Turkey
Part 1: Driving with a Disability
Are there any laws or regulations in your country that restrict whether people with disabilities can obtain a driving licence?
No, the legal arrangements for people with disabilities to obtain a driving licence is stipulated in the "Regulation Amending the Regulation on the Health Status Requirements and Medical Examination of Drivers and Learner Drivers published in the Official Gazette numbered 29577 and dated 29 December 2015".
More information can be found here - https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2015/12/20151229-5.htm
Are there any restrictions on the type of vehicle or adaptation to controls that can be driven by a person with a disability?
No
If you have answered yes to Question 4 above, do the same restrictions apply to a person with a disability visiting your country in their own or a rented vehicle?
No
Please give details of the section responsible in your Ministry for driver licensing and vehicle adaptations for people with disabilities. Please also include any websites which give details of the official national policy.
Name of Department/Ministry: Ministry of Interior
Name of section responsible: Directorate General of Civil Registration and Citizenship Affairs
Part 2: Parking Cards for people with a disability
Does your country have a national scheme of parking concessions for people with a disability?
Yes
Which categories of people with a disability are eligible for the parking card?
Other (please specify): - People having vehicles which are registered to their names as "vehicle of a disabled person".
- Disabled people possessing driver licences which are in "H" category or proper restriction code,
- People who do not have a vehicle to their names as "vehicle of a disabled person" and any restriction on their driving licences but who have a medical report stating that they have 90% or higher disability.
Are there parking spaces reserved for people with a disability?
Yes
If you have answered yes, where are the reserved parking spaces?
On street,
In municipal car parks,
Other (please specify):
It is mandatory that one of every 20 parking places is reserved for people with a disability and that at least one of the parking spaces which is nearest to the entrance/exit and elevators of public buildings, regional car parks and public car parks be reserved for people with a disability. Arrangements regarding reserved parking spaces for people with a disability in road parking lots are made on the basis of traffic safety.
What concessions does the parking card give people with a disability?
Other (please specify):
- Disabled people can benefit from the parking spaces for people with a disability arranged in accordance with the Highway Traffic Regulation.
- They can benefit from parking concessions not exceeding 15 minutes on the highway on the condition that they comply with the measures taken in terms of traffic safety and they do not disrupt the traffic.
Are there any regions or cities in your country that do not recognise the parking card, or which have their own, different system?
N/A
Are the same concessions available to individuals with a disability visiting your country?
Yes
If you have answered yes to Question 13 above, please tell us if there is a formal system of reciprocal recognition of parking cards from other countries?
No
Are there minimum dimensions for the size of a parking space reserved for a person with a disability?
Yes, when the disabled parking lot is designed with a transfer area, at least 400 cm wide parking space should be arranged for each vehicle.In these parking spaces, the necessary space is provided for the transfer from the parked vehicle to the real vehicle. When designing a maneuvering area that can be used by two disabled parking spaces, it has to be ensured that the parking spaces have at least 250 cm width and the transfer area has a minimum 150 cm width which can be used in the middle of the two parking spaces. If there is a level difference between this transfer area and the car parking area, the slope should be maximum 1/50.
Please give details of the section in your ministry responsible for parking concessions for people with a disability
Name of Department/Ministry: Ministry of Interior- Turkish National Police
Name of section responsible: Traffic Directorate
Please include a link to any websites which give details of the official national policy on parking concessions for people with a disability.
N/A
Part 3: Hiring a car if you have a disability
Does your country have any laws which require hire car companies to make adapted vehicles available for people with disabilities to rent?
No
Where are such vehicles available?
N/A
Please give details of the section responsible in your ministry for laws/policies on adapted hire cars.
N/A
Part 4: Further Information
Please give contact details (email, phone, weblinks) for any sections or organisations which have supplied information for your response to this survey if they are not already listed.
Name(s) of sections/organisations: Turkish National Police and The Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services