Abstract:

Restriction of freedom for protection is enacted in between 432nd and 437th Article of the Turkish Civil Law. According to the first paragraph of Article 432 of the Turkish Civil Code; each person of age shall be placed with an appropriate institution for treatment, education or rehabilitation or retained unless their protection cannot be ensured by other means due to mental illness, weakness of mind, alcohol or drug abuse, communicable disease that poses grave danger or vagabondism. There are special provisions regarding procedural law in the Turkish Civil Code in the proceedings related restriction of freedom for protection. Except for the special provisions in question, in the proceedings regarding the restriction of freedom for the purpose of protection, the relevant provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be application to the extent that it is appropriate to its nature. At this point, the proceedings regarding the restriction of freedom for the purpose of protection have important features in terms of civil procedural law.

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