The 6284 Order You Were Handed in Türkiye: How Long It Lasts and Your Two-Week Window to Object

The document is an order under Law No. 6284 on the Protection of the Family and the Prevention of Violence Against Women. It is given by a family court judge, who is the only judge the Law recognises for this purpose (art. 2/1-c), or, where delay would be harmful, by the duty police chief. It is not a charge, not a conviction, and not a judicial finding that you did anything.

Two provisions explain why nobody asked for your account first. For the measures taken in favour of the other person, article 8/3 states expressly that no evidence or document showing that violence occurred is required. For the preventive measures aimed at you — the ones listed in article 5 — the same provision requires the order to be given without delay and forbids any postponement that would endanger the purpose of the Law. Together they mean the judge decides on the applicant's statement alone, often the same day.

If a police chief issued it rather than a judge, only four measures were available to him under article 5/2: no threatening, insulting or humiliating words, immediate removal from the shared home, no approach to the protected person or her home, school and workplace, and no approach to her relatives, witnesses and children. He must place the file before the judge no later than the first working day following the decision, and any measure the judge does not approve within twenty-four hours lapses by itself.

The order will name you as the şiddet uygulayan, the person applying violence. That is the statutory label for whoever an order is directed at. It is not a determination of guilt, and it is not what a court will later be deciding in any criminal file.

Article 8/2 fixes the ceiling: the first order may be given for a maximum of six months. That is a ceiling, not a standard term. Many orders are written for one, two or three months, and only the date on your own copy tells you which.

Six months is also not an ending. The same provision lets the court, on its own motion or on the application of the protected person, the Ministry or the police, change the duration or the form of the measures, lift them, or continue them unchanged where it appears that violence or the danger of violence will persist. In a file that sits alongside a divorce or a custody dispute, renewal is ordinary.

What the order can impose is set out in article 5/1, and the judge may order one of those measures, several of them, or similar measures it considers appropriate — so the list is a floor, not a ceiling:

• no words or conduct involving threat, insult, humiliation or belittling
• immediate removal from the shared home, which is then allocated to the protected person
• no approach to her, or to her home, school or workplace
• where a contact order for the children already exists, contact supervised, restricted or removed entirely
• no approach to her relatives, to witnesses, or to the children
• no damage to her personal and household belongings
• no contact by telephone, messaging or any other means
• surrender to the police of any firearm you are lawfully entitled to hold
• surrender to your own institution of a service weapon you hold by reason of a public duty
• no alcohol or drugs where she is, and treatment where there is dependency
• attendance at a health institution for examination, and treatment where it is required

Under article 12 the judge may order technical means to check compliance, but the same article forbids your voice or image being listened to, watched or recorded. Under articles 5/3 and 5/4 the same judge may decide custody, guardianship, contact and maintenance in the same decision, and may award interim maintenance even though no one requested it.

Article 9/1 gives a single route: an objection to the family court within two weeks of the date the order was pronounced to you in court (tefhim) or served on you (tebliğ). The clock runs from that date, not from the day you found someone to translate the document. Article 20/1 removes every cost: no court fee, no postal charge, no expense under any name, either for the application or for enforcement.

Where the objection is heard is fixed by article 9/2: the file goes to the next-numbered family court chamber in the same courthouse, to the first chamber if yours was the last, or, where there is only one family court, to the civil court of first instance. Under article 9/3 the reviewing court decides within one week, and its decision is final — there is no appeal beyond it.

An objection is not a retrial of the incident. The reviewing court is asking whether these particular measures, at this width and for this length, are proportionate to what the file contains. That is why objections aimed at a defined point tend to be the ones a court can actually work with: a blanket removal of contact with your children where no allegation involves them, removal from a flat that is your registered residence address, a six-month term on a file consisting of one argument and no medical report. Because article 8/2 lets the court change the form or the duration rather than only cancel or confirm, a narrowed order is a real result rather than a consolation.

Article 13/1 is the provision to read twice. If you act contrary to the requirements of the order, the judge imposes three to ten days of coercive detention (zorlama hapsi), according to the nature of the measure breached and the gravity of the breach — and expressly even if the act also constitutes an offence. On each repetition the range becomes fifteen to thirty days (art. 13/2), with a total ceiling of six months. The public prosecutor enforces these orders (art. 13/3). One message asking to talk, one return to the flat for your belongings, one appearance outside the school is enough to start this, whatever the reason for it.

The criminal file, if there is one, runs entirely separately. Simple injury treatable by a simple medical intervention carries six months to a year and a half of imprisonment or a judicial fine and normally depends on a complaint, but the lower limit cannot fall below nine months where the victim is a woman (TCK 86/2); and where the victim is a spouse, prosecution proceeds without any complaint and the sentence is increased by half (TCK 86/3-a). That file follows its own path, and is dealt with under assault and public order charges.

On records: article 4/1 of the Judicial Records Law (No. 5352) provides that only final conviction judgments of Turkish courts are entered in the judicial record. A 6284 order is not a conviction and a coercive detention order is not a sentence, so neither appears on the certificate you would be asked for in the ordinary way — but the Violence Prevention and Monitoring Centres keep their own register of measure orders under article 15/1-a. What does and does not show is set out under criminal records in Türkiye.

The residence consequence is the one foreign spouses underestimate. A family residence permit requires you to show that you live with, or intend to live with, the supporting spouse (Law No. 6458, art. 35/3-b), and the permit is cancelled or not renewed once that condition falls away (art. 36/1-a). Separately, article 54/1-d provides that a removal decision shall be taken for a foreigner assessed as a threat to public order, public security or public health — the judgement lying in the assessment, not in whether the decision follows; how that assessment is made and challenged is covered under deportation and entry bans. An order that removes you from the shared home therefore touches your status as well as your evenings, which is why the objection and the criminal file need to be handled as one problem rather than two. The broader picture — the police stage, the prosecutor's file and the conciliation questions — is set out on our page on domestic violence allegations in a mixed marriage.