In short
The question of whether the police minutes must be signed looks at whether the account will be tied to the police record. A signature is not approval of a page that was not read. Each page is checked, a wrong line is had corrected, and a state of not signing can be entered in the minutes. This text sets no prison term and no article number. No conclusion is reached before the original minutes have been seen.
Reading page by page
The minutes are the document in which the question that was asked and the answer that was given are written. A sentence recounted orally may have turned into a different sentence on the paper. A line whose meaning is closed is asked about, and a signature is not put before it is corrected, because a later sentence of "I did not say that" becomes harder against a signed text. A lower section left blank is not an open space for a sentence to be added later. A signature is not considered before the blank is closed or struck through. If there is more than one page, it is checked, together with the date and the time, that each page belongs to the same event.
Correction, refusal, and silence
A place that was written wrongly is corrected on the minutes. An oral promise of "we will correct it later" does not take the place of the line. If not signing is chosen, the reason is had written shortly, and this refusal is not treated as the same step as silence. Silence is not answering the question. Refusing the signature is not approving the text that was drawn up. The two can come up at the same time, but which choice was written should appear separately in the minutes. Defence counsel helps the person read whether the line matches what the person recounted. A hasty signature while counsel is absent does not of itself have the right of correction treated as used.
Neighbouring records are not the same paper
An account given at the police stands under statement at the police, and the text kept at the public prosecutor stands under public prosecutor's minutes. Defence counsel being present, in the right to defence counsel, and the reading of the statement as evidence, in evidential value, are separate questions. The frame to be remembered before the signature is under before giving a statement. These five records are not a copy of the signature line of the police minutes. A prison term and an article number are not written into this distinction either.
What is looked at in the minutes
The minutes that were read, the annotation of correction, and the place of the signature stand together. A missing page is not accepted as a completed account. A lawyer in Ankara does not put the address of the office in Çankaya in place of the unit where the statement was taken. The step is read from the place where the minutes were drawn up. A decision, or an indictment, does not stand in for this paper, and the petition is not treated as having corrected unsigned minutes of itself. A prison term and an article number are not here either. The outcome comes out of the line in the document.
The integrity of the pages, and a line added later
Signing is not only the signature box on the last page. Initials on the earlier pages, or a missing page, change the whole of the text. A signature put without reading does not of itself make the sentence the person recounted and the sentence on the paper the same. Where the account was taken is not assumed before the date, the time, and the name of the unit appear in the minutes. The old state of a corrected line is closed so that it cannot be read. A wrong sentence whose top is left open leads to the old account and the new account standing together. While the defence-counsel line is being checked, the signature is not treated as completed before the word the person objected to is entered in the minutes.
A refusal to sign does not mean the minutes were never drawn up. The reason for the refusal is written shortly, and this writing is not stuck in place of the choice to stay silent. A sentence remembered later is not read as if it had been added to the signed text. A decision, or an indictment, does not of itself complete the missing page of these minutes. A prison term and an article number are not written into the debate on the integrity of the pages either. The outcome comes out of the line in the document in hand. If there is more than one set of minutes, which one was signed is distinguished from the date and the subject heading, and a mixed file is not treated as a single account. The blank at the foot of each page is not a space to be filled later. A signature is not considered before the blank is closed. The word the person had corrected should stand in the minutes in a readable state, and a faint line does not mean that both the old sentence and the new sentence are in force.
Conclusion
Signing the police minutes is tying a record that was read and, if needed, corrected. Not signing can also be entered in the minutes, and this choice is not mixed with silence. A prison term and an article number are not written in this text. The frame is on the criminal law page, and the basis is the text of the Code of Criminal Procedure, Law No. 5271.