lumees/turkish-legislation-corpus

Turkish Legislation Dataset

This dataset contains Turkish legislative texts (laws) scraped from the official Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr). The raw data has been cleaned, stripped of unnecessary whitespace, and structured into the JSONL format.

Dataset Contents

The dataset includes the full text of laws currently in force in the Republic of Turkey, along with relevant metadata. It is suitable for NLP tasks in the legal domain, such as LLM fine-tuning, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, and text classification.

Data Format (JSONL)

Each line in the file is a JSON object containing the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
url	string	The original source URL of the legislation.
text	string	The cleaned text of the law. Line breaks and broken whitespace have been fixed.
law_number	int/null	The specific Law Number (extracted via Regex).
acceptance_date	string	The date the law was accepted (DD/MM/YYYY).
source	string	Source of the data (mevzuat.gov.tr).

Example Data

{
  "url": "[https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/](https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/)...",
  "text": "LAW AMENDING CERTAIN LAWS REGARDING HEALTH... Law Number : 7557...",
  "law_number": 7557,
  "acceptance_date": "21/7/2025",
  "source": "mevzuat.gov.tr"
}

Use Cases

• Legal LLM: Training or fine-tuning language models on formal Turkish legal terminology.
• Semantic Search: Building vector-based search engines for legal research.
• Summarization: Automating the summarization of long legislative texts.

Disclaimer & Licensing

This dataset was compiled from public official sources. According to Article 31 of the Turkish Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works (FSEK), official texts such as laws, decrees, and regulations are not subject to copyright and are in the public domain.

Legal Disclaimer: This dataset is for informational and research purposes only. It is not an official document. For official legal procedures, please refer to the Official Gazette (Resmi Gazete) or mevzuat.gov.tr.