Last verified: 2 August 2026 The short answer. Since 27 February 2026 the notice goes to the renter, not the rental firm — but you still cannot settle it yourself, so the firm pays it and bills your card with its own fee attached. Cizgi adds a flat 300 TL per fine — the only structure here that leaves you below the headline figure on a large fine. Oscar adds 25% of the base fine, which almost exactly cancels the state's 25% early-payment discount: you pay roughly the full base fine. Garenta adds 30% (plus 12% on HGS tolls), so you pay more than the base fine — a 5,000 TL red light costs you 5,250 TL. The 25% discount runs one month from notification, and whether it reaches you depends on how fast your firm pays. If you hired a car in Ölüdeniz and a fine has landed — or you're worried one might — here is the plain answer. Since 27 February 2026, a new law (No. 7574, amending Highway Traffic Law No. 2918) means the penalty for an offence committed in a hire car is now normally issued to you, the renter, not the rental company, once police confirm through KABİS (Kiralık Araç Bildirim Sistemi, the rental notification system) that the car was on hire that day. In practice, you almost certainly cannot rely on paying it yourself through a Turkish government payment channel — those channels are built around Turkish citizens and Turkish-registered companies, not tourists. What actually happens is that the rental firm settles the fine and then charges your card, adding its own handling fee on top. Below is that combined figure — the fine plus the firm's fee — worked through for the most common offences, and an explanation of why the portal advice you'll find on forums does not apply to a Turkish-plated hire car. Before 27 February 2026, a speed camera that caught a hire car's plate produced a penalty notice addressed to the registered owner — the rental company — under Article 116 of the Highway Traffic Law (KTK, Law No. 2918). The company then had internal terms to pass the cost to whoever had the car booked. Law No. 7574, passed by parliament on 12 February 2026 and published in the Resmî Gazete on 27 February 2026, changes that starting point: where KABİS confirms the vehicle was under an active rental contract on the date of the offence, the notice is directed to the renter instead. The law took effect on publication. What no official source spells out is the mechanics for a foreign tourist with no Turkish address and no T.C. Kimlik number — there is simply no published procedure for serving a notice on someone who isn't reachable inside the Turkish administrative system. In practice, that gap is filled by the rental contract you signed: the company remains the party that actually clears the debt with the traffic authority and then recharges your card or deposit. If a fine reaches you, ask the firm for a copy of the penalty record (ceza tutanağı) and the date of the offence, so you can at least check it falls inside your rental period. Where a notice is served on the rental company rather than the renter, it goes through e-Tebligat, the electronic notification system, and is legally deemed served at the end of the fifth day after it lands in the company's electronic inbox. That five-day clock is what starts the countdown to the 25% early-payment discount described below. Either way, the contractual route to your money is the same one you signed at the pick-up desk: a clause allowing the firm to charge fines, tolls and associated fees to the card on file, sometimes weeks or months after you've flown home from Dalaman. This is standard across Turkish rental agreements and is exactly why a charge can appear with no warning — the underlying offence, the notice, and the firm's own payment cycle can each take weeks. For the full rundown of what else can legitimately hit your card under a Turkish rental contract, see our rental insurance and scam-avoidance guide. This table sets out the 2026 base fine, the discounted price if it's paid promptly, and what each named rental firm's published fee structure adds — calculated, as documented, on the base fine rather than the discounted amount actually paid. Offence (2026 rate) — Base fine — Paid within 1 month (25% off) — + Cizgi Rent a Car (flat 300 TL) — + Garenta (30% of base fine) — + Oscar Rent a Car (25% of base fine) Speeding, 10–30% over limit — 2,719 TL — 2,039 TL — 2,339 TL — 2,855 TL — 2,719 TL Speeding, 30–50% over limit — 5,662 TL — 4,247 TL — 4,547 TL — 5,945 TL — 5,662 TL Speeding, more than 50% over — 11,631 TL — 8,723 TL — 9,023 TL — 12,213 TL — 11,631 TL Running a red light — 5,000 TL — 3,750 TL — 4,050 TL — 5,250 TL — 5,000 TL Illegal or incorrect parking — 1,246 TL — 935 TL — 1,235 TL — 1,308 TL — 1,246 TL Driving the wrong way — 25,000 TL — 18,750 TL — 19,050 TL — 26,250 TL — 25,000 TL The pattern is worth reading carefully, because it isn't intuitive. At Oscar's 25% fee (calculated on the base fine), the fee is almost exactly the same size as the 25% discount the state gives for early payment — so the two cancel out and you end up paying close to the full, undiscounted base fine. At Garenta's 30%, the fee is larger than the discount, so you end up paying more than the base fine — the government's early-payment