Objection against decisions delivered upon complaints of Provincial Election Boards and their presidents and on district consolidation minutes:

(Change: 17/5/1979 - 2234/1 art.)

Objections are raised against the decisions of Provincial Election Boards as defined below:

1. Within three days of notification against the decisions of Provincial Election Boards and their presidents on complaints about their transactions, 


2. Within three days against the establishment of such boards beginning with establishment of such boards,


3. Immediately against decisions related with transactions of election day,


4. Against miscellaneous decisions, within three days after  learning of such decisions at latest until 17.00 in the third following arrangement of provincial combination minute book,


5. At latest until 17.00 in the third following arrangement of provincial combination minute book, about counting, itemization and separation of votes due to elected ones,


6. Against claims on eligibility of being elected, or those who were delivered minute books were not elected or against events that may affect the results of elections, until 17.00 of the third day following arrangement of minute book that will be delivered to elected ones,

Those individuals who are defined in article 110 may raise their objections before Supreme Election Councils either directly or via Provincial Election Boards.

Objections related with the decisions that may have affected the results of elections raised by provincial heads of political parties and their headquarters and independent candidates within seven (7) days following the arrangement of minute book, in case they are considered effective as the boards which have the authority to deliver final decisions on objections; the facts that delivered decisions of boards have been finalized and the applications have not been exercised on determined time of have not followed appropriate sequence, do not compose a reason for evaluation or refusal of such complaint. 

These complaints are exercised in written form. The complaint petition must include the name, surname and open address of the complainants, declaration of content and reasons of the cases subject to complaint, presenting of the evidences and providing of necessary documents and in case such documents are impossible to purchase, the information on how and from where these documents can be obtained. 

But after the finalization of candidacy, objections can not be raised against candidates other than the reasons that the candidate is not a Turkish citizen, his age is under the limit described in law, he is not literate or he has a conviction that hinders eligibility of being elected. This provision is also valid for extraordinary objections.   Petitions which do not meet these conditions are refused.