Confiscation of earnings

Confiscation of earnings is an institution regulated as a new provision in the fiftyfifth article of our Turkish penal code with the adoption of Law No. 5237. (During the period of the Turkish Penal Code No. 765, there was no separate regulation of confiscation of earnings in the code). However, the confiscation of earnings was implemented within the scope of the 'goods that are resulting from crime' sentence in the thirty-sixth article of code No. 765. With the new Turkish Penal Code, confiscation of earnings is clearly defined in the code and its nature is clearly expressed as a security measure.