
One EP and seventeen singles were issued in Turkey by Melodi Plak for Decca, from 1963 to 1969, up to 'Honky Tonk Women' [69.106] which was exceptionally issued into an exclusive picture sleeve.
Four types of labels could be met - shown in the table below, a few singles being pressed with labels of both types II and III. Plain promo labels also exist. These singles were distributed into two types of local Decca company dust sleeves : logo in a red oval with blue vertical stripes in the London style [until 1967], and the typical British blue swirl [1967+].
A generic untitled picture cover was made [here on the left] for the EP 'The Rolling Stones - Volume 2' [SDE 7501] which was also used to house some other singles. It only has the 5 members names and portaits on its back. On rare occasions, this picture cover was overprinted [in red, mostly] with titles and catalogue number on its right side for a particular single [so far 3 have been documented for sure, but more may exist].
type I | type II | type III | type IV |
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open Decca 1963-1964 |
curved Decca I 1965-1966 |
curved Decca II 1966-1967 |
boxed Decca 1967-1970 |
The Turkish branch of Decca followed very much the UK roster, from the debut single 'Come On' [F 11675] until 'We Love You'
[F 12654] in 1967, including its catalogue numbers.
'Get Off Of My Cloud' [F 22265] and 'Satisfaction' [F 12220] were released in their 'export' versions,
yet 'Satisfaction' was mislabeled with 'The Spider & The Fly' on its flip side instead of 'The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man'.
Quite surprisingly, Turkey was the only other country beside England to have pressed 'Come On' in 1963 as the debut single with 'I Want To Be Loved' on the flip side [Denmark produced PS for the UK imported record only].


More art sleeves were produced during the 70's, but on Rolling Stones Records.
The second single 'I Wanna Be Your Man' [F 11764] in 1964 has a correctly spelled 'Stoned' on B-side, but its A-side exists misspelled as 'Wanna Beyour Man' and a copy also exists mislabeled with two B-sides!
A few labels variations were met ['Satisfaction', 'Paint It, Black'...], until the release of 'She's A Rainbow' / '2000 Light Years From Home' [68.101] in late 1967, when the catalogue numbers changed for the Turkish system.



If a one-of-a-kind mislabeled copy of 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' [68.112] exists with The Cedars on B-side, the main curiosity there was the release of 'The Lantern' [68.203] on... London! - distributed into a London b&w CS - a track which was never issued as a single in Europe!