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Article 6
 

Election period, the beginning of election and the Voting Day:


(amended on 25/4/2018 in accordance with article 8 of Law 7140) The elections of Turkish Grand National Assembly are held every five years at the same day with the election of the presidency
(Amended 22/10/2009 – 5922/1)


(Amended 22/10/2009 – 5922/2) the voting is done in the last Sunday before period of five years after the date of previous election is completed. The sixty day calculated before the voting day is starting day of the election.


If it is decided that holding the new elections is impossible due to warfare, Turkish Grand National Assembly may take a resolution to postpone the election for a year.


Unless the reason of postponement disappeared, this procedure may be repeated according to the process in the resolution of postponement.