Turkey’s transport minister ended up with a rushing ticket after posting a video through which he was driving at extreme velocity on a freeway.
Abdulkadir Uraloğlu shared footage on X late Sunday exhibiting him behind the wheel on the Ankara-Niğde freeway, listening to people songs and clips of speeches by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with the hashtag #TurkeyAccelerates.
The video confirmed the minister’s speedometer hitting 225 kilometers per hour, properly over Turkey’s 140 km/h restrict.
Inside hours, Uraloğlu reposted the clip, admitting he had “successfully denounced” himself. “I unintentionally exceeded the velocity restrict for a brief interval,” he wrote, including that authorities had fined him 9,267 lira (round €190).
The incident drew widespread consideration on-line, with critics questioning the minister’s judgment. One social media consumer requested: “Pricey Minister, I’m genuinely curious. Is there not even a single individual in your workforce who would say, ‘Pricey Minister, it seems you exceeded the velocity restrict on this video; sharing it may trigger issues?’”
Uraloğlu additionally posted a duplicate of the rushing ticket and insisted he could be “rather more cautious” sooner or later, stressing that “sticking to the velocity restrict is obligatory for everybody.”