Is DOM legal in Turkey?

Legal status

DOM is a controlled substance in Turkey and the dossier carries it under the schedule name dom, a VERIFIED placement in the classification decisions made under article 19 of Law No. 2313 on the Control of Narcotic Substances. This row is the clearest illustration in the Turkish set of how a closed list behaves. DOM is a substituted phenethylamine, and the five 2C compounds in this corpus, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2C-I, 2C-T-7 and 25I-NBOMe, were each searched under their Turkish and chemical names and none was confirmed in the decisions. A closed list reaches the molecules it names, so a confirmed entry for one member of a chemical family says nothing about the others, and the dossier's rejections on those rows turn on exactly that point, for instance 2C-E against 2C-B «because the ethyl and bromo homologues are distinct». DOM is not in the article 188(4)(a) uplift list of Penal Code No. 5237.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. The cited instruments give no per-substance numeric quantity threshold; purpose and circumstances are assessed case by case, and the ceiling is 30 years under article 188(1) of Penal Code No. 5237, «yirmi yıldan otuz yıla kadar hapis ve ikibin günden yirmibin güne kadar adlî para cezası», for unlicensed manufacture, import or export. Article 188(3) sets not less than ten years for domestic sale, supply, dispatch, transport, storage, purchase, acceptance and possession, rising to fifteen where the person supplied is a child. DOM is active in single milligram doses, which means an ordinary trafficking quantity by count is a negligible quantity by weight, and since neither instrument states a weight rule the assessment rests on purpose and circumstances. Article 191(1) sets two to five years for possession for use and for use itself, and article 192(2) provides that a person who bought, accepted or possessed for use and who tells the authorities from whom, where and when it was obtained, before they had learned of the offence, is not sentenced.

If prescribed or medical

There is no prescription route for DOM in Turkey. It has no medicinal preparation anywhere, the dossier recorded no prescription instrument for this row, and no per-substance medical route is asserted here. Article 188(6) of the Penal Code extends the trafficking paragraphs to substances that are permission bound or prescription bound and produce a narcotic or stimulant effect, but that extension is aimed at medicines and does not apply to a substance with no medical form at all.

Documentation

No document makes DOM lawful to carry, and the documentation risk on this row runs the other way from most: material sold as something else may be found to contain DOM, and the charge follows the analysis obtained under article 20 of Law No. 2313 rather than the seller's description. A traveller cannot document a belief about content. The schedule name was read in the dossier on 18 September 2026 and article 19 with articles 188 and 191 were read from the consolidated texts on 20 September 2026.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Turkey’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.