Daily life of Turkish public will see both minor and fundamental changes this year as new laws and regulations changing everything from IDs to marriage procedures are set to be implemented by the end of 2016. For drivers and learner drivers, the year starts with a major change in driver licenses. All drivers will be obliged to change their existing licenses with the new ones, which will have the status of international driver license, hence, eliminating the need to apply for new licenses for driving abroad. More importantly, in a bid to curb traffic accident fatalities and reckless driving, the government will introduce a new regulation to grade licenses in January or in the coming months. Those who obtain new licenses this year will be “intern drivers” for two years and will be issued probationary licenses. Probationary licenses can be revoked if new drivers are fined above the limit of a new scoring system for inexperienced drivers and they will be mandated to attend driving schools again to obtain a new license. The new regulation states that prospective drivers with an IQ level of 79 or below (classified as mental retardation), dementia or those who have a chronic mental disease that alters their thoughts, feelings or behaviors will not be allowed behind the wheel. It also prohibits those with alcohol and drug addiction from obtaining driver licenses and the driver licenses of those who develop these addictions will be revoked. A change of conditions in having a driver license may help Turkey to decrease traffic accidents which claimed more than 3,200 lives in 2015. Reckless driving and drunk driving are among two main causes of the accidents. A set of new bills expected to be implemented this year also eases bureaucracy for Turkish public, from marriages to notification for moving to a new address. A new civil law likely to come into force in 2016, cuts off the red tape for rectifying typing errors in IDs which is a painstaking legal procedure involving lawsuits and a court order. Under the new law, citizens will be able to change their IDs by filing a petition to the registry office issuing IDs.