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In this paper, we propose an efficient technique for an iterative soft input soft output (SISO) decoding algorithm of block turbo codes with constituent Hamming codes. Pyndiah’s iterative decoding algorithm for block turbo codes supports various code rates by using concatenation, and shows high bit error rate (BER) performance in an additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGN) environment as the iterative decoding progresses. However, one disadvantage of this code is that the delay increases during decoding with an increasing number of iterations. By employing syndrome-based iterative SISO decoding and iterative SISO decoding using an alpha value, we could obtain high BER performance. In addition, we propose a SISO-hybrid maximum likelihood decoding (SISO-H-MLD) algorithm which achieves almost the same performance as SISO decoding while reducing the number of iterations.