Prescription of Penalty
ARTICLE 68 – (1) Punishments shall not be executed after completion of periods stated below:
a) Forty years for aggravated life imprisonment sentences.
b) Thirty years for life imprisonment sentences.
c) Twenty four years for imprisonment sentences of twenty years or longer.
d) Twenty years for imprisonment sentences of five years.
e) Ten years for imprisonment sentences up to five years and administrative fines.
(2) If half of said periods for an actor of the crime who was over 12 years old but not over fifteen years old and two-thirds of the said periods for an actor who was over fifteen years but not over eighteen years in date of commitment have passed punishment shall not be executed.
(3) Prescription shall not be applied on aggravated life imprisonment sentences, or life imprisonment sentences, or imprisonment sentences for more than ten years which have been awarded in virtue of crimes committed in abroad regulated under Forth Section of Second Book of this Code.
(4) Provisions which their type requires different penalties shall not be executed by the extension of time envisaged for the gravest penalty.
(5) Penal prescription period commence to run from the date of final judgment or from the cessation date of execution for any reason and penalty period remain shall be taken into consideration in calculating the period.
Prescription of Penalty and Deprivation of Rights
ARTICLE 69 – (1) Period of deprivation of rights relating to the penalty or stated in judgment shall continue until the expiration of prescription of penalty.
Prescription in Confiscation
ARTICLE 70 – (1) Judgment of confiscation shall not be executed after completion twenty years as of the date of final judgment.
Cessation of Prescription of Penalty
ARTICLE 71 – (1) Prescription of penalty shall be interrupted upon notification made to convicted person by the legal authority for the execution of the convinction judgment or arrestation effected for this purpose.
(2) If a person who has been sentenced as a result of a crime will commit an intentional crime which its maximum period of imprisonment penalty is more than two years prescription of penalty shall be interrupted.
(2) Bir suçtan dolayı mahkûm olan kimse üst sınırı iki yıldan fazla hapis cezasını gerektiren kasıtlı bir suç işlediği takdirde, ceza zamanaşımı kesilir.