A Turkish criminal lawyer is a lawyer who defends people who commit crimes defined in the Turkish Penal Code. It not only defends the accused, but also tries to protect the rights of those who have been harmed by the crime. Basically, it carries out its duty from the investigation stage to the end of the trial stage. After the trial, he/she also acts as a criminal lawyer during execution. Criminal law requires expertise. Expertise in criminal law is required for every type of crime. For example, fraud, drug crimes, etc. Criminal cases are irreversible cases. Therefore, litigation must be handled with care. Persons who will work with criminal lawyers should work with lawyers who are experts in crime types.
What Does a Turkish Criminal Lawyer Do?
Criminal lawyers in Turkey are primarily charged with defending those who commit crimes defined in the Turkish Penal Code. The main duty of the Turkish criminal lawyer is to enable the accused to exercise his rights given by law and case law. His duty continues from the beginning of the investigation until the finalization of the verdict. Turkish criminal lawyer also works in the execution phase after the verdict is finalized.
Whose Cases Does the Turkish Criminal Lawyer Hear?
Various crime types are defined in the Turkish Penal Code No. 5237. Such as killing, wounding, sexual offenses, fraud, drug manufacture or use. Penal provisions may also be foreseen in other laws. Penal provisions are those that envisage imprisonment or a judicial fine as a result of committing a crime. The Turkish criminal lawyer takes part in two ways in the cases opened with the commission of the crime;
- First of all, he/she carries out the duty of defense of the accused who is predicted to have committed the crime. So he/she is defender of the accused. The public prosecutor submits the indictment to the criminal court that the accused has committed a crime. This is how the trial begins and the court decides on the accused. The Turkish criminal lawyer provides legal assistance to the accused in these processes.
- The other duty is related to the damage or liability caused by the commission of the crime. Criminal lawyer acts as the representative of the person who has been harmed by the crime and the person responsible for the property. Turkish criminal lawyers reveal their grievances by observing the rights of these people.
Which Cases Does the Turkish Criminal Lawyer Hear?
Before a criminal case is opened, the Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor initiates an investigation on behalf of the public. At the end of the investigation carried out on suspicion of committing the crime;
- An indictment will be issued, or
- A decision of non-prosecution will be given.
Criminal proceedings will begin with the acceptance of the indictment. This trial is due to penalties or other reasons;
- In high criminal courts,
- In criminal courts of first instance,
- In criminal judgeships of peace or
- It is seen in special criminal courts.
Turkish criminal lawyer carries out the following criminal cases in these courts as the defendant's lawyer or the participant's attorney;
- Genocide
- Crimes against humanity
- Migrant smuggling
- Human trafficking
- Willful killing
- Suicide orientation
- Reckless killing
- Intentional injury
- Injury by negligence
- Experiment on human
- Organ or tissue trade
- Torture
- Torment
- Abandonment
- Failure to comply with assistance or notification obligation
- Abortion
- Desexualization
- Sexual assault
- Child sexual abuse
- Sexual intercourse with a minor
- Sexual harassment
- Threat
- Blackmail
- Force
- Deprivation of liberty of the person
- Denial of the right to education and training
- Denial of the right to benefit from public services
- Preventing the exercise of political rights
- Preventing the use of freedom of belief, thought and opinion
- Violation of the immunity of residence
- Violation of freedom of work
- Preventing the use of union rights
- Unfair search
- Preventing the use of the right to petition
- Hate and discrimination
- Disturbing individuals’ peace and harmony
- Blocking of communication
- Insult
- Insulting one's memory
- Violation of the confidentiality of communication
- Listening and recording conversations between people
- Violation of the privacy of private life
- Recording of personal data
- Unlawfully giving or obtaining data
- Do not destroy data
- Theft
- Loot
- Damage to property
- Damage to places of worship and cemeteries
- Rape where it has no right
- Abuse of trust
- Using the bill received for collateral even though the debt is paid
- Fraud
- Savings on lost or accidentally recovered goods
- Fraudulent bankruptcy
- Negligent bankruptcy
- Benefit fraud
- False information about the company or cooperatives
