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After the action in Sofia last week, taxi drivers in Varna are also preparing for protests, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

Their request is to raise the minimum fares per kilometer. According to drivers, their fuel and tax costs have increased many times and are currently hard to survive on the market.

Taxi drivers will protest in front of Sofia Municipality. The start of the discontent organized by the National Taxi Syndicate is at 12 o'clock.

Turkish police and municipal security officers seek to find a total of 120 taxi drivers who have scammed tourists.

A team from daily Hürriyet have disguised themselves as "foreign tourists" to document the reckless attitudes of taxi drivers in the streets of Istanbul. Their intentions were not to single out a single person but to expose how taxi scams work.

 Greek taxi drivers staged a 12-hour strike on Thursday over what they say is unfair competition from ride-hailing operators, in a sector still reeling from the country's financial crisis.

Greece imposed stricter regulations on the sector this year, including forcing app operators to apply for a permit and use licensed taxi drivers or face fines.

A taxi driver in Istanbul has been fined and banned from traffic for refusing to take a disabled passenger, local media reported.

Taxi drivers across Greece have called a 12-hour strike this week in protest at a drop in business that they attribute to the growing popularity of ride-sharing services.

The strike will start at 4 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. on Thursday, with cabbies saying that the government has failed to implement regulations pertaining to chauffeuring services.

A taxi driver in a viral video showing her crying after being paid a bill by two Iranian women in Istanbul has said the incident ended well with the help of good-hearted people. 

Two female tourists from Iran have made a female taxi driver in Istanbul cry by paying the fare with a fake 100 Turkish Lira bill. 

Turkey's "most luxurious taxi cab" is offering its customers to play virtual reality (VR) games during their trip. Click through for the story in photos...