Türkiye has updated the administrative fines and enforcement rules governing shared electric-scooter operations. The amendment to the Electric Scooter Regulation was published in the Official Gazette dated October 13, 2026, issue No. 33399, and entered into force on the same day. It fully rewrites Article 22 of the 2021 regulation, which sets out penalties for non-compliance.
The revised rules directly concern individuals and companies operating shared e-scooter services. Depending on the breached obligation, administrative fines range from TRY 8,687 to TRY 170,000. Operators that fail to provide information or documents requested by authorized inspectors may also face a TRY 50,000 penalty.
New penalty amounts
A fine of TRY 86,900 applies to violations of the third paragraph of Article 6. The same amount is prescribed for breaches of the first paragraph of Article 10 or the fourteenth paragraph of Article 16.
Several other operational and service obligations listed in the regulation carry a TRY 8,687 fine. A breach of the twelfth paragraph of Article 16 is subject to a TRY 43,447 penalty. Because the official text defines the violations by article and paragraph numbers, operators need to compare the amended regulation directly with their permit, fleet-management and service procedures.
Repeated violations can halt operations
The amendment creates a graduated penalty structure for non-compliance with the eleventh paragraph of Article 16. A first violation carries a TRY 8,687 fine, a second violation TRY 86,900, and a third violation TRY 170,000. If an operator receives the third penalty, activities covered by its authorization certificate will also be temporarily suspended for six months.
This structure makes repeated non-compliance with the same operational obligation significantly more serious. The amendment provides no separate transition period, meaning the updated enforcement framework applies from October 13, 2026.
Each scooter and each offense can be penalized separately
If several violations occur together, a separate administrative penalty report will be issued for each offense. When violations involve multiple e-scooters, the regulation also allows fines to be imposed separately for every vehicle. For a large fleet, the total financial exposure from a single inspection could therefore increase according to both the number of affected scooters and the number of identified breaches.
The amendment permits penalty reports to be created electronically. The authority identified in the regulation will determine the procedures for electronic reports. For certain violations, the central administration will prepare the report directly; for others, the officials listed in the regulation’s inspection provisions remain authorized.
Not a blanket set of new rider fines
The change is primarily focused on the permits, fleet limits, documentation and operating duties of shared e-scooter service providers. It would be misleading to describe every announced amount as a new traffic fine imposed directly on individual riders. The target of each sanction depends on the specific article violated and on the relevant provisions of the Road Traffic Law and the governing decree.
The regulation will be jointly implemented by the ministers of Transport and Infrastructure, Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, and Interior. For operators, the immediate priority is to review field operations, authorization records and inspection documents against the newly rewritten Article 22.
The new framework does not change every substantive rule for using an e-scooter. Instead, it strengthens the consequences attached to rules already referenced throughout the regulation and clarifies how penalties will be documented. Companies should therefore treat the Official Gazette text as the controlling source and avoid relying only on summaries when determining compliance obligations.
