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Article 134
 

(Amended by Article 288 of Law 57228 on 23 January 2008)


During the elections, people who do not obey the decisions and measures taken by a board or by the chairman of a board written in this law, despite warnings, shall be fined with an administrative fine of two hundred Turkish Liras in order to ensure a fair and decent conduct for the elections.


Those who hinder the implementation of such decisions and measures in any manner or cause such decisions and measures to be ineffective shall be sentenced to imprisonment up to six months.


If the offences stated above are committed by people assigned in the elections and they do not constitute a serious crime with a heavy penalty, the sentences passed according to paragraphs one and two shall be increased by half the above-mentioned sentences.