Tr Eli MCP server

tr-eli-mcp

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.matematicsolutions/tr-eli-mcp -->

An MCP server for Turkish legislation (Kanun/laws, KHK/decree-laws, Tuzuk/statutes, Yonetmelik/regulations, Cumhurbaskanligi Kararnamesi/presidential decrees, Teblig/communiques and more), served as a keyless JSON API by the Adalet Bakanligi (Ministry of Justice) at bedesten.adalet.gov.tr/mevzuat. It gives an AI agent legislation text and metadata with a verifiable citation: a resolvable identifier, a human-readable citation, and a link to the official source.

Part of the eu-legal-mcp line by MateMatic — one connector per country, the same citation contract everywhere. Turkey is included under this line's broader "Europe" framing (Council of Europe member, EU accession candidate), alongside connectors that map strictly to EU-27 membership.

On ELI. Turkey does not publish native ELI (/eli/) URIs. To keep the line's

contract honest, eli_uri carries the canonical, resolvable mevzuat.gov.tr URL instead —

e.g. https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuat?MevzuatNo=5237&MevzuatTur=1&MevzuatTertip=5 — which

every Bedesten search record already supplies. The connector never fabricates an /eli/ URI

and says so in its tool instructions. See DISCOVERY.md.

On case law. This connector covers legislation only. Yargitay (Court of Cassation)

decision search was unreachable (TCP timeout) from the build network, and Anayasa Mahkemesi

(Constitutional Court) exposes only a client-rendered SPA with no discovered server API.

Neither is wired up here — see DISCOVERY.md for what was actually checked.

Tools

Every response carries the citation contract:

Gazette (Resmi Gazete) date/number, e.g. 5237 sayili Turk Ceza Kanunu (Resmi Gazete: 12/10/2004, Sayi: 25611).

• eli_uri — the canonical, resolvable mevzuat.gov.tr identifier (see the ELI note above).
• humanreadablecitation — the Turkish citation convention: law number + name + Official

• source_url — the same canonical mevzuat.gov.tr page.

Install

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Register it with your MCP client (see .mcp.json.example):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tr-eli-mcp": {
      "command": "tr-eli-mcp",
      "env": {
        "TR_ELI_BASE_URL": "https://bedesten.adalet.gov.tr/mevzuat",
        "TR_ELI_CACHE_DIR": "~/.matematic/cache/tr-eli",
        "TR_ELI_AUDIT_DIR": "~/.matematic/audit"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windows 11 with Smart App Control

Smart App Control blocks unsigned executables, which covers uvx.exe, pip.exe and the tr-eli-mcp.exe launcher that pip writes at install time. The python.exe and py.exe from the python.org installer are signed by the Python Software Foundation, so running the module through the interpreter works:

python -m pip install tr-eli-mcp
python -m tr_eli_mcp

pip.exe is blocked for the same reason, so install with python -m pip, not pip install. If python is not on PATH, use the Windows launcher: py -3 -m trelimcp.

{ "mcpServers": { "tr-eli-mcp": { "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "tr_eli_mcp"] } } }

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.