If you have any electric items, like DVD players,Sat box, Radio's, Xbox, Lap tops etc bring them over on trips in your luggage that way you should not get stung with bandroll tax on these items. We had to pay a bribe for our container but we were not told about it till after and found out it was for the pool table we had as apparently it's a gambling item and should not be imported, our taxes and bandroll came to 5300TL at this end, despite paying door to door in the UK we went with Doree Bonner who sub contracted it to Dolphin who in turn sub contracted it to a local comapny in Izmir,of course we were never told any of this and our contract was with Doree Bonner but we had to deal with the company in Izmir a lot on comms, we also had a few crates dissappear and obviously with 3 different companies it was difficult to say who did what, on the insurance papers it is worth taking the time to list as many items as possible and not underestimate to try and keep your premium down as we needed to make a claim and found out that generalising items was not covered on the insurance. I don't regret bringing our own stuff over but will point out to make sure it is stuff you use and get rid of the crap and clutter that you can build up over the years before shipping it.
