The video showed the car’s speedometer climbing rapidly as the minister overtook other vehicles on the Ankara-Nigde highway. It was set to the tunes of popular Turkish music and excerpts from a speech by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan praising the government’s infrastructure. Traffic police announced a fine of 9,267 Turkish Lira (about $280) imposed on the minister for exceeding the speed limit, approximately 50 kilometers from the capital, Ankara. The maximum speed limit on highways in Turkey is 140 kilometers per hour, while official data shows the country experienced about 1.5 million road accidents last year, resulting in 6,351 deaths.
