Is Methylone legal in Turkey?

Legal status

Methylone is not confirmed as a controlled substance in Turkey and this row is a deferral rather than a finding. The dossier searched the Turkish terms «metilon» and «bk-MDMA» and the transliterations metilon and bk-MDMA against the classification decisions made under article 19 of Law No. 2313 on the Control of Narcotic Substances, and confirmed no current entry. It rejected the near match «MDMA», because the beta-keto analogue is not MDMA, and MDMA is verified as scheduled on its own row. This compound is therefore a synthetic cathinone and a beta-keto MDMA analogue at once, which is why the second street name exists, and neither relationship supplies a Turkish entry: article 19 works by a Presidential decision naming a substance, and the annexes to the ten decisions footnoted in the consolidated statute are not reproduced there, so the search could not be completed against the decision text.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. No article in this chain carries a capital or whole life route, and no per-substance threshold was verified for this row. If a classification decision names methylone, the ceiling is 30 years under article 188(1) of Penal Code No. 5237, article 188(3) sets not less than ten years for selling, giving to another, dispatching, transporting, storing, purchasing, accepting and possessing, and the synthetic cathinone limb of article 188(4)(a) would raise the sentence by one half. That limb aggravates an offence already made out and does not by itself bring a substance under Law No. 2313. If no decision names the compound, none of those provisions engages. Article 191(1) would set two to five years for possession for use on the scheduled branch, with the five year deferral of 191(2) and at least a year of denetimli serbestlik under 191(3).

If prescribed or medical

There is no prescription route for methylone in Turkey and no medicinal preparation exists. The dossier carried no prescription instrument for this row and no per-substance medical route is asserted here. Article 188(6) of the Penal Code reaches permission bound or prescription bound substances that produce a narcotic or stimulant effect, and nothing before this row satisfies either limb. Absence of a confirmed entry is not a permission to import, sell or carry.

Documentation

Nothing documents an unconfirmed compound, and the practical risk on this row runs through the second street name. Material sold as MDMA and found on analysis to be methylone moves a person from a clearly scheduled substance to an unresolved one, and material sold as methylone and found to be MDMA moves them the other way, which is the more dangerous direction. The analysis required under article 20 of Law No. 2313 decides it, and a purchaser's expectation has no documentary form. The search log was read in the dossier on 18 September 2026 and article 188(4)(a) was read from the consolidated Penal Code 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.