CORE INTERNATIONAL CRIMES IN TURKISH CRIMINAL LAW AND THE ROME STATUTE
Öz
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.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Turkish penal code,Rome Statute,comparative analysis,state interest,Europeanisation process
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