Turkey’s transport minister ended up with a speeding ticket after posting a video in which he was driving at excessive speed on a highway.
Abdulkadir Uraloğlu shared footage on X late Sunday showing him behind the wheel on the Ankara-Niğde highway, listening to folk songs and clips of speeches by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with the hashtag #TurkeyAccelerates.
The video showed the minister’s speedometer hitting 225 kilometers per hour, well over Turkey’s 140 km/h limit.
Within hours, Uraloğlu reposted the clip, admitting he had “effectively denounced” himself. “I unintentionally exceeded the speed limit for a short period,” he wrote, adding that authorities had fined him 9,267 lira (around €190).
The incident drew widespread attention online, with critics questioning the minister’s judgment. One social media user asked: “Dear Minister, I am genuinely curious. Is there not even a single person in your team who would say, ‘Dear Minister, it appears you exceeded the speed limit in this video; sharing it could cause problems?’”
Uraloğlu also posted a copy of the speeding ticket and insisted he would be “much more careful” in the future, stressing that “sticking to the speed limit is mandatory for everyone.”
