EAIElectoral Access Index

Law 2839 Article 17 reinforces YSK independence: members of YSK, provincial election boards, and district board chairs can only resign upon filing as candidates — guaranteeing tenure security. Combined with Anayasa Article 79 (YSK has supreme authority over elections, decisions are final and not subject to appeal) and Law 298 Articles 11-12 (YSK composed of 7 members elected by Yargıtay and Danıştay general assemblies) — independence is constitutionally and statutorily codified.

Anayasa Article 67 sets the constitutional voting age (18) and the right to vote/be elected/participate in referendums. Reinforced by Law 298 Article 6 and Law 2839 Article 10 (both restate the 18-year-old age). Constitutional framing with statutory specificity.

“Onsekiz yaşını dolduran her Türk vatandaşı seçme ve”

The strongest candidate available via FTS is Law 298 Article 145 (criminal penalty for hindering voter registration). The full constitutional disqualification framework (Anayasa Article 67 paragraph 5: military conscripts, cadets, and convicts excepting negligent-crime convicts cannot vote; Law 298 Article 8 enumerating who cannot be registered) was not surfaced by FTS for this datapoint but does exist. Scoring 2 (statute + statutory restoration via Law 298 Article 33's annual rebuild based on civil registry which automatically restores rights when restriction ends) rather than 3 because the constitutional framing was not in the FTS candidates.

Law 298 Article 33 codifies that the voter register is automatically rebuilt annually based on the address-registry system, with notations for judicial decisions on restriction/restoration of suffrage rights ('seçme ehliyetini kaybetme (kısıtlanma, kamu hizmetinden yasaklanma) veya yeniden kazanma gibi yargı kararlarına'). Restoration is automatic once the underlying judicial restriction ends — codified, but no explicit deadline or cure procedure.

Law 298 Article 87 codifies the ID requirement in statute: 'voter identity is determined by the nüfus hüviyet cüzdanı or other official documents prepared for identification purposes that bear the Turkish Republic ID number.' Reinforced by Article 91 (ID presented to ballot-box committee chair before voting).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 298 Article 87 only requires 'official documents bearing the TC ID number' but expressly delegates to YSK the determination of which official documents are accepted ('Hangi resmi belgelerin kimlik belirlenmesinde kabul edileceği, Yüksek Seçim Kurulunca seçimlerin başlangıcında tespit ve ilan edilir'). Not exhaustively enumerated in statute — administrator discretion preserved.

No candidate sections returned by FTS.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: No candidate codifies an at-polls cure procedure for missing ID — Turkish elections require ID presentation before voting, with no provisional/affidavit alternative. The cited articles (Madde 94/C, 94/E, 97, 16, etc.) cover overseas voting and reconciliation, not at-polls cure.

Law 298 Article 127 codifies the rejection-appeal procedure: rejected challenges to ballot-box committee acts (including ID rejections) can be IMMEDIATELY appealed to the district election board chair, who must decide promptly. Reinforced by Article 119 (challenge to district-board acts), Article 129 (challenge to district-board decisions), Articles 165-166 (criminal sanctions and fines for bad-faith refusal to record challenges).

No candidate sections returned by FTS.

Law 298 Article 33 enumerates the (single) registration method in statute: address-registry-system-based automatic registration. Voters never apply — they are automatically included if registered in the civil-registry residence system. The exhaustive method is codified.

Law 298 Article 39 codifies the correction-and-completion procedure for voter register errors via 'Muhtarlık Bölgesi Askı Listesi' (muhtarlık-area suspension list) posted each March for public inspection — voters may file corrections during the posting period.

Law 298 Article 122 codifies the right to challenge voter-list entries: party district officials, party HQ officials, AND individual voters with proper standing may file challenges and objections to district election boards (for local voters), to YSK (for HQ officials/entire register), and personal challenges to district boards.

Law 298 Article 33 codifies maintenance criteria in statute: annual reconstruction with notations for changes in name, age, gender, loss of suffrage capacity (kısıtlanma, kamu hizmetinden yasaklanma), restoration, denationalization, renaturalization, death, and address changes within and outside the district. Statute level (not constitutional framing).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: No candidate codifies a pre-purge notice-and-cure procedure. Turkish voter-register maintenance is automatic via civil-registry sync — voters aren't notified before removal because removal is mechanically tied to civil-registry events (death, address change, judicial restriction).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: No candidate codifies encryption, breach-notification, or access-log requirements specifically for the voter registry. General data-protection law (KVKK 6698) applies but is not in the election-law corpus.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 2820 Article 81 explicitly PROHIBITS parties from claiming linguistic minorities exist or from protecting/developing/spreading languages other than Turkish. Combined with Anayasa Article 3 (Turkish is the sole official language), no language-assistance framework exists for voters.

Law 298 Article 93 codifies assistance: blind, paralyzed, or those with clearly-visible physical disabilities may vote with assistance from a relative who is also a voter in that precinct, or any other voter if no relative is present. The assistant may not accompany more than one disabled voter.

No candidate sections returned by FTS.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Polling-place opening/closing hours for domestic elections are not codified in the surfaced statutes. YSK announces hours per election (typically 08:00–17:00 for general elections) by general decision. The candidates cover overseas voting time-windows (Madde 94/E/C, 45 days before through election day) but not statutory domestic hours.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Turkey does not permit mail-in voting. The candidates (Madde 94/B sealed-overseas-ballot transmission, Madde 55/B internet campaign propaganda, Madde 52 broadcast campaigning) do not constitute a mail-ballot procedure.

Law 298 Article 20/A codifies the Overseas District Election Board (Yurt Dışı İlçe Seçim Kurulu) with detailed responsibilities for overseas voter administration: register, ballot-box committees, overseas ballot dispatch, challenges, voter-list correction, military and convict-status updates, sealed ballot-bag count, etc. Reinforced by Madde 94/A (sandık/border/electronic methods), Madde 94/B (YSK-sealed overseas ballots), Madde 94/C (overseas voter register).

No candidate sections returned by FTS.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Turkey does not use ballot drop-boxes. Law 298 Article 14 enumerates YSK powers over ballot-envelope procurement but does not codify drop-box procedures because no drop boxes exist.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Turkey does not codify a provisional-ballot right. Voter must present valid ID at the polls to vote — no cast-and-adjudicate-later mechanism. The candidates (Madde 97 ballot reconciliation, Madde 108 district counting, etc.) do not establish a provisional-ballot framework.