28. Are there provisions for direct public funding to political parties?

Turkey

Turkey

Answer
Yes, regularly
Source

Source: Article 68§last, The Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, 1982 (as amended in 1995).

Source: Article 61, Law on Political Parties, 1983 (as amended in 1984, Law No. 2820).

Source: Annex Article 1, Law on Political Parties, 1983 (amended in 2014, Law No. 2820).

Comment

The State provides sufficient and fair financial assistance to political parties. The principles governing the aid to the parties, the membership fees and donations they receive are regulated by law.  

Source: Article 68§last, The Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, 1982 (as amended in 1995).

[...] Political parties may generate the following revenues: [...]

Aids provided by the state. [...]
Source: Article 61§j, Law on Political Parties, 1983 (as amended in 1984, Law No. 2820).

Political parties who have been granted the right to run in the last parliamentary elections by the Supreme Board of Elections and who have exceeded the general threshold specified in article 33 of the Parliamentary Elections Law 2839 shall be allocated, for that financial year, a sum corresponding to two five-thousandths of the total sum in the ‘(B) Budget Sheet’ of the general budget revenues of that year, to be paid by the Treasury each year.

Source: Annex Article 1, Law on Political Parties, 1983 (as amended in 1992, Law No. 2820).

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