{"id":10486,"date":"2026-01-29T15:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/court-ruling-allows-refund-of-vehicle-inspection-fees-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:49:24","slug":"court-ruling-allows-refund-of-vehicle-inspection-fees-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/court-ruling-allows-refund-of-vehicle-inspection-fees-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Ruling Allows Refund of Vehicle Inspection Fees in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Turkish Consumer Court in the capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a3%d9%86%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%83%d9%8a%d8%a7\/\">Ankara<\/a>, has ruled that additional fees or commissions charged when paying vehicle inspection fees by credit card are illegal, allowing drivers to claim a refund of these amounts.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The decision came after a citizen filed a complaint with the Consumer Protection Arbitration Committee, stating that he had paid an extra fee of around 80 Turkish lira as a commission when completing his vehicle inspection using a credit card. <\/p>\n\n<p>The court ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/turkey-begins-charging-road-fees-for-foreign-vehicles-upon-leaving-the-country\/\">vehicle<\/a> inspection is a mandatory public service and that imposing additional charges for electronic payment options constitutes an unfair and unjust condition against consumers. <\/p>\n\n<p>It also rejected the arguments of the company operating the inspection stations, which claimed that the commission was transferred to a payment service provider, considering this justification insufficient. <\/p>\n\n<p>Under Turkey\u2019s Consumer Protection Law No. 6502, the ruling is seen as a landmark decision that could set a legal precedent benefiting millions of drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkish Consumer Court in the capital, Ankara, has ruled that additional fees or commissions charged when paying vehicle inspection fees by credit card are illegal, allowing drivers to claim a refund of these amounts. The decision came after a citizen filed a complaint with the Consumer Protection Arbitration Committee, stating that he had paid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[411],"class_list":["post-10486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-turkey-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10487,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions\/10487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}