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Turkey's high-speed trains currently run between Ankara and Eskişehir (1 hour 27 minutes), and Ankara and Konya (1 hour 50 minutes).

The YHT high-speed service cuts the travel time between Istanbul and Ankara to about 5-1/2 hours: you travel from the Ankara Gar to Eskişehir at high speed, then transfer to a bus at Eskişehir for the ride to Istanbul. (All train service to and from Istanbul has been cancelled until 2014 while the rail line is upgraded for high-speed service.)

When the high-speed tracks between Eskişehir and Istanbul are completed in 2014, the 533-km (331-mile) journey on the Istanbul-Ankara route may be in the realm of three hours, challenging the current monopoly held by airlines on such rapid transport between Turkey's two largest cities.

The ambitious high-speed train project foresees additional fast train lines between Istanbul and Antalya, and from Ankara east to Sivas and Erzurum, but these lines will take years to develop.

High-speed trains feature two classes of service (Normal & Business), and a Cafeteria car.

A new station for the high-speed train service will be built adjoining Ankara's historic station (Ankara Gar) in the near future.

As for Istanbul, it's foreseen that high-speed trains from Ankara and Eskişehir will terminate at Söğütlüçeşme, a station about 1 km east of Haydarpaşa Gar, where travelers can transfer to regional Marmaray and suburban (banliyö) trains, the Metro and Metrobuses for the final segment of their journeys. (Haydarpaşa Station will probably no longer be used by passenger trains, but will become a museum, or put to another use.)

Here's the official TCDD high-speed train timetable as of April 2012.