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+# plates/tr.yml — Türkiye (the plates spec gate L5).
+#
+# THE ONE THING TO READ FIRST: **ON 2025-11-04 TÜRKİYE REPEALED ITS ENTIRE
+# PLATE-FORMAT APPARATUS OUT OF THE KARAYOLLARI TRAFİK YÖNETMELİĞİ, AND WHAT
+# REPLACED IT IS NOT SOURCED IN THIS PASS.** The amending regulation
+# (Resmî Gazete 4 Kasım 2025, sayı 33067) MADDE 4 repeals KTY Maddeler 54-59 —
+# the letter/digit groups, the colour table, the serial-allocation rules, the
+# special-allocation plates and the vanity-plate regime — and MADDE 5 repeals
+# the engineering drawings Ek-12 through Ek:12/Y. In the current consolidated
+# text every one of Maddeler 54-59 now reads `(Mülga:RG-4/11/2025-33067)`.
+#
+# WHAT THAT MEANS FOR EVERY SERIES BELOW, STATED ONCE:
+#   * The format, colour and letter-group facts are `statute` tier FOR THE
+#     PERIOD ENDING 2025-11-03. They are quoted from the pre-repeal text.
+#   * For issuance TODAY they are DE FACTO ONLY. Plates in the street are
+#     unchanged, but no in-force instrument was read. Presumably an İçişleri or
+#     EGM-level instrument now governs; it was not opened and is NOT guessed.
+#   * So no series here is closed. A repeal of the article that DESCRIBES a
+#     format is not evidence that the format stopped being issued, and this
+#     file must not turn a legal-basis change into a fake era boundary. Each
+#     series carries `period.start` from its enabling instrument, stays open,
+#     and records the repeal in `legal_basis_note`.
+# KTY **Madde 53 (physical qualities and dimensions) SURVIVED** the repeal and
+# is still in force — it is not in the repeal list. That is why the dimension
+# claims here are at a higher tier than the format claims.
+#
+# FIVE MORE STRUCTURAL FACTS
+#
+# 1. THE SIX SERIAL SHAPES ARE A CLOSED STATUTORY LIST, NOT AN OBSERVATION.
+#    KTY Madde 55 ¶1 (as amended RG-19/2/2014-28918), verbatim: "Tescil
+#    plakalarında; il kod numarasından sonra ikili harf üçlü rakam, tekli harf
+#    dörtlü rakam ve üçlü harf ikili rakam ile ikili harf dörtlü rakam, tekli
+#    harf beşli rakam ve üçlü harf üçlü rakamdan oluşan harf ve rakam grupları
+#    bulunur." The regulation states the COUNTS IN WORDS and gives no example
+#    plate, so the masks in `variants` are this file's rendering of the counts.
+#
+# 2. THE SERIAL ALPHABET IS GENUINELY UNSOURCED, AND THIS FILE SAYS SO RATHER
+#    THAN GUESSING. The KTY nowhere enumerates the permitted letters: Madde 55
+#    ¶2 and Madde 57 delegate the character inventory to "Emniyet Genel
+#    Müdürlüğünce belirlenecek listeler" (EGM-determined lists), which were not
+#    obtained. The widely-repeated claim that Ç Ğ İ Ö Ş Ü and Q W X are
+#    excluded is TERTIARY ONLY. This file therefore does NOT declare a narrowed
+#    `serial_alphabet:` — declaring the 23-letter set would assert as fact the
+#    exact thing that could not be sourced. It inherits the global A-Z 0-9,
+#    which is the WIDER set, because a too-narrow alphabet silently fails real
+#    plates while a too-wide one merely under-rejects.
+#    Weak corroboration, recorded as corroboration and not as proof: every
+#    letter group the regulation itself names (A, AA, AAA, CC, CD, CG, CM,
+#    MA-MZ, T, G, GMR, JAA-JZZ, SGH, CB, TBMM) is ASCII and none contains
+#    Q, W or X.
+#
+# 3. THERE IS NO SEPARATOR GLYPH, AND THAT IS NOW A STRONGER CLAIM THAN USUAL.
+#    The regulation specifies no character between the province code and the
+#    serial — no hyphen, no dot. Positioning lived ENTIRELY in the Ek-12/*
+#    engineering drawings, which are repealed and were not retrieved. So "no
+#    hyphen, no dot" is safe; the exact millimetre gap is unverified. Every
+#    pattern renders the gap as the emitted SPACE of §2.6 and every regex
+#    accepts it as optional.
