Law on Monuments and Memorials (2004)

Law on Monuments and Memorials as promulgated in the Official Gazette 66/2004

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Chapter VII: Penal Provisions

Article 27

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The person who shall erect a monument or memorial by which they would incite or foment ethnic, racial or religious hatred and discord, or which are contrary to the constitutional order, shall be punished for a criminal act with a fine or sentence of imprisonment up to three years.

In an extremely serious case of the criminal act of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, the perpetrator shall be punished with a sentence of imprisonment from six months to five years.

For the act of paragraph 2 of this Article, the court shall pronounce a protective measure removal of the monument or memorial.

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