29. What are the eligibility criteria for political parties to receive public funding?

Annex Article 1 – (Provision of Annex article by article 2 of Law 3032 dated 27/6/1984, numbered to show sequence)

Political parties who have been granted the right to run in the last parliamentary elections by the Supreme Board of Elections and who have exceeded the general threshold specified in article 33 of the Parliamentary Elections Law 2839 shall be allocated, for that financial year, a sum corresponding to two five-thousandths of the total sum in the ‘(B) Budget Sheet’ of the general budget revenues of that year, to be paid by the Treasury each year.

(First sentence amended by Article 21 of Law 4445, dated 12 August 1999) This allocation shall be distributed among political parties eligible for state aid, as per the foregoing article, in proportion to the total number of valid votes received by each party as announced the Supreme Board of Elections after the general elections and shall be paid each year. These allocations shall be paid within yen days as of the effective date of that year’s general budget law.

(Third paragraph repealed Article 21 of Law 4445, dated 12 August 1999)

(Amended by Article 4 of Law 6529, dated 13 March 2014) The aid given according to this Article shall be used only for the needs or activities of the party.

Political parties that receive more than 3% of the total number of valid votes during general parliamentary elections shall also be entitled to receive State aid. This aid shall be determined in proportion to the aid received by the political party receiving the least State aid according to the second clause of this article, and also in proportion to the number of votes obtained in the general elections, based on the total number of valid votes. The amount of aid performed according to this clause cannot be less then one million Turkish Liras. Every year, sufficient funds shall be allocated from the budget of the Ministry of Finance to ensure this aid.”

Threefold the amounts of aid set forth in the foregoing paragraphs shall be paid to the eligible political parties for the year of general parliamentary elections and twofold for the year of countrywide local elections. If both elections are held in the same year, not more than threefold this amount shall be paid. The multiplied allocations made as per this paragraph shall be paid within ten days as of the notice made by the Supreme Board of Elections regarding the election calendar. [...]

Source: Annex Article 1, Law on Political Parties, 1983 (amended 2018)

The political parties that received at least 3% of votes in last parliamentary election have right to direct public funding.