THE OTHER LAWS

Administrative Law :

Administrative law is the branch of particularly concerned with the administrative machinery of government. The content of it is different from that of Anglo-American administrative law: It comprises a wide range of topics such as public personnel administration, police power, administrative acts, actions and contracts, liability of the state and its agents, central and local administration, judicial control of Administration, public property, taxation, planning and natural sources.

Law Of Person :

Law exists to regulate the relations of persons , and such persons are the subjects of rights and duties imposed and given by law. Some statements that Turkish Law stipulated are as below:

According to the Civil Code, the personality of human being starts at the moment of birth and ends at death.
The facts of birth, marital status and the sex of a person, children and religious denomination are registered in the Registries of Birth, Death and Marriage, which are kept by the state.
Every person has a domicile which is under constitutional protection. Every person must have a domicile and a person may have only one domicile.
Persons are legally entitled to protect their personalities.

Familly Law :

The Turkish Civil Code modeled on the Swiss Civil Code. The traditional family in Turkey is a rural, large family. Turkey’s industrialization and internal immigration from rural areas to large cities have, however, tended to cause a change towards the small, nuclear family. Furthermore, the Code became partly insufficient to answer the needs of modern developments and changing new values such as equal treatment of the sexes and elimination of distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate children. Threfore, The Court Of Cassation and The Constitutional Court try to fill the statutory gap by giving a contemporary interpretation to the provisions of the Civil Code. The Civil Code regulates engagement, marriage, matrimonial property system, divorce and judicial separation principles and also parent and child subjects.

Law Of Obligations :

Three different kinds of obligations are the general subjects of the Turkish Code of Obligations :

1. A person may be under an obligation because of signing a contract;
2. He may commit a tortious act and therefore may be under an obligation to pay damages to another person.
3. He may have been unjustly enriched, and, as a result, be under an obligation to pay the losses of another party.

Criminal Code :

The Turkish Criminal Code, which is based almost entirely on the Italian Criminal Code of 1889, adopted by Turkey in 1926. This Code has been amended many times, and more than half of its articles have been changed.The Code specifies most crimes and contains the general principles of Turkish criminal law which are applicable to all criminal matters, unless another statute specifically provides otherwise. The general principles are in Book One; the crimes are specified in Boks Two and Three. There are two categories of crimes: felonies and misdemeanours.
In addition to the Criminal Code, there are many penal statutes which contain specific crimes and regulate special fields of criminal law such as Military Penal Code. Many civil laws also prescribe penalties for certain criminals acts.