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Article 154
 

Those who at against candidacy terms and those who are not allowed to make propaganda:


(Change : 23/1/2008-5728/301 art.)


Public servants and judges who announce their candidacies without following determined rules and principles or military officers who demand leaving military service for the purpose of being candidate but in a way make propaganda with official uniform even their demand of discharge has been accepted, are sentenced to administretive fine with condition not being less than one hundred days. 


In case judges or officials serving as judges, military personalities and the officials defined in second clause of Article 62 of this Law make propaganda in favor or against a political party or an independent candidate or make encouragement or suggestions  within the period beginning from the starting day of elections till the end of voting, they are sentenced to three months to one year unless their actions do not compose a crime that requires heavier punishment. 


Those, who do not obey the prohibitions defined in Article 63, are sentenced to six months to a year in prison.