+#
+# 4. THE PROVINCE-CODE RANGE IS NOT SOURCED AND IS DELIBERATELY NOT ENCODED.
+#    Madde 55 ¶2 delegates the il-kod list to EGM; no official list page was
+#    opened. The familiar 01-81 range is TERTIARY ONLY, so this file does NOT
+#    narrow the province code in any regex — an unsourced narrowing would
+#    reject real plates, which is the one failure mode worse than accepting too
+#    many. Statute DOES confirm a two-digit province index exists: Madde 58/c
+#    prefixes a two-digit province order number to governors' plates.
+#    No decode table ships. That is V2.
+#
+# 5. TÜRKİYE HAS NO HISTORIC/CLASSIC PLATE SERIES, AND THAT IS A FINDING.
+#    Searching the full pre-repeal KTY for klasik / tarihi araç / antika returns
+#    NOTHING. Same for "serbest bölge" (free zone). These are recorded as
+#    ABSENT rather than as not-yet-researched, which is a different and more
+#    useful claim. Military plates are likewise absent from the KTY entirely —
+#    they are governed by MSB/TSK instruments outside this regulation.
+#
+# §VERIFIER — open questions in priority order
+#   V1. THE BIG ONE: what instrument governs plate format and colour after
+#       2025-11-04? Everything below is pre-repeal text until this is answered.
+#   V2. The EGM letter-group lists and the il-kod table — then, and only then,
+#       ship plates/_decode/tr-province-codes.yml.
+#   V3. Colour hexes. NO hex is asserted anywhere in this file: Madde 56 names
+#       colours in words ("mavi", "yeşil", "sarı") and words are not hex.
+#   V4. Ek-12/* glyph geometry, stroke widths and inter-group gaps (repealed;
+#       retrieve from an archived copy).
+#   V5. Digit widths for the A/AA/AAA office series and the CB/TBMM special
+#       allocations — named in statute, widths not stated, so NOT shipped.
+jurisdiction: tr
+authority:
+  name: "Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü (General Directorate of Security)"
+  url: "https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf"
+  authority_evidence: >-
+    KTY Madde 55 ¶2 assigns plate-number allocation to the EGM ("Emniyet Genel
+    Müdürlüğünce belirlenecek listelerdeki ... sıra esasına göre tahsis
+    edilir"), and Madde 57 routes district letter-group allocation through the
+    provincial police chief and governor. The url is the consolidated
+    regulation that says so, not an EGM marketing page. Printing and
+    distribution of plates is carried out by the Türkiye Şoförler ve
+    Otomobilciler Federasyonu per a further KTY article whose heading was seen
+    but whose full text was not read — recorded as partial.
+binding: vehicle
+binding_note: >-
+  Kanun 2918 Madde 21: a registered vehicle may not be used without a "Tescil
+  Belgesi" and a "Tescil Plakası" — the plate is an attribute of the registered
+  VEHICLE. Note Madde 28 separately provides that state-owned vehicles' plates
+  differ in COLOUR, which is a class marker on the vehicle, not owner-binding
+  in the Swiss sense.
+instrument:
+  act:
+    citation: "Karayolları Trafik Kanunu No. 2918"
+    url: "https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.5.2918.pdf"
+    relevant_articles: >-
+      Madde 21 (registration document + plate mandatory), Madde 26
+      (distinguishing marks incl. plate, colour, shape, symbol), Madde 28
+      (state-owned vehicles' plates are a different colour — the statutory
+      basis for the Madde 56 colour table).
+  regulation:
+    citation: "Karayolları Trafik Yönetmeliği, promulgated 18/7/1997, RG 23053 mükerrer"
+    url: "https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf"
+    pre_repeal_text_url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf"
+  repeal:
+    citation: "Karayolları Trafik Yönetmeliğinde Değişiklik Yapılmasına Dair Yönetmelik, RG 4/11/2025 sayı 33067"
+    url: "https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2025/11/20251104-4.htm"
+    effect: >-
+      MADDE 4 repeals KTY Maddeler 54-59; MADDE 5 repeals Ek-12 through
+      Ek:12/Y. Madde 53 (physical qualities/dimensions) is NOT repealed.
