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filed, promptly, provided that the cost of such announcement shall be
collected from the party against whom the judgment has been award-
ed, shallot then be recorded as budget income.
Consumer court judgments ordering the elimination of the viola-
tion of the Law no. 4077 shall be announced promptly in the same
manner, at the expense of the defendant.
Suspension of Production, Sales and Product Recalls
ARTICLE 24 - İn the event that a series of goods offered for
sale are defective, the Ministry, consumers or consumer orga-
nizations may initiate a lawsuit for the suspension of produc-
tion and the defective good, and recall of the goods held for
sale. In the event the court decides the defective goods to be
collected concluding the lawsuit; based on the qualifications
of the defective good and the defect, it shall be decided
whether or not such goods shall be returned to the seller.
However, until all costs incurred for the collection of the
goods are paid by the person against whom a judgment is
given, the goods shall not be returned to him.
Any lawsuits of recourse to be filed by third persons who
acquired the goods, subject to the lawsuit, for sale purposes,
shall be heard before courts who heard the initial lawsuit.
The right of the consumers who purchased defective goods to indi-
vidually initiate lawsuit due to the moral or material damages they suf-
fered is reserved.
Pursuant to article 24 of Law no. 4077, in the event that a series of
goods offered for sale are defective, the Ministry, consumers or con-
sumer organizations may initiate a lawsuit for the suspension of pro-
duction and of the defective good, and recall of the goods held for sale
from the actors in the market.
In the event it is revealed with a court judgment that a series of
goods offered for sale is defective, the sale of such product shall be
temporarily suspended. A warning shall be issued to the manufacturer-
producer and/or importer firm to remedy the defect of the good at lat-
est within three months as of the date of notification of the court’s
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