I was in Shamrock Bar last night around 10.50pm, when 6 uniformed police officers & 2 plain- clothes officers entered & proceeded to count the youngsters in the bar. The senior officer then had a "right go" at the Turkish barman in charge, pointing out that there were 6 youngsters in the bar ,who were obviously under 16 years of age, which apparently is against the law here? I later had a conversation regarding this, with my friend, Gökhan, who assured me that this is indeed true, and bar-owners can be fined very heavily, & closed down for a time.
Pardon my looking on the bleak side of things, but, surely this could lead to a further down-turn to tourism in Turkey? If a family come here on holiday, surely they would prefer to have their kids near to them at all times, & that means in bars etc. { Always bearing in mind what happened in Portugal]
Gordy.