15.05.2026 11:20
The bill containing a record amnesty for civil servants has been submitted to the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The proposal envisages the removal of certain past disciplinary penalties of public officials from their personnel files and their deletion from electronic record systems.
A bill containing a record amnesty for civil servants has been submitted to the Presidency of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM).
The "Law Proposal on Record Amnesty for State Civil Servants" envisions the removal of certain past disciplinary penalties of public officials from their personnel files and their deletion from electronic record systems.
"AFFECTS THEIR CAREERS"
In the general justification of the bill, it is stated that the effectiveness of public service is possible not only through the strictness of legislation but also by maintaining workplace peace and increasing the motivation of public personnel. It was emphasized that disciplinary penalties given many years ago continue to negatively affect the careers, promotions, and administrative evaluations of civil servants. The justification noted that presenting penalties such as warnings and reprimands to personnel for a long time is "incompatible with the principles of proportionality, fairness, and rehabilitation."
The bill regulates the amnesty of records related to penalties of warnings, reprimands, salary deductions, and suspension of step progression for civil servants subject to Law No. 657 on State Civil Servants and personnel transferred from contracted status to civil servant positions.
CERTAIN CRIMES ARE EXCLUDED
In the regulation, the penalty of dismissal from civil service is excluded from the amnesty. Additionally, disciplinary penalties imposed on those convicted of terrorist crimes, embezzlement, extortion, bribery, fraud, forgery, disclosure of state secrets, and other crimes that wound public conscience are also excluded.
The bill, submitted with the joint signatures of CHP Group Deputy Chairs Ali Mahir Başarır, Murat Emir, and Gökhan Günaydın, envisions that disciplinary records subject to amnesty will be removed from personnel files and deleted from electronic systems within six months of the law's entry into force.