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Turkish Civil Code (Law No. 4721)

Article 588: IV. Request of the Treasury

Book Three: LAW OF SUCCESSION › Part Two: DEVOLUTION OF THE ESTATE › Chapter One: OPENING OF THE SUCCESSION

Where the assets of a person of whom it is not known whether he is alive, or the inheritance share falling to him, have been officially administered for ten years, or where the period by which the person whose assets are so administered would have reached the age of one hundred has elapsed, his absence shall be declared upon the request of the Treasury.

If no person entitled comes forward within the notice period required for a declaration of absence to be made, the estate of the absent person shall pass to the State, unless otherwise provided.

The State shall be obliged to make restitution to the absent person or to persons with superior rights in the same manner as those who take delivery of the estate of an absent person.

Original Turkish text

MADDE 588 · IV. Hazinenin istemi

Sağ olup olmadığı bilinmeyen bir kimsenin malvarlığı veya ona düşen miras payı on yıl resmen yönetilirse ya da malvarlığı böyle yönetilenin yüz yaşını dolduracağı süre geçerse, Hazinenin istemi üzerine o kimsenin gaipliğine karar verilir.

Gaiplik kararı verilebilmesi için gerekli ilân süresinde hiçbir hak sahibi ortaya çıkmazsa, aksine hüküm bulunmadıkça, gaibin mirası Devlete geçer.

Devlet, gaibe veya üstün hak sahiplerine karşı, aynen gaibin mirasını teslim alanlar gibi geri vermekle yükümlüdür.

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

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