3. Is there a ban on corporate donations to political parties?

[...]Professional organizations that have the nature of public agencies, labour unions and employers’ associations and their umbrella organizations, associations, foundations and cooperatives may provide financial assistance  and make donations to political parties in compliance with the provisions of their special governing laws. [...]
Source: Article 66, Law on Political Parties, 1983 (amended 2018)

Buildings and facilities which belong to […] public interest associations provided for private income and private priviliges, and foundations with state funding and tax exemption, public professional organizations and unions of producers, union of cooperatives, banks and trade unions cannot be used for the campaign purposes.
Source: Article 51A(1), Law on Basic Provisions of Elections and Voter Registers, 1961 (amended 2018)

Persons employed as civil servant or officer or in the State administration, annexed budget administrations, special provincial administrations, municipalities and agencies and organizations affiliated thereto, state economic enterprises and the agencies and partnerships established by them, and in other public organisations, cannot distribute handouts.
Source: Article 62(2), Law on Basic Provisions of Elections and Voter Registers, 1961 (amended 2018). 

The Constitutional Court annulled the provision on aid provided by associations to the political parties as regulated in the Law No. 5253 on Associations (Article 61) in 2007. As the reason of the statement of the Court, it was emphasized that associations may give the aid they receive from foreign sources to political parties which contradicts with the Law on Political Parties (Article 66). There are no clear provisions on this matter in the Law No. 5737 on Foundations or the Law No. 1163 on Cooperatives.
Source: Prof. Dr. Ömer Faruk Gençkaya, Dr. Umut Gündüz, Damla Cihangir-Tetik, Political Finance and Transparency,İstanbul: Association of Transparency International, 2016.

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