Transports in Istanbul

Transports in Istanbul are very dıfferent from whatever I saw before.
First the otobüs'es. There are the public ones (red and blue) and the private ones (green). Many times the buses compete for clients and for space. In the important squares there are so many in so little room! You can see them doing the most incredible manouvers to go through the small space and start their journey. There are bus stops, but you can actually hop in and hop off wherever you want, just make the signal to the driver.
Then taxi's. They are everywhere! I think it must be really easy to be a taxi driver here because there are so many! When you walk by the road they are honking at you all the time to get you in their cab, but this is a generic thing for all transports, everyone honks for clients, even buses! Taxis are cheap here and people use them to go short ways when there is no other transport or they are in a big hurry!
Then dolmuş'es. They are yellow like the taxi's but not normal cars, they are vans that can take 8 people inside. They do pre-defined paths, they wait in the departure point until they have 8 clients and then they start they way. When it starts you tell the driver where you are going and pay the repective ammount which is well known depending on the area you go to. You can get out whenever you want, just tell the driver and he stops and opens the automatic door for you. You can also get in the dolmuş anywhere in between their path, but you must find a dolmuş that has an empty sit. He will never take more than 8 people inside. I think in the old days this rule didn't exist, because dolmuş means 'filled'!
Then minibus'es. They are my favourites! If you want to have some fun, hop in a dolmuş! These are usually the 'filled' ones'! I suggest the one that goes from Kadıköy to Pendik through the minibus caddesi! It's a trip filled with excitment, friendship and... people! Ok, here's how it works. A minibus has about 13 sitting places, the driver waits in the departure point until all the sits are occupied, then the journey starts! As in dolmuş'es when you get in you say where you're going and pay the driver, since a minibus is a crowded place you usually don' pay directly to the driver, you must pass the money and the destination to someone in front of you, who will pass to someone else until it gets to driver, then the change comes back through the same path. For a foreigner this can be really confusing because in the begining everyone is paying and there's money and destinations flowing all around the bus! Also you'll probably be part of this chain so you will be passing money and destination of someone else (in the begining I was just passing the money because I could never understand where they were going!). I think there' no limit on how many people a minibus can have, no matter how full the truck is the driver will allways stop to get another client! I really admire minibuses drivers, I think they have superpowers because they can do 5 things at the same time: They honk at everyone on the side walk and stop anywhere to let them in, they stop anywhere to let clients out, they receive the money and give change to new clients, they smoke cigarets and answer mobile phones anytime and finally they drive in Istanbul streets! And they drive like crazy! If there is still any rule that normal cars obbey in these roads, the minibuses will ignore all of them, they change lanes any time just to be faster or to get/drop clients on the side and they rarely stop on red signs.