Would not surprise me if the driver was a spy for the Turkish government, considering now Turkey sadly is going the way of Iran and Saudi Arabia, becomeing more like another Islamofacist nation.
I am sure that was exactly what the driver was. The Turkish government still has some of the old line (secularists) but the new group in power is very Islamist and has been purging the secularists. Somebody elsewhere posted that this was because the population of Islamist, rural eastern Turkey has outpaced the urban (more secularist) population in growth, and they have been able to vote in a much more Islamist government.