I've blown his mind ....

[stoop]

It's beacuse the drainage pipes are smaller bore than what we have in the UK. If you put paper down you WILL block the loo up at some point in the future and will have an expensive and messy situation - hence the bidet tap. Use this and you shouldn't be putting soiled paper in the bins.

[Scunner]

Pipe diameters on new builds have been exactly the same as British houses for years and year now. Except when the builders can't be bothered and save themselves 3 lira or similar by using the traditional narrower pipes.

[stoop]

"Except when the builders can't be bothered and save themselves 3 lira or similar by using the traditional narrower pipes"

That will be most caes then  

[SuzzPuss]

On a very slightly different subject, but still smell related, in our bathrooms we have a drainage hole in the floor next to the loo.  This drainage hole has a u-bend in it and sometimes, especially when it’s really hot, that u-bend dries out and the drain starts to smell.  We just pour some water down it.  Problem yok.   

[Scunner]

"Except when the builders can't be bothered and save themselves 3 lira or similar by using the traditional narrower pipes"

That will be most caes then   

Sadly you couldn't be more right...

[quackers]

We put a tıle over the draın hole ,but once a week we put water down ıt. Turkısh ladıes wash the floors wıth lots of water the draın hole ıs to carry the water away. Us brıts use a mop and bucket.

[Menthol]

Mention toilets to Brits and look what happens .... 

[kevin3]

Agreed.
It stinks.     

[SuzzPuss]

We put a tıle over the draın hole ,but once a week we put water down ıt. Turkısh ladıes wash the floors wıth lots of water the draın hole ıs to carry the water away. Us brıts use a mop and bucket.

Great idea.  Thanks quackers.

[Karennina]

It really is not worth the risk of putting paper in the loos or any other consumables...What Stoop is predicting exactly that happened to one of our neighbours , someone somewhere on the complex put stuff (other then human waste) in one of the toilets somehow when the blockage came to fruition it came down to my neighbours ground floor place and basically there was human waste (trying to be polite here) all over his bathroom floor in the bedroom and on a fair bit of his furnishings, part of the garden had to be dug up to solve  the  problem properly, by all accounts it was an expensive task and I forget just how many cleans he had to have in his apartment to try and get rid of the mess and the stench!!it certainly was not a task for the faint hearted