+series:
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # THE ORDINARY MARK. Province code + one of six statutory letter/digit
+  # groups. One series, six shapes as variants (§2.3: shared design and
+  # period, differing only in group widths).
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: tr-standard-2014
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer]
+    period: { start: 2014 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-instrument
+    period_note: >-
+      2014 is the date of RG-19/2/2014-28918, the amendment that SUBSTITUTED
+      the six-group enumeration into Madde 55 — an enabling-instrument date, in
+      the za.yml sense, expressly not a first-issue date. The parent regulation
+      dates from 1997 and earlier Turkish plates of this general shape long
+      predate both; the date on which each shape began to be issued is a
+      separate and weaker fact that this pass did not establish.
+    legal_basis_note: >-
+      Madde 55 was REPEALED on 2025-11-04 (RG 33067). The shapes are still
+      issued; the article describing them is gone. See the file header.
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99 LL 9999"
+      # The union of the six statutory groups, written in PRINTED form (§2.6
+      # rule 2) with the gap optional. The province code is NOT narrowed — see
+      # header fact 4.
+      regex: '\A\d{2} ?(?:[A-Z] ?\d{4,5}|[A-Z]{2} ?\d{3,4}|[A-Z]{3} ?\d{2,3})\z'
+      variants:
+        - { pattern: "99 LL 999",   note: "ikili harf üçlü rakam — two letters, three figures" }
+        - { pattern: "99 L 9999",   note: "tekli harf dörtlü rakam — one letter, four figures" }
+        - { pattern: "99 LLL 99",   note: "üçlü harf ikili rakam — three letters, two figures" }
+        - { pattern: "99 LL 9999",  note: "ikili harf dörtlü rakam — two letters, four figures (rendered on the parent pattern)" }
+        - { pattern: "99 L 99999",  note: "tekli harf beşli rakam — one letter, five figures" }
+        - { pattern: "99 LLL 999",  note: "üçlü harf üçlü rakam — three letters, three figures" }
+      progression: >-
+        Madde 55 ¶2: numbers are allotted "sıra esasına göre" (in sequence)
+        from EGM-determined lists of province codes and letter/digit groups.
+        Madde 57 adds that each district registration office receives its own
+        DISTINCT letter groups, allotted on the provincial police chief's
+        proposal with the governor's approval, and that a letter group given to
+        one district may not be given to another.
+        FOLKLORE, FLAGGED AND NOT ASSERTED: the enthusiast claim that letter
+        series run alphabetically in national registration order is NOT
+        supported by the text — sequence is within per-province/per-district
+        EGM lists, which is a much weaker era signal.
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm }
+      plate_variants:
+        - { w: 240, h: 150, unit: mm, note: "motorised bicycle, motorcycle, load motorcycle, rubber-tyred tractor — 15x24 cm, one plate, rear (Madde 53/b as amended RG-21/3/2012-28240)" }
+        - { w: 320, h: 210, unit: mm, note: "car/van/minibus/truck/tractor unit/bus REAR alternative — 21x32 cm" }
+        - { w: 300, h: 150, unit: mm, note: "15x30 cm where the vehicle's recess fits neither standard size" }
+      background_note: "white (Madde 56 ¶1(b), 'resmi olmayan' vehicles) — colour named in words; no hex asserted (V3)"
+      foreground_note: "black characters"
+      band:
+        side: left
+        content: "(TR) national identification mark inside a 4 x 10 cm blue rectangle"
+      band_note: >-
+        Madde 55 ¶3: the (TR) mark shown in Ek:12/V is carried BEFORE the
+        province code inside a 4x10 cm blue rectangle, applied as a reflective
+        layer during manufacture and not removable physically or chemically
+        without damaging the plate. This is a STATUTORY band, not an EU band —
+        Türkiye is not an EU member and the regulation does not reference the
+        EU specification. Descriptions of it as a "Euroband" are a comparison
+        and are not repeated here as a claim. The commonly-cited 1996
+        introduction date is tertiary and is NOT asserted.
+      material: >-
+        Madde 53 (STILL IN FORCE): aluminium 0.97 mm, DIN 1745, AL 99,5 F11
+        half-hard; tensile 100-150 N/mm; elongation >= 6%. Characters and
+        border embossed 1-3 mm; corners radiused 10 mm; border width 5 mm.
