Ineligibility:

Following persons are ineligible for the Parliamentary Elections:
a) Those who have not graduated from primary school,
b) Those legally incapacitated,
c) (amended on 13/3/2018 in accordance with article 23 of Law 7102) Those who have hindrances arising from military service,
d) Those who are prohibited from public services,
e) Those who are sentenced for committing a felony for a year or more, regardless of the duration of their sentence, excluding the crimes of imprudence.
f) The following people even though they are pardoned;
1. (15th Article of Law 4778, amended on 2 January 2003.) Those who are convicted for committing disgraceful crimes such as debits of any kind, malversation, bribery, theft, fraud, deception, misuse of the belief, bankruptcy including fraud, smuggling excluding the smuggling for personal purposes, creating treachery in official tenders and sales, or revealing the secrets of the State,
2. Those who are convicted for committing or obviously provoking others for crimes stated in the first chapter of the Second Book of the Turkish Penal Code.
3. (15th Article of Law 4778, amended on 2 January 2003.) Those who are convicted for terrorism,
4. Those who are convicted for committing the acts stated in the first, second and third paragraphs of the 536th article of the Turkish Penal Code, and those in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth paragraphs of 537th article of the same law, for political and ideological purposes.