REPUBLIC OF TURKEY: THE PRESIDENCY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS, THE SUPREME BOARD OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS

     The Supreme Board of Religious Affairs stated by its decision dated March 6th, 1980/396, that organ transplantation is lawful. According to this decision organ transplantation may only be performed under the following conditions:

1. Under necessity: that is, when a medical doctor, hose professional efficiency and integrity is respected, states that organ transplantation is the only way to save a patient's life or one of his vital organs.
2. When the medical doctor is of the prevailing opinion that organ transplantation is the only way to cure the disease.
3. When it is certain that the person whose organ or tissue to be removed is dead.
4. When the patient who will receive a transplanted organ gives this consent to the operation.

     Only the person to whom one donates one of his/her organs oneself is responsible for all his/her good and evil deeds.