26 Şubat 2024 Pazartesi

"Beat & Release": Traffic Ticket Offensive by "Honorary Inspector" Roils 55th Street, in Istanbul

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 February 2024)













  
                             The 55th Street Revolt!

On 55th Street in the Davutpaşa neighborhood of Istanbul's Esenler 
district, many drivers have been given parking tickets over and over 
again on the same day and at the same times.  In order to protest this
situation, drivers formed a convoy, came to 55th Street, blew their car
horns and covered their license plates to avoid getting more tickets (!). 

One of the 55th Street victims, Vokan Karakaş, lamented that "a retired
policeman who is "fahri müfettiş" ( honorary traffic inspector (!)) started
to write traffic tickets against us repeatedly.  I realized that I wasn't the 
only victim so now we have a WhatsApp group with 150 members and 
many of us formed a protest convoy to condemn this 'honorary inspector', 
who wrote 7-8 tickets for our cars at the same time on the same day.  We
went to court and found out who he is - a retired policeman.  The day
he wrote seven tickets against me I wasn't even in Esenler and I had
video and photographic proof that I wasn't there!"

Counterattacking, the "honorary inspector" pointed to this 
sign prominently displayed on 55th Street: 



























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