saving never reaches you at all; the firm keeps it and adds its own margin besides. Cizgi's flat 300 TL is the only structure here where you land below the headline base figure once the discount is banked. This is the documented basis for how these three firms describe their fees, not a guarantee — a firm could in principle calculate its percentage on the discounted amount instead, which would produce lower totals than shown here. Two firms sit outside this table on other terms. Garenta also charges 12% on HGS toll usage specifically (separate from its 30% fine fee — see the tolls section below). Avis Türkiye and Budget Türkiye use a variable model: the discounted fine plus a fixed service fee, but neither publishes the fixed amount, so it cannot be calculated here. The Fethiye-based local operators — Babadan, Yelken, Marin, TinyAkropol, Circular and Apple — do not publish a fine-handling fee at all. Ask for the figure in writing before you sign. For the full catalogue of Turkish fine categories beyond these six, see our rental insurance and scam-avoidance guide. No — not on a Turkish-plated hire car, and the portal everyone recommends is the wrong one. The advice that circulates on expat forums — "just pay it on the GİB portal" — does not apply to your situation, and it's worth explaining why clearly. The dijital.gib.gov.tr "Yabancı Plakalı Araç Ödemeleri" (Foreign-Plated Vehicle Payments) portal is ring-fenced for exactly what its name says: vehicles carrying foreign number plates, typically someone who drove their own car across the border into Türkiye. A car hired from a desk at Dalaman carries a Turkish plate, so this portal simply does not recognise it, regardless of your own nationality. The deeper reason is structural: Turkish-plated vehicles are linked in the tax system to the registered owner's T.C. Kimlik number (for an individual) or VKN, the corporate tax number (for a company — in this case, the rental firm). A tourist holds neither, so GİB İnteraktif and e-Devlet will ask for credentials a visitor doesn't have. That said, it is occasionally reported that a PTT counter or a bank branch will accept a payment against a Turkish-plated fine if you present the penalty record number and the vehicle's plate — but this is not documented as a reliable or guaranteed route, and it is not something to plan around. The rental company, holding the VKN the system recognises, remains the party you should expect to actually settle the debt. Discount window: 25% off if paid within one month of notification — extended from the previous 15-day window by an amendment published on 31 January 2024. The month runs from notification, not from the offence; where the notice reaches the rental company via e-Tebligat, the clock starts on the fifth day after delivery. Interest: 5% per month under KTK Article 115, with any part-month counted as a full month. Ceiling: disputed — the prevailing reading caps the interest at twice the fine (a three-times total), while other readings cap the total debt itself. Miss the window and the fine reverts to its full amount, then starts accruing that interest. For a renter the ceiling dispute is largely academic, because the rental company normally settles long before any ceiling would bite. The practical point is simpler: a well-organised firm pays fast and avoids interest altogether; a slow one lets the window close and adds accruing interest to whatever it then bills you. The governing text is Highway Traffic Law No. 2918, as amended by Law No. 7574 in the Resmî Gazete of 27 February 2026. Turkish motorway and bridge tolls run on HGS, a separate system with its own escalation, unconnected to KTK penalty fines: Days since the toll passage — What's actually owed Days 1–15 — Base toll only — no penalty Days 16–45 — Base toll + 1× the toll amount (you pay double) After day 45 — Base toll + 4× the toll amount (five times the original toll in total) The HGS sticker on a hire car is registered to the rental company's own corporate account, not yours. If the firm lets that account's balance run dry, the multiplier above is generated automatically on their side — and it's routinely passed straight to the renter's card, often appearing only as a vague "HGS usage fee" line with no breakdown. Garenta specifically charges 12% on top of HGS toll usage. If you're driving in from Dalaman and crossing any tolled sections en route, our Dalaman Airport pickup and HGS tolls guide covers what to check with the desk before you leave the lot. An illegally parked hire car in the Fethiye area that gets towed is taken to Ecesu Oto Kurtarma – Oto Park ve İcra Deposu, on the D400 bypass in the Çamköy neighbourhood. Muğla is classified as a "2nd Region" zone under the 2026 official trustee (yediemin) tariff, which sets: Component — 2026 Muğla (2nd Region) rate Recovery / hook-up base fee — 735 TL Per kilometre towed — 73.40–98 TL per km Storage — 110.10 TL per day These release costs are paid in cash directly at the pound to get your car back — they are separate from, and additional to, the underlying illegal-parking fine (1,246 TL, or 935 TL at the 25% discount), which still reaches you later through the rental company by the route described above. For everyday