CORE INTERNATIONAL CRIMES IN TURKISH CRIMINAL LAW AND THE ROME STATUTE

Year 2018, Volume: 22 Issue: 2, 111 - 136, 16.02.2019

Zeynep Erhan

Abstract

By virtue of the Europeanisation process, Turkey has carried out some
legal reforms to its domestic law with the aim of fulfi lling the requirements to join
the European Union (EU). The Turkish Penal Code (TPC) includes the crime of
genocide, as well as crimes against humanity, since 2004. Nonetheless, Turkey has
not incorporated all the crimes listed in the Rome Statute into domestic law. Thus, this
paper will be looking at the inconsistencies between the TPC and the Rome Statute
from a state interest point of view by scrutinising the constitutive eff ect of the EU and
the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Turkey. Within the scope of this focus,
it will be shown how the constitutive eff ects of the ICC and the EU have infl uenced
Turkey. The second focus will be to shed light on the question of how Turkey’s selfinterest was refl ected in forming the new TPC and during the negotiation process for
the Rome Statute. Although the TPC was adopted after the Rome Statute, the question
remains as to why Turkey did not embrace all international crimes as defi ned in the
Rome Statute. 

Keywords

Turkish penal code, Rome Statute, comparative analysis, state interest, Europeanisation process

TÜRK CEZA KANUNU VE ROMA STATÜSÜNDE DÜZENLENEN ULUSLARARASI SUÇLARA YÖNELİK ULUSLARARASI YARGI ORGANLARININ KARARLARI IŞIĞINDA KARŞILAŞTIRMALI ANALİZ

Abstract

Türkiye, Avrupa Birliğine katılma sürecinin bir sonucu olarak, iç
hukukunda bazı reformlar yapmıştır. Avrupa Birliğine uyum süreci ile birlikte, soykırım
suçu ve insanlığa karşı suçlar, 2004 yılı itibariyle Türk Ceza Kanunu kapsamına
alınmıştır. Bu çalışma, Türk Ceza Kanunu ile Roma Statüsü’nde düzenlenen
uluslararası suçlar arasındaki farkları, Avrupa birliğine ve mahkemeye taraf
olma sürecinin Türkiye üzerindeki etkilerini temel alarak analiz etmektedir. Farlılıklara
yönelik yapılan karşılaştırmalı analizde, Uluslararası yargı organlarının bu
suçları yorumlama biçimi detaylı bir biçimde gözden geçirilmektedir. Bu süreçte
yapılan iç hukuk düzenlemelerine ve Roma Statüsünün oluşum sürecindeki
tartışmalara, Türkiye’nin çıkarları olgusunun ne yönde etki ettiği
tartışılmaktadır. Sonuç olarak, Türkiye’nin neden Roma Statüsünde yer alan tüm
suçlara yer vermediği ve yer verdiği suçları neden farklı şekilde düzenlediği
analiz edilmektedir.

Keywords

Türk Ceza Kanunu, Roma Statüsü, karşılaştırmalı analiz, devlet çıkarları, Avrupa Birliğine uyum süreci

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