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Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law No. 2004

Article 340

Amended: 31/5/2005, Law No. 5358, Art. 11

A debtor who, without a valid reason, breaches the undertaking to pay the debt agreed upon at the enforcement office pursuant to Article 111 or with the consent of the creditor shall, upon the complaint of the creditor, be subject to a decision of coercive imprisonment of up to three months. If, after the execution of the imprisonment has commenced, the debtor pays the entire debt or the amount he was obliged to deposit with the enforcement cash office up to that date, he shall be released; if he stops his payments again, coercive imprisonment shall again be ordered against him. However, the duration of coercive imprisonment for a single debt may not exceed three months.

Penalty for disobeying an order for the handing over of a child:

Original Turkish text

MADDE 340

(Değişik: 31/5/2005-5358/11 md.)

111 inci madde mucibince veya alacaklının muvafakati ile icra dairesinde kararlaştırılan borcu ödeme şartını, makbul bir sebep olmaksızın ihlal eden borçlunun, alacaklının şikâyeti üzerine, üç aya kadar tazyik hapsine karar verilir. Hapsin tatbikine başlandıktan sonra borçlu borcun tamamını veya o tarihe kadar icra veznesine yatırmak zorunda olduğu meblağı öderse tahliye edilir; ödemelerini tekrar keserse, hakkında tazyik hapsine yeniden karar verilir. Ancak, bir borçtan dolayı tazyik hapsinin süresi üç ayı geçemez.

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Text as of 1 October 2026 · Official source (Turkish): mevzuat.gov.tr ↗

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