+      security: >-
+        Madde 56 final paragraphs: reflective foil printed with repeating
+        crescent-and-star and "TR" security marks (Ek:12/U) fitting a 10x10 mm
+        area and repeating every 100 mm horizontally / 50 mm vertically,
+        designed to be visible from ~1.8 m at a 30 degree angle and
+        deliberately NOT visible closer than 1 m or beyond 4 m (Ek:12/Y).
+        Plastic and cardboard plates are exempt.
+      rear_differs: true
+      rear_differs_note: >-
+        Madde 53/b: front 11x52 cm; rear 11x52 OR 21x32 cm. The rear may
+        legitimately be the taller two-line format while the front is not.
+      mounting: >-
+        Madde 54 (repealed 2025-11-04): motorcycles/mopeds one plate, rear,
+        20-150 cm above ground; trailers/semi-trailers one, rear, 30-120 cm;
+        all other motor vehicles two (front and rear), 30-120 cm; tractors two,
+        30-400 cm.
+    region_encoding: none
+    region_encoding_mechanism: >-
+      The leading two digits are the province (il) code, placed after the blue
+      (TR) box. `none` here means NO TABLE SHIPPED, not "no geography encoded":
+      Madde 55 ¶2 delegates the list to EGM and no official list was opened, so
+      the mapping is V2. See header fact 4 for why the range is not encoded.
+    notes: >-
+      The ordinary Turkish mark, six statutory shapes, one design era.
+    sources:
+      - "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # KTY Madde 55 para 1 six-group enumeration; para 2 EGM sequential allotment; Madde 57 district letter groups; Madde 53 dimensions/material; Madde 56 colours and security foil — pre-repeal consolidated text, accessed 2026-09-12"
+      - "https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # current consolidated KTY confirming Maddeler 54-59 now read (Mulga:RG-4/11/2025-33067) and that Madde 53 survives — accessed 2026-09-12"
+      - "https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2025/11/20251104-4.htm  # the repealing regulation, RG 4/11/2025 sayi 33067, MADDE 4 and MADDE 5 — accessed 2026-09-12"
+      - "https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.5.2918.pdf  # Kanun 2918 Madde 21 plate mandatory, Madde 26 distinguishing marks, Madde 28 state vehicles differ in colour — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: tr-diplomatic-cd-cm
+    class: diplomatic
+    categories: [car, van]
+    period: { start: 2007 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-instrument
+    period_note: >-
+      2007 = RG-18/05/2007-26526, the amendment that set the CD/CM colour rule
+      in Madde 56. The groups themselves are older; this is the date of the
+      instrument that governs the entry, not a first-issue date.
+    legal_basis_note: "Maddeler 55, 56 and 58 all repealed 2025-11-04 (RG 33067)."
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99 CD 9999"
+      regex: '\A\d{2} ?C[DM] ?\d{4}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "white ground (Madde 56) — no hex asserted (V3)"
+      foreground_note: "green characters"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Embassy staff enjoying diplomatic immunity, letter groups CD and CM
+      (Madde 55 para 4). The four-digit width is the regulation's OWN range
+      text in Madde 58: leased-vehicle allocations run CD 0001-CD 9999 and
+      CM 0001-CM 9999, on written proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
+      with Ministry of Interior approval, on a reciprocity basis, and are
+      returned at expiry. Those are statutory RANGES, not observed plates.
+      CORRECTION OF RECORD: an earlier draft of this file gave three digits
+      here on tertiary evidence. The statute says four.
+    sources:
+      - "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # Madde 55 para 4 CD/CM groups; Madde 56 white ground green characters as amended RG-18/05/2007-26526; Madde 58 the CD/CM 0001-9999 leased-vehicle ranges — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: tr-consular-cc-cg
+    class: consular
+    categories: [car, van]
+    period: { start: 2007 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-instrument
+    legal_basis_note: "Maddeler 55, 56 and 58 all repealed 2025-11-04 (RG 33067)."