- Purchase or acceptance of criminal goods
- Intentional endangerment of general safety
- Endangering the general security by negligence
- Radiation emission
- Causing an explosion with atomic energy
- Unauthorized possession or exchange of dangerous goods
- Violation of care and supervision obligation on the mentally ill
- Non-compliance with safety rules regarding construction and demolition
- Release of the animal in a dangerous way
- Not placing signs and obstacles
- Do not endanger traffic safety
- Endangering traffic safety by negligence
- Intentional pollution of the environment
- Pollution of the environment by negligence
- Causing high noise
- Cause zoning pollution
- Adding toxic substance
- Trade in spoiled or modified food and medication
- Making or selling medication in a way that endanger people's life and health
- Manufacturing and trading of drugs or stimulants
- Facilitating the use of drugs or stimulants
- Buying, accepting or possessing drugs or stimulants for use, or using drugs or stimulants
- Manufacturing and trading of toxic substances
- Supply of hazardous materials for health
- Non-compliance with the measures regarding communicable diseases
- Irregular burial
- Counterfeit money
- Forgery of precious stamp
- Tools for making money and precious stamps
- Forgery of seal
- Unsealing
- The official document forgery
- Corrupt, destroy or hide official document
- False statement in the preparation of the official document
- Forgery of private document
- Corrupt, destroy or hide a private document
- Misuse of exposed signature
- Threat to create fear and panic among the public.
- Provocation to commit a crime
- Praising the crime and the criminal
- Provoking or humiliating the public to hatred and enmity
- Provocation to disobey the law
- Abuse of religious services while on duty
- Establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime
- Hijacking or detention of means of transport
- Occupation of fixed platforms in the continental shelf or exclusive economic zone
- Indecent acts
- Obscenity
- Prostitution
- Providing space and opportunity for gambling
- Begging
- Multiple marriages, fraudulent marriages, religious ceremonies
- Changing the child's lineage
- ill-treatment
- Violation of obligation arising from family law
- Child abduction and detention
- Tender rigging
- Using fraud or trickery in the fulfillment of execution
- Influencing prices
- Causing a lack of public essentials
- Disclosure of information or documents qualified as trade secrets, banking secrets or customer secrets
- Avoidance of selling goods or services
- Usury
- Entering the information system
- Blocking, corrupting, destroying or modifying the information system
- Misuse of debit or credit cards
- Forbidden devices or programs
- Embezzlement
- Extortion
- Negligence of audit duty
- Bribery
- Influence trade
- Exceeding the limit on the authority to use force
- Misconduct
- Disclosure of the secret of the task
- Selling goods or services to another by taking advantage of the influence of public office
- Resignation or non-performance of public service
- Irregular disposition on people's property
- Irregular undertaking of public office
- Improper use of special signs and clothing
- Resisting not to do the task
- Using tools and equipment belonging to public service in crime
- Slander
- Using someone else's identity or identity information
- Assuming a crime
- Criminal fabrication
- False testimony
- Perjury
- False expertise and interpreting
- Attempting to influence a judge, expert or witness
- Not reporting the crime
- Destroying, concealing or altering criminal evidence
- Laundering of criminal assets
- Nepotism
- Failure to report evidence of arrests, convicts or crimes
- Violation of privacy
- Recording of sound or images
- Genital examination
- Attempt to influence judicial proceedings
- Abuse of guard duty
- Confiscation and deterioration of officially delivered goods
- Entering a penitentiary institution or detention house on behalf of someone else
- Escape of the convict or detainee
- Allowing for escape
- Guard's misconduct
- Revolt of convicts or detainees
- Bringing prohibited items to the penitentiary institution or prison
- Preventing the exercise of rights and feeding
And crimes against the constitution and the state
We provide our client with result oriented services with our expert attorneys acting as attorneys at law and legal counsellors in regard of preparation of necessary petitions and submission of these to relevant authorities, being present during statement takings, acting as attorneys at law for defendant and intervening parties, filing objections against objectionable decisions against the favour, and referring to appeal venues in favour of the defendant or intervening parties.