Footage shared by Abdulkadir Uraloğlu under hashtag #TurkeyAccelerates inadvertently shows him speeding
Turkey’s transport minister has been given a speeding fine after posting a video of himself racing down a highway with the hashtag #TurkeyAccelerates.
On Sunday evening, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu shared a video of himself on X driving along a highway near the capital, Ankara, listening to folk songs and clips of speeches by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
In several separate shots that inadvertently show the speedometer, he can be seen clocking up speeds of between 120 and 140mph (190 to 225km/h). The speed limit on that highway in Turkey is 85mph.
Several hours later, Uraloğlu reposted the footage, admitting he had been fined for breaking the speed limit, saying that in sharing the video he had effectively dropped himself in it.