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99 CC 9999"
+      regex: '\A\d{2} ?C[CG] ?\d{4}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "green ground (Madde 56) — no hex asserted (V3)"
+      foreground_note: "white characters"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Consulate-general staff, letter groups CC and CG. The colour polarity is
+      the deliberate INVERSE of the diplomatic series above — white on green
+      here, green on white there — and both are verbatim in the Madde 56 table,
+      which is why this file states an asymmetry it would otherwise suspect of
+      being a transcription error. Four-digit width from the Madde 58 ranges
+      CC 0001-CC 9999 and CG 0001-CG 9999.
+    sources:
+      - "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # Madde 55 para 4 CC/CG groups; Madde 56 green ground white characters; Madde 58 CC/CG 0001-9999 ranges — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: tr-foreigner-ma-mz
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van]
+    period: { start: 2000 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-instrument
+    period_note: "RG-02/11/2000-24218, the amendment carrying the MA-MZ entry in the Madde 56 colour table."
+    legal_basis_note: "Maddeler 55 and 56 repealed 2025-11-04 (RG 33067)."
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99 ML 9999"
+      regex: '\A\d{2} ?M[A-Z] ?\d{3,4}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "white ground — the SAME colours as an ordinary plate (Madde 56); no hex asserted (V3)"
+      foreground_note: "black characters"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Vehicles of foreigners resident abroad and temporarily in Türkiye, letter
+      groups MA to MZ (Madde 55 para 4). Classed `standard` rather than given a
+      class of its own because it is an ordinary white/black plate drawn from a
+      reserved letter block, not a distinct design. The digit width is NOT
+      stated for this group, so the regex admits the three- and four-figure
+      widths the Madde 55 two-letter shapes allow, and no more. Overlaps
+      tr-standard-2014 by construction: an MA-MZ plate IS a two-letter standard
+      shape, and a consumer matching both is seeing the truth, not a conflict.
+    sources:
+      - "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # Madde 55 para 4 MA-MZ group; Madde 56 white/black as amended RG-02/11/2000-24218 — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: tr-temporary-g
+    class: temporary
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2014 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force
+    legal_basis_note: "Maddeler 55 and 56 repealed 2025-11-04 (RG 33067)."
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99 G 9999"
+      regex: '\A\d{2} ?G ?\d{4}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "yellow ground (Madde 56, 'geçici') — no hex asserted (V3)"
+      foreground_note: "black characters"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Temporary traffic document (geçici trafik belgesi), general case — the G
+      group plus four figures, for every temporary purpose other than trial and
+      demonstration. Distinct from tr-temporary-t, which covers trial and
+      demonstration vehicles only. Plates issued for six days or fewer may be
+      plastic or cardboard and then additionally carry a 2 cm white band
+      running top-left to bottom-right (Madde 53, still in force).
+      The G is a plain literal, not the pattern DSL's letter token; it needs no
+      escape because the escape exists only for the tokens `9` and `L` (owner
+      ruling 2026-08-02).
+    sources:
+      - "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # Madde 55 para 4 G group four figures; Madde 56 yellow/black for gecici; Madde 53 plastic/cardboard six-day plates and the 2 cm diagonal band — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: tr-temporary-t
+    class: temporary
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2014 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force
+    legal_basis_note: "Maddeler 55 and 56 repealed 2025-11-04 (RG 33067)."
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99 T 9999"
+      regex: '\A\d{2} ?T ?\d{4}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "yellow ground (Madde 56, 'geçici') — no hex asserted (V3)"
+      foreground_note: "black characters"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Temporary traffic document for TRIAL AND DEMONSTRATION vehicles
+      specifically — the T group plus four figures. Separated from
+      tr-temporary-g because the regulation separates them, and because the
+      distinction is the one a consumer actually wants: a T plate marks a
+      vehicle being tested or demonstrated, not merely one awaiting
+      registration.
+      NOT A TAXI SERIES. The widely-repeated "T = taksi" reading, and the
+      Istanbul TAA-TKZ taxi block, appear NOWHERE in the KTY; see the file's
+      commercial-plate note under tr-standard-2014's sources and V5.
+    sources:
+      - "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # Madde 55 para 4 T group, deneme ve teshir, four figures; Madde 56 yellow/black — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: tr-temporary-customs-gmr
+    class: temporary
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2014 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force
+    legal_basis_note: "Maddeler 55 and 56 repealed 2025-11-04 (RG 33067)."
