Turkey

Electoral Law (1961, last amended 1999)

Updated: June 2015

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Article 2 states:

Elections are held based on the principles of free, equal and single stage public voting. Voters cast their votes in person.

 

Excerpt from the Electoral Law (1961, last amended 1999)

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Article 2 states:

Elections are held based on the principles of free, equal and single stage public voting. Voters cast their votes in person.

 

Article 8 states:

The following shall not be entitled to cast vote:

(1) Those place under the care of a guardian,

(2) Persons prohibited from public service.

 

Article 36 states:

…Any disability of a voter to prevent the voter from casting his/her vote shall be noted on the form during registration of voters.

 

Article 73 states:

…The missing members shall be appointed by the chairman amongst literate persons eligible for voting in that ballot-box zone.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Law (1961, last amended 1999)

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Article 93 states:

After folding and sticking the combined ballot papers in the voting booth, voters shall leave the booth and insert the combined ballot papers personally in the ballot-box. Disabled voters, with apparent disability such as blindness, stroke, paralysis or similar physical defects may be accompanied by one of their relatives who are voters in the same election district or, in the absence of any relative, by any other voter to provide assistance in casting their votes. A voter can not accompany to more than one disabled. The chairman of the ballot-box committee shall, while delivering the voter his/her identity card, have the voter sign the box adjacent to his/her name in the voter list and mark the left index finger of the voter with special permanent ink. Voters not able to sign may affix their finger print on the signature box in the list. Voters lacking the said index finger may imprint any other finger and the chairman shall write on the list to which finger the print belongs. The chairman shall mark the neck part of voters having no fingers.

 

Excerpt from the Electoral Law (1961, last amended 1999)

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Article 10 states:

Every Turkish citizen who has completed the age of thirty shall be eligible for candidature.

 

Article 11 states:

The following shall be ineligible for candidature:…

  • (a) Those who do not have a primary school graduation,
  • (b) Those placed under the care of a guardian, …
  • (d) Those who are banned from civil service…

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Law (1961, last amended 1999)