Bribery in Turkish Criminal Law

Bribery is an unfair advantage gained due to the position of public officials: referring to Turkish Penal Code taking bribes or giving bribes is contrary to the law and shall be penalized. Bribery offense has been established 'against the public administration' in the Criminal Code. Since year 2000, Turkish legislators started to penalize 'international bribery'. The crime will be prosecuted and punished by criminal law in Turkey if the perpetrators of international bribery. victims or other elements have relation to Turkey or to a Turkish citizen or to a Turkish institution. In practice, these crimes are not followed meticulously, and this opens the road to the most important social problems of Turkish public life. Turkey has accepted international conventions in this field improving the legislation, even though this type of offence started to become more common, while this crime is a serious deterioration of fundamental moral values, which does not suit to a modern state.