Yesterday a Coordinated Government action across Turkey targeted short term rental properties that should be registered with the authorities. Over 10,000 properties were visited in one day and fines of 2,183,618 TL in fines handed out. Not to mention the poor holidaymakers who would often have been removed from the properties.
Apologies for it being a Google Translate -you'll get the idea though.
According to the statement made by the General Directorate of Security, a total of 10 thousand 56 houses were evaluated, which were assessed to be day-to-day in terms of their location, in the researches previously recorded or conducted on the Identity Reporting System. A total of 2 million 183 thousand 618 TL fines were applied to 547 houses.
A written statement on the inspection from the General Directorate states: "In the coordination of the Office of Public Security, the third of the audits for the daily rented houses were carried out simultaneously by the 81 Provincial Security Directorate on January 12. With the inspection, it was aimed to prevent terrorist organizations members from engaging in terrorist activities and to carry out combat against terrorism effectively when it was taken into account that they were able to carry out organizational activities in order to prevent the elements that are risky in terms of general security and general health and to carry out organizational activities.
A total of 10,056 houses assessed as being the house of the day were checked, 46 houses were newly registered, 81 houses were closed "According to the statement of the police, 547 houses were fined 2 million 183 thousand 618 TL in total. In addition, 31 wanted persons and 5 foreign nationals who violated visa were apprehended during the inspections