‘6 Months’ Limit on Vehicle Sales Becomes Court

The new restrictions on the sale of second-hand vehicles, announced last week by the Minister of Commerce Mehmet Muş and published in the Official Gazette this week, drew the reaction of some names in the sector. The new decision preventing the sale of new vehicles before 6 months have passed or 6000 kilometers has been exceeded, He will be sued for unconstitutional.

The case in question Federation of Motor Vehicle Dealers (MASFED) will be opened by In his statement on the subject, the President of the Federation, Aydın Erkoç, claimed that 70 thousand motor vehicle dealers were ignored in the decision, the views of the sector were not taken, the decision would not affect the solution of existing problems and they would apply to the Council of State.

“Only 1 in 5 of the vehicles sold are sold by authorized dealers”

Erkoç stated that only one fifth of the vehicles sold in Turkey are sold by authorized dealers and shared that it is not clear how the new regulation will prevent unregistered employees. Erkoç’s “We all know the problems experienced and the reasons for the rise in prices.His explanation was as follows:

“There are serious problems in the industry. The previous day, Minister Nurettin Nebati announced that 100 thousand taxpayers, who disrupted the supply-demand balance and caused the informal economy, were caught on the radar. We, as tradesmen who pay taxes to the state with a certificate of authority and try to perform the profession properly within the institutional framework, are fighting this by reminding that people who have not been registered for years and who buy and sell vehicles under the stairs without paying taxes disrupt the market balance.”

“80% of sales are unregistered”

“With this new regulation, questions such as how these people can be prevented are also in front of us. In addition, motor vehicle dealers who do their job in an ethical framework trying to combat sector problems are being tried to be scapegoated. However, motor vehicle dealers, who can’t buy vehicles from dealers anyway, are completely outside of this issue. A total of 9 million vehicles are sold annually in Turkey, of which 750 thousand are new and 8 million 250 thousand are second-hand. Today, only one-fifth of new and second-hand vehicle sales across the country are made by dealers and authorized motor vehicle dealers. The remaining four-fifths are carried out by these people who work informally, have nothing to do with this business, and cause prices to rise.”