Alıntı: MARRIAGE PROCEDURE IN TURKEY (Concerning foreign nationals): A Turkish and a foreign national or two foreign nationals of different countries can get married only by the authorized Turkish registrar for civil marriages in Turkey. If authorized by their own legislation, the official representatives of foreign countries in Turkey can act as a marriage registrars for their own citizens. The foreign nationals of the same country can get married in Turkey either in the offices of their own countries Embassy/Consulate or by the Turkish authorities. Foreign nationals can apply to the marriage registrars in Turkey and they are subject to the same rules and provisions of the Turkish Civil Code concerning the Turkish Citizens. In order to obtain the required marriage license, marriage registrars can directly correspond with the related consulates or they can obtain necessary documents trough the Turkish Ministry of Interior.

Alıntı: CONDITIONS AND CAPACITY FOR A VALID MARRIAGE : a) In order to marry, a person must arrive at years of discretion which is 18 in Turkey. (but the marriage age is 17, with the consent of the relatives) b) Only those who have sufficient mental capacity to make fair judgment are allowed to marry. c) Those who are related trough consanguinity at first degree are not allowed to marry. d) A married person can not apply for another marriage. A divorcee should produce the legal documents (ie: A Court Sentence about the termination of her/his previous marriage) in order to marry again. e) A women whose marriage was dissolved can not marry during the period which is indicated in the divorce decree. A divorce decree may also state a waiting period for the parties to marry again. f) A person can not apply if there a legal bar about her/his marriage. g) Certain venereal and contagious diseases constitute a bar to marriage in Turkey. REQUIRED DOCUMENTS TO APPLY : 1- Four copies of "Marriage Petition" signed by both persons who plan to marry. 2- The birth certificate or passport for foreign nationals or a document as birth certificate issued and approved by local authorities or by related consulates. 3- A health report. (If demanded by one of the parties). 4- Six passport size photographs of the persons who plan to marry. 5- A document proving the civil status of the parties who wish to marry

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To Jean : The house you have bought pre-marriage is your personal belonging and thus only yours.
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To the Konuk (Student) : The articles stipulating the adultery offence to be incorporated into the New Penal Act once negotiated and came to the agenda, however did not pass and not ratified,thus the plan to criminalize adultery annulled.

At the moment, there is not such an offence in turkey. The articles laying down adultery in the old -but still in effect till April- penal law which were abolished by the Constitutional Court in 1988 was like this: "

Alıntı: Art. 440 : "İf a women found to have cheated on her husband should be sentenced to 6 months upto three years imprisonment" "The ones associated in crime in the knowledge that the woman were married shall be punished in the same extent" Art. 441 : "If a married man is found to have kept a single woman in his own house or somewhere common should be sentenced to 6 months upto three years imprisonment. The accomplice woman who has been knowingly associated in crime shall be punished in the same extent"