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99 GMR 999"
+      regex: '\A\d{2} ?GMR ?\d{3}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "green ground (Madde 56, 'geçici gümrük') — no hex asserted (V3)"
+      foreground_note: "red characters"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Temporary CUSTOMS plates — GMR plus three figures, and the only plate in
+      the Turkish table printed red-on-green. A third temporary series, kept
+      separate from both tr-temporary-g and tr-temporary-t because its colour
+      pair and its letter group both differ. Customs temporary plates may be
+      plastic or cardboard (Madde 53) and then carry the 2 cm diagonal band.
+    sources:
+      - "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # Madde 55 para 4 GMR group three figures; Madde 56 green ground red characters for gecici gumruk — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: tr-jandarma-2017
+    class: military
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2017 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-instrument
+    period_note: >-
+      The Jandarma and Sahil Güvenlik entries were ADDED to Madde 55 para 4 and
+      the Madde 56 colour table by RG-31/3/2017-30024. That is a real birth
+      date for the series, not merely the governing instrument — and it is 2017,
+      correcting the 2018 date that circulates in tertiary sources.
+    legal_basis_note: "Maddeler 55 and 56 repealed 2025-11-04 (RG 33067)."
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99 JLL 999"
+      regex: '\A\d{2} ?J[A-Z]{2} ?\d{3}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "blue ground (Madde 56) — no hex asserted (V3)"
+      foreground_note: "white characters"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı — letter groups JAA to JZZ plus three figures.
+      Classed `military` because the Jandarma is a gendarmerie under military
+      command structure; it shares the blue/white colour pair with the police
+      and the Sahil Güvenlik.
+    sources:
+      - "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # Madde 55 para 4 JAA-JZZ added by RG-31/3/2017-30024; Madde 56 blue/white — accessed 2026-09-12"
+
+  - id: tr-coastguard-sgh-2017
+    class: military
+    categories: [car, van, truck]
+    period: { start: 2017 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-instrument
+    legal_basis_note: "Maddeler 55 and 56 repealed 2025-11-04 (RG 33067)."
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99 SGH 999"
+      regex: '\A\d{2} ?SGH ?\d{3}\z'
+    design:
+      background_note: "blue ground (Madde 56) — no hex asserted (V3)"
+      foreground_note: "white characters"
+    region_encoding: none
+    notes: >-
+      Sahil Güvenlik Komutanlığı (Coast Guard) — the fixed group SGH plus three
+      figures, added by the same 2017 amendment as the Jandarma series. A
+      separate series from tr-jandarma-2017 because the letter group is a fixed
+      literal rather than a range, even though colour and period coincide.
+    sources:
+      - "https://web.archive.org/web/20250108225320/https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/yonetmelik/7.5.8182.pdf  # Madde 55 para 4 SGH added by RG-31/3/2017-30024; Madde 56 blue/white — accessed 2026-09-12"

data/data/plates/ua.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ua.yml — Ukraine (PRD-PLATES gate L3).
+# plates/ua.yml — Ukraine (the plates spec gate L3).
 #
 # EVERY type, dimension, colour, character-count, letter-set and class claim in
 # this file is read from the CONSOLIDATED TEXT of the governing instrument on
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 # 2. HOW THAT IS MODELLED HERE, AND WHY. The lint's pattern DSL generates Latin
 #    A–Z for its `L` token, so a `format.regex` written over Cyrillic could
 #    never round-trip. This file therefore does NOT declare a per-jurisdiction
-#    `serial_alphabet:` (PRD-PLATES §2.6 decision 2): every `pattern`, `regex`
+#    `serial_alphabet:` (the plates spec §2.6 decision 2): every `pattern`, `regex`
 #    and `regex_strict` here is written in the MACHINE-READABLE LATIN
 #    TRANSLITERATION of the printed glyphs — which is also what OCR, the
 #    Vienna-Convention rationale for the 12-letter restriction, and every
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 #   transliterated Cyrillic letters, the Додаток 5 series blocks, the Додаток 6
 #   numeric code set — which `regex` cannot carry.
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES §2.6): a Ukrainian plate prints NO separator
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec §2.6): a Ukrainian plate prints NO separator
 # glyph. Додаток 3 fixes character HEIGHTS in millimetres and the ЄДИНІ ЗРАЗКИ
 # drawings fix the group gaps; no provision of the Вимоги names a separator
 # character. The space in every `pattern` here is the conventional textual
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ series:
       UA band it did not previously carry. Before that these plates were WHITE
       with black characters — see ua-diplomatic-cdp-2021. The country code is
       allocated by the ГДІП, not by МВС; the per-country table is a decode
-      table for gate L4 and is deliberately not modelled here (PRD-PLATES §2.5).
