Tolls - probably the only road of interest will be from the Bulgarian border to Ankara and even then probably only part of it. The bridges at Istanbul are tolls as well

You can sign up for the toll system at the first toll gates (office on the side) or at a post office or some Shell petrol stations, or you can just blast straight through and keep going because you get 7 days to pay any tolls and join the system. If you don't do the right thing and want to sign up for the toll system in the future, the fine will be ten times the toll for the total length of that tollway regardless of the distance you traveled. No toll booths are manned and they are all prepaid and non-contact drive through. I accidentally got onto the toll road twice and didn't know about the 7 day grace period, but I didn't need to use any tollroads anyway so I'm a marked man if I ever go back and want to use the toll roads.

The tolls are pretty cheap so for a bike I imagine the minimum load on the prepaid card would get him all the way in both directions.

Fuel - if you stand on the side of the road and look in both directions and can see more than 4 fuel stations it means you are on a main road. Only one fuel station and you are on a back road. See none at all and you are likely way off any road. Turkey has more fuel stations per mile of road than any other country i've driven in. I suspect all of the fuel comes from the same place and unlike say south America, I didn't hear any warnings to avoid any particular brand.

We wild camped all over Turkey, but during high season there will be lots of campsites open so that would be an easy option. We did come across bikers who were tenting it too and we considered it a very safe country to do that in. Way east near the Syrian and iraqi borders we did have the Jandarma (security police) suggest we were camping in a dangerous place and would we mind if they escorted us to somewhere safer - but that was because of a flareup involving the PKK rather than ISIL.

__________________
Tony
Click here for Travel Photos & Travel Map