Hi I’m in Turkey for the first time and I’m confused about the way you use roundabouts.
There’s one outside my hotel and even though there’s a yield sign in front of the roundabout, drivers enter it as if they had the right of way and the drivers already on the roundabouts stop to let them by, even though it should be the other way round.
In the picture, the silver and white Peugeots stop in the middle of the roundabout to let the white Ford through, even though the Ford has a yield sign.
What am I missing?
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Posted by nhp890
4 Comments
You’re not wrong. Indeed, you described the correct usage of roundabouts.
Unfortunately in Turkey, there is quite low awareness about how to use a roundabout. It’s not asked on license exams sufficiently. Even some police use it in wrong way.
You’re not missing anything. People just don’t know how to use roundabouts.
Barely anyone in this country cares about the rules of Passage Priority (basic yield signs) let alone how to navigate a roundabout. In inner Anatolia the situation is so bad that there are signs at every roundabout explaining how they work.
You’ll find lots of teens shitting on their own people, the Turks here. It’s not as bad as they will make it out to be.
Yes, some people are very ignorant on traffic rules and they will do all sorts of things in traffic, including just speeding past a roundabout.
In my town I rarely see anyone not yield when entering one. Worst I see are people in the roundabout yielding for the ones wanting to enter. Few honks and they move.