Voter Registers

Definitions: (Amended on 30/11/2017 in accordance with article 12 of Law 7062)

(1st Article of Law 2234, amended on 17 May 1979.)

A) –(Abolished on 30/11/2017 in accordance with article 12 of Law 7062)

B) Definitions:

1. According to this law, “Voter Register” is a computer medium that uniquely defines each citizen as voter and contains the residence information of each voter.

2. Voter Register is obtained through studies designed, planned, managed and implemented according to this Law, by Voter Register General Directorate established in association to the Supreme Board of Elections.

3. Each record related to a voter and used to identify that specific voter like the name, family name, date of birth, place of birth is called “data”.

4. The collective data uniquely identifying a voter is called the “Voter Information.”

5. The name of district, the «muhtarlık», the street on which the voter resides permanently, the number and -if exists- the number of apartment is the “Voter Address”.

6. Each voter is determined and identified with the Voter Register item number, name, family name, mother’s and father’s names, place and date of birth.

7. Changing, correcting and identifying the information in the Voter Registers according to this law is called the Voter Register “Update”.

8. (Annex: 3rd Article of Law 5749, on 13 March 2008) The body of information created based on the information registered in the address registry system of citizens who are voters as per this law and who live abroad is called the ‘Foreign Country Voter Registry’