Abstract
The right to engage in syndical activities is regulated in international conventions and in Turkish Constitution among social and economic rights. Today, employers, as well as workers, have the right to engage in syndical activities. In Turkish law, the membership of individuals to syndicates, individual syndical rights and the scope of the activities of syndicates are regulated in the Law No. 6356 and the Law No. 4688. In order to protect individual and collective syndical rights in the relevant legislation through criminal law, the crime of "preventing of use of syndical rights" is regulated in the Turkish Criminal Law (art. 118). In the first paragraph of the provision, threatening or coercing persons to force them not to exercise their union rights is regulated as a crime. In the second paragraph, forcibly or unlawfully preventing the activities of the syndicate is regulated as a crime. In art. 118, there are two crimes that are complement to each other but differ from each other in terms of legal issues, material elements and victims.