Law 5560 rewrote Penal Code Article 191, retaining one to two years in prison for buying, accepting or possessing drugs for personal use, including cannabis. Before judgment, courts could order treatment and probation for users, or probation for people who possessed drugs for use without using them. Compliance required dismissal of the case; otherwise trial resumed. A separate route allowed qualifying convicted users to complete treatment and probation with their sentence deemed served. This revised an existing treatment framework rather than legalising possession.[1][2]
Score by segment 0 to 10
- Possession · 25%1 → 1
- Personal cultivation · 25%1 → 1
- Punishment & enforcement · 20%1 → 2+1
- Sharing & gifting · 10%1 → 1
- Consumption · 10%1 → 1
- Legal access · 10%0 → 0
The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. The scores after the change are Türkiye's current scores.
References
- Türkiye — Law 5560, original adopted text (TBMM)Articles 7 and 46; replacement Penal Code Article 191(1)–(7)archived
- Türkiye — Parliament's Law 5560 publication recordOfficial Gazette 26381, 19 December 2006archived
Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.