Internet users in Turkey stay online for an average of ten hours a week, an European organization said here on Tuesday. The Mediascope 2010, conducted by the European Interactive Advertising Association among 23,500 participants, said that about 18.2 million people over 16 years of age in Turkey regularly use the Internet every week. The semi-official Anatolia news agency quoted the study as saying that one out of every four Internet users in Turkey spent as much as 16 hours online. Thirty-five percent of users in Turkey said 'they could not live without the Internet,' according to the study. E-mailing comes first with 57 percent share in use of web applications as 54 percent of Internet users said 'life would be unimaginable' without electronic mailing. The share of broadband internet users in Turkey is 64 percent as 57 percent of those communicate over wireless networks. Fifty-three percent of Turkish users stay online to remain in touch with their friends and relatives and 44 percent said they handled their financial needs better on the Internet. Ninety-one percent of the Turkish users do online shopping and spend an average of 623 euro for 15 pieces of goods in six months. 