15. Is there a ban on state resources being given to or received by political parties or candidates (excluding regulated public funding)?
Turkey
65. [...]Within the period from beginning date of the propaganda to the following date of elections, prime minister, ministers and MP’s are not allowed to use their official vehicles with the purpose of electoral activities and visits within the framework of electoral visits inside the country. In their visits within the context of this purpose, welcoming and send-off ceremonies are not undertaken and official feasts are not arranged. [...]
Source: Article 65, Law on Basic Provisions of Elections and Voter Registers, 1961 (amended 2014)
Collective verbal propaganda is forbidden on public highways, in temples, in public service buildings and facilities…
Source: Article 50(1), Law on Basic Provisions of Elections and Voter Registers 1961 (amended 2018)
Indoor meetings cannot be held in temples, schools, military barracks, military headquarters, military units, buildings and facilities as well as in other places where public services are rendered.
Source: Article 51(8), Law on Basic Provisions of Elections and Voter Registers 1961 (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 51/A(1), Law on Basic Provisions of Elections and Voter Registers 1961 (amended 2018).
…no government officer shall be entitled to be made by the Prime Minister, Ministers and candidates for election propaganda tours.
Source: Article 66, Law on Basic Provisions of Elections and Voter Registers, 1961 (amended 2018)
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