+      table for gate L4 and is deliberately not modelled here (the plates spec §2.5).
 
   - id: ua-consular-cc-2025
     class: consular
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ series:
     categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
     period: { start: 2000 }
     period_evidence: enabling-instrument
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): the content of a type-7 plate is chosen by
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): the content of a type-7 plate is chosen by
     # the owner within limits that two instruments state DIFFERENTLY — постанова
     # КМУ № 1081 says «від трьох до восьми символів» while Додаток 2 Таблиця 4
     # of the Вимоги gives «2-8» letters and «2 (7)» digits. The regex is the
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ series:
     categories: [tractor, machine]
     period: { start: 2021 }
     period_evidence: enabling-instrument
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): the instrument contradicts itself on the
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): the instrument contradicts itself on the
     # letter count. Розділ III п. 6 says the letter «Т» is placed «ліворуч від
     # літеросполуки, що позначає адміністративно-територіальну належність» —
     # T plus a two-letter region pair, i.e. three letters — while Додаток 2
@@ -1163,7 +1163,7 @@ series:
     categories: [car, van, truck, bus, trailer, machine]
     period: { start: 2004 }
     period_evidence: enabling-instrument
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): Розділ III п. 9 says these plates use
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): Розділ III п. 9 says these plates use
     # «літери української абетки» WITHOUT the homoglyph restriction, so the
     # letter may be one of Ukrainian's non-Latin letters (Г, Ф, Ч, Ю, Я ...)
     # that this dataset's Latin-transliterated regex cannot express. A match on
@@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ series:
       include the two-digit region code printed small under the state arms, so
       the number a human reads off the plate is four digits. The emblem is a
       presidential-decree device and is rendered as a neutral placeholder per
-      PRD-PLATES §3 until its own licensing is affirmatively cleared.
+      the plates spec §3 until its own licensing is affirmatively cleared.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # TYPES 13-17 — uniformed state services. One designation letter, a region
@@ -1472,7 +1472,7 @@ series:
     categories: [car, van, truck, bus, trailer, machine]
     period: { start: 2025 }
     period_evidence: enabling-instrument
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): Додаток 2 Таблиця 6 gives type 18 five
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): Додаток 2 Таблиця 6 gives type 18 five
     # digits and one letter, and Розділ III п. 1 names the letters «D», «С»,
     # «О» — but nothing in the instrument states whether the letter leads or
     # trails the digits, and type 18 is three months old with no published

data/data/plates/us-ak.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ak.yml — Alaska (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group: pacific).
+# plates/us-ak.yml — Alaska (the plates spec gate L2, group: pacific).
 #
 # THE SOURCING PROBLEM IN THIS FILE, STATED FIRST BECAUSE IT SHAPES EVERY
 # PERIOD CLAIM BELOW. Alaska's statutes are served by the Legislature's BASIS
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   of dmv.alaska.gov (2025-09-14 snapshot for the plate catalogue).
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4/§7.1.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4/§7.1.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: asserted
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ artwork_risk:
   countervailing: >-
     The FORMAT, CLASS, GEOMETRY and PERIOD facts in this file come from the
     ALASKA STATUTES, which are an EDICT OF GOVERNMENT and public domain at
-    every level regardless of the website footer (PRD-PLATES §4). The
+    every level regardless of the website footer (the plates spec §4). The
     assertion bites on the artwork — the Kodiak bear, the state flag, the
     fireweed-and-Denali art plate — not on the facts.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies without exception in Alaska,
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies without exception in Alaska,
     and to more of the plate than usual: the STATE FLAG (the Big Dipper and
     Polaris) is screened into the centre of the standard base and is therefore
     not an emblem in a corner but the plate's central graphic. Render
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ us_standards:
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Display rules. THE STATUTE AND THE AGENCY DISAGREE, and the disagreement is
-# recorded rather than averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+# recorded rather than averaged (the plates spec §5.3).
