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The Concurrence of Offences in Turkish Criminal Law
(Türk Ceza Hukukunda Suçların Birleşmesi)
Abstract
This work was written in Turkish. The summary on this page is a translation; the citation gives the original title in parentheses.
The first point to be made on the concurrence of offences is that the principle in this area is the cumulation of penalties. Accordingly, the cumulation of penalties is the rule and the concurrence of offences the exception. Indeed, this is expressed in the report of the Justice Committee of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM) on the Turkish Criminal Code No. 5237 (TCK) as “there are as many offences as there are acts, and as many penalties as there are offences”. The concurrence of offences essentially occurs in two forms: “ideal concurrence” and the “successive offence”.
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