Sometimes its not easy to feel abnormalities in daily routine.

To avoid that mistake, hearing the main differences between Turkish Cities and Non-Turkish Ones from Turkish and Non-Turkish Friends´ points of view would be interesting and illuminating.

Here is the first one according to my experiences.

Traffic is a jam in Turkey but not in developed countries.

Jungle Rules are valid concerning the traffic in Turkish cities  The most killable vhicles has the most superiority. Unsurprisingly walkers´ superiority in traffic is as much as mouses in Jungles. But in developed countries cities, everybodies rights especially the walkers´ are protected by the law and most people obey the rules.

What about next? What cought your eyes according to these differences?

I think you can´t make this comparison, between "Turkish cities" and "Non-Turkish cities". Every city around the world has its own character. L.A. and New York are both Non-Turkish, both American cities. But, they are completely different from eachother.

And traffic jams... the biggest traffic jam I´ve ever seen in a city was in London. It was some years back. Since then there´s this system where you pay to drive in the city centre, but I don´t know if it helped much Although the traffic jams in Turkey do rank high in chaos, a traffic jam seems to be the curse of every city.

What I do notice in the whole of Turkey, not only in cities, is that people don´t really stop for people who want to cross the road by foot. In Holland I never have to stand long at the crossing. It´s the rule that a car has to stop for somebody who´s standing at the crossing (white big lines on the road, called "zebra-way"). In Turkey I can´t wait for somebody to stop for me, but I just have to launch myself on the road. It´s not a city thing, nobody seems to stop anywhere.

It has nothing to do with Turks. It is that old thing "West-East".