For offenses whose investigation and prosecution depend on a complaint, the complaint period is six months, pursuant to Article 73/1 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) No. 5237. According to Article 73/2 of the Turkish Penal Code, this period—provided that it does not exceed the statute of limitations for prosecution—starts to run from the date on which the person entitled to file a complaint learns both the act and the identity of the perpetrator. Therefore, the complaint peri

Withdrawal of a criminal complaint may be defined as the request for a previously and duly filed complaint to be deemed invalid until the judgment becomes final. Although the Turkish Code of Criminal Procedure (CMK) does not contain a specific provision regulating the form of withdrawal, it is accepted that a declaration of withdrawal may be made before a court, a judge, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, law enforcement authorities, or a notary public, or may be submitted by m