class flight. No queue, no on hold, the guy in the 24h reservation center was service minded and prompt for my requests ^. I´m surprised positively; although in near future customer should be able to reserve his/her seat online like I do with LH, SQ and other. But I´m happy now, got best seats...

In year 2012 calling the airline(who markets itself Europe's best airline) for seat assignments is simply not acceptable.

Yep - online services are easy to create, but their hard product is good however.

Short-haul "intra-Europe" seat selection in Y
 

This is my first time buying a regular Y class ticket from IST to European destination. I read somewhere here that you can select seats 7 days in advance. Or is it possible to call them now? (It's just such a nightmare talking to TK reservations.) Can one select an exit row in advance? I am *G if that helps. On TK domestic they are good about putting elites in the front of the plane where they have better seats.

If I put the TK PNR into the website then I don't see any seatmap link. I actually bought the ticket on UA's website because it was much easier and no service fees.

I've done Y booking class short-haul in eco (in combination with CC long-haul) and then I recall selecting a seat during booking. Luckily I managed to upgrade these flights.

Do a dummy booking on thy.com and see if the seatmap is showing. If yes - you can select seats for the particular flight by calling/emailing callcenter or sales office.

Does anyone know if TK now blocks bulkhead seats and the 2 seats rows at the back of their 777?

I called TK today to get seat assignment for me and 3 kids, and they told me that those seats are gone (seat map opened yesterday) and it's very strange that they are all gone.

I'd very much like the 2 seats row because I can easily get to my kids and they don't have to sit next to strangers.

Right now I have them in a row of 3 and me in the middle row aisle. It's ok but it's not easy to get to the one sit by the window.

Thanks in advance!

AFAIK, they seems to block bulkhead seats in B777 (reserved even in Comfort Class when seat map opened 100 days before flight) and maybe those last rows have already booked by pax from call center?

I don't think TK used to block any seats - we used to get bulkhead everytime we call the call centre.

The last rows could also be blocked because AF blocks them by default. They call those seat Depotee seats.

I called office in HK because they seem to be able to do the same thing as the call centre people in IST. Calling IST is a hit and miss.

Just called IST call centre and I got the last 2 rows :)

Yes you´re right, checked it from my flights. Bulkhead seats are available if you just call to IST 24h line 100 days before departure.

I was able to pull up a seatmap for a dummy booking (intra-Europe). The exit row looked like it was blocked and 4 of the seats in row 4 (first in eco) were occupied plus one further back.

Called TK and agent told me call back 7 days before the flight. I am about 30 days out now.

Are TK *Gs able to select seats or how do you explain the handful of seats selected? I checked another flight the same day and also found a handful non-exit seats taken.

Seats info
 

Hello, i booked my tickets with turkish airlines through agent, i am travelling in october but i booked my tickets back in february, that time travel agent asked me to call back in august for seats reservation mean while he gave me some virtuallythere.com link to see my booking, i printed out my eticket from there and under seats it says checkin required but now i directly called turkish airline and reserved my seats of my choice but still on virtuallythere.com it says checkin required under seats column.

So basically my question is that how would i get my updated eticket with seat numbers on it??

Welcome to FT!

If you reserved your seats by calling TK directly, they may not be displayed on VirtuallyThere.

Although it is not strictly necessary, if you would like to get a printed confirmation, try the Manage My Booking function on the TK.com website.

Whenever i entered my eticket number and last name on thy.com under my booking it says sorry for inconvinience try again later.. :s