It is worth being clear on this question: neither the Regulation on Official Announcements and Advertisements nor Law No. 195 provides a fixed number of days for payment to the publication. What is regulated is not the payment calendar but how the fee is calculated, how the invoice is issued and which channel the flow runs through. This guide sets that flow out article by article.
The flow: how the fee arises and where it passes
| Step | Operation | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The announcement is given to the publication through an Agency branch | Law 195 Arts. 31, 42 |
| 2 | The fee is calculated according to the Official Announcement Price Tariff | Law 195 Art. 39 / Reg. Art. 27 |
| 3 | A 15% Agency commission is deducted from the calculated fee | Reg. Art. 116 |
| 4 | The publication issues an invoice over the remaining net amount | Reg. Art. 27(1) |
| 5 | Collection runs through the Agency | Law 195 Arts. 31, 42 |
| 6 | End-of-month quota and distribution tables open on İLANBİS | Reg. Art. 71(4) |
Who pays the fee?
The announcement fee is not always paid by the body giving the announcement. General Assembly Principle Decision No. 153 of the Press Advertisement Agency regulates the point: the fees of announcements and advertisements bearing the name, emblem or logo of the Agency’s statutory customers or their subsidiaries — prepared for purposes such as forming public opinion, publicising activities, marketing products or issuing invitations to opening and foundation-laying ceremonies — may be paid by others.
But the decision draws a line: even where the fee is paid by second and third persons, contracting and subcontracting organisations, or other institutions, organisations and foundations, the announcement remains within the scope of Article 42 of Law No. 195 by its material structure and nature. Such announcements are therefore not published unless given by the Agency.
The operating part of the decision is equally clear: Agency branches have the announcement published in the publications selected on the instruction of the announcement owners, collect the fee from the persons and organisations accepting to pay it over the publications’ private announcement and advertising tariffs, and issue invoices on their behalf.
Set-off and compensation (Art. 112)
The second mechanism directly related to payment is set-off and compensation. Under Article 112, the amount corresponding to official announcements published by newspapers or online news sites during a period of breach of the legislation is set off, while the equivalent of official announcements they were entitled to but could not publish is compensated.
The second paragraph determines how those operations are carried out and aims to prevent hardship: they are carried out in the following months over half of the publication’s monthly official announcement quota at the date of the decision. However, where the set-off or compensation amount exceeds three times the monthly quota at the date of the decision, the operation is carried out over the whole of the quota.
| Situation | Application |
|---|---|
| The amount does not exceed 3× the monthly quota | Over half the quota, in the following months |
| The amount exceeds 3× the monthly quota | Over the whole quota |
| Breach of General Category conditions | Set-off applied to the general quota |
| Other breaches | Set-off applied to the province-based quota |
Under the third paragraph, set-offs and compensations are applied following the finalisation of the decisions on which they are based, and the internal Agency instruction on that application is shared with the periodical concerned through İLANBİS.
Set-off where there is only one publication
Article 112(4) regulates a special case: where there is only one newspaper or online news site holding the right to publish in a place of publication or quota location, set-off operations are applied as follows:
- For district newspapers: official announcements in the amount of the set-off are published in other newspapers published in the provincial centre
- For newspapers published in a provincial centre and for online news sites: official announcements are suspended for a period equal to the established period of breach
Do not confuse this with the quota balance
Payment and quota carryover are different subjects. Under Article 75(3) official announcements published in excess or in deficit within a month are deducted from or added to the following month’s quota; but under the fourth paragraph those that do not publish announcements in time, or refrain from publishing without justified reason, cannot claim that balance. See the carryover guide.
Conclusion
The legislation does not set a fixed number of days for payment to the publication. What it sets is the flow: the fee is calculated according to the tariff, a 15% Agency commission is deducted, the invoice is issued over the net amount and collection runs through the Agency. In cases of breach or of inability to publish, the set-off and compensation mechanism operates over the quota in the following months.
The commission rate is covered in the commission guide and how the price is set in the pricing guide.