The Price of Utilites and Transport - 2010
Following our previous article comparing the price of a basket of groceries between the Turkey and the UK, and also between 2009 and 2010, let's take a look at some other comparisons.
First, a note to say that prices gathered are estimates only based on available information - either from experience, or information gathered from trusted internet sources. Where possible we have tried to use "typical" examples - of course, your experience will differ. UK prices have been converted at 2.3 TL to the Pound.
Read on for the full article - but overall, in this example, Turkey was an average of 12% cheaper than the UK across the examples given.
| Description | Price in Turkey (TL) | Price in UK (£) | Price in UK (TL) |
| Annual Property Tax 1 | 200.00 TL | £1,400.00 | 3,220.00 TL |
| House insurance 2 | 450.00 TL | £200.00 | 460.00 TL |
| Car Insurance 3 | 1,000.00 TL | £550.00 | 1,265.00 TL |
| Petrol (per litre) | 3.76 TL | £1.15 | 2.65 TL |
| Diesel (per litre) | 3.10 TL | £1.16 | 2.67 TL |
| MOT (per year) 4 | 65.00 TL | £54.00 | 124.20 TL |
| Car Tax (1yr) 5 | 486.00 TL | £120.00 | 276.00 TL |
| Bus Fare 6 | 52.00 TL | £35.30 | 81.19 TL |
| Electricity (per kWhr) 7 | 0.27 TL | £0.14 | 0.32 TL |
| Water (per m3) 8 | 3.00 TL | £1.60 | 3.68 TL |
| Gas (13kg bottle delivered) 9 | 50.00 TL | £27.49 | 63.23 TL |
| Phone (monthly) | 15.00 TL | £11.55 | 26.57 TL |
| ADSL 10 | 49.00 TL | £15.99 | 36.78 TL |
| Satelilte TV (per month) 11 | 24.00 TL | £18.00 | 41.40 TL |
Notes:
1 TR: Based on a standard 0.1% tax rate on a propety worth 200,000TL
EN: UK national average council tax rate
2 TR: DASK+buildings+Contents
EN: buildings and contents
3 2L Diesel, 5 years old Fully Comp.
4 TR: 130TL every 2 years
5 1.6L Petrol Engined Saloon Car, 5 years old
6 TR: Adult Fare, Istanbul to Soke (570km, 10hrs)
EN: Adult Fare, London to Edinborough (535km, 9hrs)
7 TR: price includes all taxes and fees
EN: standard one-fuel tariff, based on the UK Average bill
8 EN: UK Water only, meter rate
9 EN: UK Price includes £5 delivery
10 TR: 8Mbps Limited
EN: upto 20Mbps, limited
11 Basic Pack
Did we miss anything? Let us know, and we will try to compare it in the next report.