Türkiye
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary republican democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- November 7, 1982, amended several times, the last in 2007, following a popular referendum
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- inspired by various European systems
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Constitutional Court, High Court of Appeal, Council of State
RELIGIONS
99.8% Muslims
From the country
- MAY 21, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem at a government...
Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem at a government leaders' meeting proposed alternatives allowing Kurdish language broadcasting and the lifting of the death penalty amid Turkish efforts to meet EU membership criteria
- MAY 16, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Sami Selcuk, the chairman of the supreme court of appeals,...
Sami Selcuk, the chairman of the supreme court of appeals, addressing a conference on "State and Democracy," in Kocaeli University, said that there is no right reason that can justify death penalty and it has to be abolished
- MAY 15, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
State Minister Nejat Arseven said that the Finnish...
State Minister Nejat Arseven said that the Finnish parliamentary delegation and he had evaluated the developments in Turkey's European Union (EU) candidacy process, adding, "parliamentarians stated that they would support Turkey's EU membership
- MAY 9, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Volkan Vural, the Secretary General for the European...
Volkan Vural, the Secretary General for the European Union (EU), said that they handled EU as a whole and speaking at a conference on future of Europe, he said, he believed that abolition of capital punishment from Turkish legal system was not a difficult
- MAY 7, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
A Turkish security court sentenced to death three Kurdish...
A Turkish security court sentenced to death three Kurdish separatists for the 1994 murder of an Islamist politician
- MAY 6, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The European Union's recent decision to add the PKK...
The European Union's recent decision to add the PKK and DHKP-C to its revised list of terrorist organizations had boosted Turkey's confidence in the Union and also encouraged Turkish leaders and diplomats to take more steps for democratization and improve
- APRIL 26, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Two of the 23 people accused of taking part in various...
Two of the 23 people accused of taking part in various criminal activities, including the murder of Adana Chief Prosecutor Ethem Erkin, his bodyguard and Nationalist Action Party Kartal district organization chairman Nihat Uygun for the illegal TIKB [The
- APRIL 23, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Mesut Yilmaz, ANAP [Motherland Party] leader and deputy...
Mesut Yilmaz, ANAP [Motherland Party] leader and deputy prime minister, has said that a conciliation excluding coalition partner MHP [Nationalist Action Party] will not be sought on issues other than capital punishment
- APRIL 19, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Ankara State Security Court (DGM) no:1 sentenced three...
Ankara State Security Court (DGM) no:1 sentenced three terrorists of the Hezbollah organization to death penalty
- APRIL 19, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Parliament's justice commission passes a draft law...
Parliament's justice commission passes a draft law on the death penalty that would abolish capital punishment except in times of war or the threat of war or for crimes of terrorism
- APRIL 16, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
A group of associations of "Eastern Turkestan" protested...
A group of associations of "Eastern Turkestan" protested [against] Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's visit in Ankara
- APRIL 6, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Ankara State Security Court [DGM] of the First...
The Ankara State Security Court [DGM] of the First Instance sentenced two men to death and a third to a prison term of 20 years for their role in the Sivas incidents [when 37 people were killed during an Alevi cultural festival]