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 display_rules:
   agency_current: "Alaska DMV, its own words, 2026: 'ONE PLATE: Alaska statute AS 28.10.171 requires you to display one license plate on the back of all passenger vehicles, motorcycles, motorhomes, trucks, vans, trailers, and APV's. For Commercial vehicles that weigh over 10,001 pounds the plate is required to be displayed on the front of the vehicle. A month and year tab must be displayed on the plate.'"
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/2025id_/https://dmv.alaska.gov/vehicle-services/license-plates/  # the DMV's own catalogue names this design 'Standard Gold', issued at no charge with registration, $5 replacement, $30 if personalized"
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title28/Chapter10/Section161.htm  # AS 28.10.161 (reproduction, current through December 2007): (b)(2)-(4) the registration number, the state name 'which may be abbreviated', the year or expiration and the sticker rule; (c) the department may not adopt a new or altered passenger plate unless it substantially embodies the section"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alaska  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the ABC 123 format adopted in 1976, the Last Frontier base's reported continuous issuance since 1 January 2010, the I/O/Q exclusion, the reported serial ranges and the Irwin-Hodson manufacture. None asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alaska  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the ABC 123 format adopted in 1976, the Last Frontier base's reported continuous issuance since 1 January 2010, the I/O/Q exclusion, the reported serial ranges and the Irwin-Hodson manufacture. None asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       ALASKA'S CURRENT STANDARD SERIES. PERIOD CAVEAT, AND IT IS A LARGE ONE:
       `start: 2026` is the year of the instruments read and is an UPPER BOUND,
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ series:
       about law rather than about a collector's observation. THE END IS NOT
       SOURCED, which is why this entry uses `ended: true` with
       `year_end_min: 2009` rather than a hard `end:` — the schema's
-      known-over-undated shape (PRD-PLATES §2.2), earning its keep exactly as
+      known-over-undated shape (the plates spec §2.2), earning its keep exactly as
       predicted. The series is known to be over, because Alaska visibly issues
       the gold Last Frontier base today; 2009 is the floor because the
       commemoration was of a 2009 anniversary and the reported end is
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alaska  # LOCATOR ONLY: introduced 7 May 2015; based on the 1976-81 bear base; awarded ALPCA Plate of the Year 2015; reported J and M serial blocks"
     notes: >-
       ALASKA RUNS TWO STANDARD BASES AT ONCE, AT THE SAME PRICE, AND THAT IS
-      THE MODELLING POINT. PRD-PLATES §2.2 says overlapping series are legal
+      THE MODELLING POINT. The plates spec §2.2 says overlapping series are legal
       where the notes distinguish them because parallel issuance is real; the
       Grizzly Bear plate is the cleanest US example found — not old stock
       running on, but a deliberate second no-cost standard design offered
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ series:
           PRINTED-FORM FACT AND IT IS WHY THIS SERIES' REGEX HAS NO OPTIONAL
           SEPARATOR while the standard series' does. An authority stating that
           the sequential plate's printed gap disappears on the vanity plate is
-          precisely the kind of detail PRD-PLATES §2.6 exists to capture, and
+          precisely the kind of detail the plates spec §2.6 exists to capture, and
           precisely the kind a separator-forgiving consumer would otherwise
           have to guess at.
       refusal_rule: "The DMV cites 2 AAC 92.120: 'DMV will not issue personalized plates that display symbols in a combination that is demeaning towards a group of people, or that is otherwise a vulgar, violent, or criminal reference or term'. It also operates a RECALL: 'DMV will immediately investigate the license plate and if necessary, recall the license plate.' THE REGULATION'S OWN TEXT WAS NOT FETCHED (recorded gap — the Alaska Administrative Code shares the akleg BASIS access problem); the DMV's paraphrase is what is cited."
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ series:
       recording even though the dataset carries formats and never plates.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Alaska is small enough
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. Alaska is small enough
   # that the DMV's own catalogue IS the register, so this index is ENUMERATED
   # from the agency rather than counted from a secondary source.
   # =========================================================================
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ series:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
-      note: "One design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here. NOTE THE ARTIST-COPYRIGHT LAYER on the Celebrating the Arts designs — see artwork_risk.emblem_rule."
+      note: "One design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here. NOTE THE ARTIST-COPYRIGHT LAYER on the Celebrating the Arts designs — see artwork_risk.emblem_rule."
     program_index:
       count_official: null
       count_official_note: >-