Turkey

Criminal Code

FIRST VOLUME
General Provisions

FIRST CHAPTER
Basic Principles, Definitions and Field Of Application

FIRST SECTION
Basic Principles and Definitions

Binding nature of the Law

ARTICLE 4- (1) Ignorance of the criminal laws may not be an excuse.

(2) However, a person who commits an offence through an inevitable mistake due to his ignorance of the law may not be kept criminally responsible from such offence.

Keywords

Mistake of law - national proceedings



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