The Turkish government has moved to force a price cap on fuel suppliers.

In a press release dated 25th June 2009, the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Board (TC Enerji Piyasası Düzenleme Kurumu - EPDK) announced that they are capping the profit that fuel suppliers can make on petroleum products.  This should work in the motorist's favour. 

There have been criticisms in the past of fuel suppliers not passing on savings when oil prices come down, which is why the government has acted.

The EPDK website is in Turkish: click here There are English pages, but when we looked, this latest press release was not available in English.

You can also see details in this Today Zaman news item: click here 

The current price of fuel, per litre, in Kalkan, and also 6 months ago, is shown below:

• Petrol unleaded 95 - 3.02TL (as at 01/01/09 - 2.92TL)
• Diesel 50 - 2.46TL - (as at 01/01/09 - 2.53TL)
• Otogaz (LPG) - 1.67TL - (as at 01/01/09 - 1.75TL)