Dolmuş

The Interior Ministry has lifted another transport restriction initially imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus by removing the obligation that 50 percent of seats in public transportation vehicles should be empty.

Camera systems will be installed in all minibuses and shared taxis (dolmuş) in Istanbul in order to lower the risk of accidents by ensuring safe transportation and tracking routes, locations and the speed of vehicles. 

"He should have been hanged in Syntagma Square, in Athens.  But, unfortunately, the death penalty has been abolished in Greece!" said the hyper taxi driver who was driving us back to Athens from the port of Astakos, just across the Ionian Sea islands of Lefkas, Kephalonia and Ithaki, in the western part of Greece.