Turkey
**As of June 2011, there is a movement to implement a new constitution, but its success depends on the changing composition of the Parliament**
**As of June 2011, there is a movement to implement a new constitution, but its success depends on the changing composition of the Parliament**
General Right to
Vote
Constitution
(1982, as amended 2001)
- Article 67 states: "In conformity with the conditions set forth in the law, citizens have the right to vote, to be elected, and to engage in political activities independently or in a political party, and to take part in a referendum...All Turkish citizens over 18 years of age shall have the right to vote in elections and to take part in referenda...The exercise of these rights shall be regulated by law..."
Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1982, as amended 2001)
- Article 76 states: "Persons who have not completed their primary education, who have been deprived of legal capacity...shall not be elected deputies.”
Electoral Law
Parliamentary Elections Law
(1983, last amended 1995)
- Article 11 states, “The following shall be ineligible for candidature...b) Those placed under the care of a guardian.”
Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Law on Basic Provisions on Elections and Voter Registers
(1961, last amended 1999)
- Article 93 states, “Disabled voters, with apparent disability such as blindness, stroke, paralysis or similar physical defects may be accompanied by one of their relatives who are voters in the same election district or, in the absence of any relative, by any other voter to provide assistance in casting their votes. A voter cannot accompany to more than one disabled. The chairman of the ballot-box committee shall, while delivering the voter his/her identity card, have the voter sign the box adjacent to his/her name in the voter list and mark the left index finger of the voter with special permanent ink. Voters not able to sign may affix their finger print on the signature box in the list. Voters lacking the said index finger may imprint any other finger and the chairman shall write on the list to which finger the print belongs. The chairman shall mark the neck part of voters having no fingers.”
- Constitution - http://www.anayasa.gov.tr/images/loaded/pdf_dosyalari/THE_CONSTITUTION_OF_THE_REPUBLIC_OF_TURKEY.pdf
- Electoral Laws - http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/50/topic/6