parking that doesn't end in a tow, see our parking and fuel guide. Enforcement in the area is concentrated on two stretches of road. The D400 through Fethiye steps down in stages — from 110 km/h out on the open road to 70, then 50 km/h through the built-up section around the Çamköy and Günlükbaşı junctions — and is monitored by fixed EDS (Electronic Supervision System) cameras. Exact camera positions aren't published anywhere reliable, so treat the whole urban stretch as monitored rather than trying to spot the equipment. The mountain road linking Fethiye to Ölüdeniz via Ovacık and Hisarönü carries a 50 km/h limit for good reason: steep gradients, tight switchbacks and heavy pedestrian traffic in season. Enforcement there in high season combines fixed radar with mobile Jandarma checkpoints. A new bypass road toward Kıdrak, intended to ease the Kumburnu bottleneck, began construction in April 2026 with a target completion of June 2026 — check locally whether it's open to traffic before relying on it as a shortcut. Road segment — Speed limit — Enforcement D400, open road outside Fethiye — 110 km/h — Fixed EDS cameras along the corridor D400 approaching Fethiye — 70 km/h — Step-down zone before the built-up section D400 through Çamköy and Günlükbaşı — 50 km/h — Built-up section, fixed EDS Fethiye – Ölüdeniz via Ovacık and Hisarönü — 50 km/h — Fixed radar plus mobile Jandarma checkpoints in season Yes, but the practical route is narrow for a tourist. You have 15 days from the date of notification to file an objection with the Sulh Ceza Hâkimliği (Criminal Court of Peace) covering the location of the offence. There's no filing fee, though court costs can follow if the objection is rejected. Filing online through UYAP or e-Devlet requires a Turkish qualified electronic signature or a registered mobile signature — neither of which a visiting tourist holds — so in practice your realistic options are filing in person before you leave the country, or granting power of attorney to a Turkish lawyer, which usually costs more than the fine itself. One point worth knowing before you decide: paying at the 25% discounted rate does not waive your right to appeal — if the appeal later succeeds, the money is refunded. Do I have to pay a traffic fine from my Ölüdeniz rental car myself? No. Since the 27 February 2026 change (Law No. 7574), the notice may be addressed to you as the renter once KABİS confirms the rental, but the actual government payment channels are not built for foreign tourists — no source describes a reliable procedure for a renter with no Turkish ID to settle it directly. In practice the rental company pays it and recharges your card. Can I use the GİB "Yabancı Plakalı Araç" portal to pay it myself? No. That portal is for vehicles on foreign number plates. A car hired at Dalaman carries a Turkish plate, so the portal doesn't recognise it, and the underlying tax-system link (T.C. Kimlik / VKN) doesn't match a tourist anyway. How much extra will the rental company charge on top of the fine? It depends entirely on the firm. Cizgi Rent a Car charges a flat 300 TL per fine. Garenta charges 30% of the base fine (plus 12% on HGS toll usage separately). Oscar Rent a Car charges 25% of the base fine — which, worked through the numbers, roughly cancels the government's 25% early-payment discount. Avis Türkiye and Budget Türkiye use the discounted fine plus an unpublished fixed service fee. Local Fethiye firms don't publish a figure at all — ask before you sign. Will I still get the benefit of the 25% early-payment discount? It depends on the firm, and the two documented practices point in different directions. Some rental companies pay within the one-month window, bank the 25% saving, and bill the renter only the discounted amount. Others are reported to keep the saving for themselves and bill the renter the full, undiscounted fine regardless of when they paid. There's no way to tell in advance which practice applies to your booking, so it's worth asking directly. Can I be stopped from leaving Türkiye over an unpaid fine? No exit ban applies to a tourist leaving on a Turkish-plated hire car with an unpaid fine — that strict rule is for foreign-plated vehicles. Turkish legal sources do indicate an unpaid fine can potentially be collected on your next entry to the country, though sources aren't unanimous on this, so treat it as a real but not certain risk worth clearing rather than something to panic about. Is it worth appealing a fine? Only if you're confident the offence is wrong and you're willing to either file in person at the Sulh Ceza Hâkimliği before leaving Türkiye, or pay a Turkish lawyer with power of attorney — which usually costs more than the fine. Paying the discounted amount first doesn't forfeit that right; a successful appeal gets the money refunded. Are HGS toll charges handled the same way as fines? No. HGS escalates on its own schedule: no penalty for the first 15 days, double the toll from day 16–45, and after day 45, the base toll plus four times the toll — five times the original amount in total. It's tied to the rental firm's own HGS account balance, not a KABİS-linked penalty notice, and is often billed to renters simply as an "HGS usage fee."