Bicyclists can go the opposite way on this street, but only if they are walking their bikes. Road hazards such as potholes are marked with anything handy and more often than not, remain unmarked. Railroad crossings are poorly marked and sometimes the wrong signs are posted. Motorized vehicles have priority over non-motorized vehicles such as horse drawn carts and push carts that you may see on the road. Please watch out for these.
Traffic lights look the same, but operate differently.
They turn from red to yellow to green and green to yellow to red . Often locals will run a red light if there is no traffic coming from a side street. Ensure all your brake lights are working so when you obey the red light and stop, your brake lights will be an indication to traffic coming up behind you and will lessen the risk that you will be rear-ended. You need to lock your doors at intersections in large cities due to people coming up to the vehicle to steal or to beg or to wash your vehicle's windows for money. Compounding these hazards to driving in Turkey is darkness.