This is a photo I took this morning from my balcony. I wanted to capture the scene because it was a perfect example of something I noticed soon after arriving in Turkey— most cars here are white. I have no idea why.
In the above photo, there are 37 motor vehicles. It’s a little bit difficult to see details with my crappy cameraphone, so to clarify I’ve put dots on the vehicles that are not white. The dots number 12 in total, and the remaining 25 vehicles are white.
This means that according to my survey, 68% of cars in Turkey are white. That’s more than two-thirds. It seems a bit excessive to me. And I have no clue what the big deal about white is. Perhaps one of you knows and can fill me in.
Incidentally, of the 12 non-white cars, 7 were silver (which is the white of metallic colours), two were black, two were green, and one car was burgundy. There were also two cars out of frame, further down the street near point A. Both were white.
This has been a public service announcement.