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Code of Criminal Procedure

Article 239: Rights of the intervening party

Book Four: Victim, Complainant, Person with Financial Liability, Intervening Party › Part Two: Intervention in the Public Prosecution

(1) Amended: 24/7/2008, Law No. 5793, Art. 41 When the victim or the person harmed by the offence intervenes in the case, he may request that a lawyer be assigned to him by the bar association in the offences of sexual assault, sexual abuse of children or stalking, and in the offences of intentional injury, torture or torment committed against women, as well as in offences requiring a sentence of imprisonment with a lower limit of more than five years.

(2) Where the victim or the person harmed by the offence is a child, deaf and mute, or mentally ill to such a degree as to be unable to defend himself, no request shall be required for the assignment of a lawyer.

Original Turkish text

MADDE 239 · Katılanın hakları

(1) (Değişik: 24/7/2008-5793/41 md.) Mağdur veya suçtan zarar gören davaya katıldığında, cinsel saldırı, çocukların cinsel istismarı veya ısrarlı takip suçları ile kadına karşı işlenen kasten yaralama, işkence veya eziyet suçlarında ve alt sınırı beş yıldan fazla hapis cezasını gerektiren suçlarda, baro tarafından kendisine avukat görevlendirilmesini isteyebilir.

(2) Mağdur veya suçtan zarar görenin çocuk, sağır ve dilsiz veya kendisini savunamayacak derecede akıl hastası olması halinde avukat görevlendirilmesi için istem aranmaz.

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

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