MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK
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LAW
Location,Istanbul University Faculty of Law
principle,The Turkish Law Revolution constitutes an important and founding part of Atatürk revolutions. The Turkish Legal Revolution, by its nature, has a different place among the revolutions in terms of making other revolutions and ensuring the protection of the revolutions made. In the legal revolution carried out by Atatürk, law was the assurance and guarantee of all social change movements. used.
promise, The right to jurisdiction of nations is the first condition of their independence. The existence of a nation whose power of justice is not independent cannot be accepted as a state.
M. Kemal Ataturk
Location,Ankara Faculty of Law
principle,Atatürk really wants a revolution in law, he aims to leave the old law aside in terms of its foundations and principles and to move to a new legal system based on brand new principles. It was not possible to accept the regulation of social and economic life with the rules of law far from meeting the needs of the Turkish nation, which aimed to reach the level of contemporary civilization, and it was not possible for the lawyers, who were the practitioners of this law, to be the pioneers of the Turkish nation in terms of their mentality. For this reason, as a result of meticulous research in the field of private and public law, the best laws of that day were translated and adopted to take their place in our law.
promise,I hope that I have thus explained the reasons for our current legal work. By issuing entirely new laws, we are attempting to undermine the old principles of law. We are opening the school to raise a new generation of law by starting to read from the alphabet with the new legal principles. What we rely on in all these works is our nation's superior talent and firm will. Our friends in these initiatives are our distinguished legal scholars who have understood the new law in the same way that I understood it with us. The time that will pass until the new legal principles show their effect with successful applications in our general life will shorten the tireless and indestructible power of the revolution and render it harmless.
M. Kemal Ataturk
Location,TBMM(Turkish Civil Code No. 743 Adoption) 17 February 1926
principle,The Turkish Civil Code No. 743 was made with great courage and determination in line with Atatürk goal of rising above the level of contemporary civilization. With this law, it was aimed to give the Turkish nation the rights and freedoms given to the citizens of the most advanced countries of that period. With the adoption of the Turkish Civil Code No.743, monogamy in marriage, equality between men and women in inheritance, equal rights in divorce, women With the legal regulations to give the right to enter the profession, a breakthrough was made to ensure equality between women and men, paving the way for women to participate in production and social life.
promise,In Civil Law, the way we will follow in family law will be the way of civilization. Letting go of legal affairs and adherence to superstitions are the worst nightmares that prevent nations from waking up. The Turkish nation cannot have nightmares.
M.Kemal Atatürk
Location,GNAT (Turkish Penal Code Adoption) March 1, 1926
principle,With this law, the principle of no crime and punishment without law took its place in the criminal law, and some penalties that were in the old system and incompatible with the modern understanding of law were also abolished.
promise, law is the common life rules of a human community. Like everything else in human life, law is always subject to gradual change. Apart from this heavy change of law, rapid change is seen in a limited time. Such rapid and deep legal changes always occur in the periods of great historical change of nations. In these periods, new rules of life, new law instead of old law
passing. The more fundamental and profound the change in the outlook on life in the spirit of a nation, the more serious and comprehensive the change in the law of that nation will be.
M. Kemal Ataturk
place, present and future
principle, the path that Ataturk established with his rationality and determination
And the last word, as in every field touched by our ancestor's hand, the importance he gave to our law always reinforces our determination to continue on this path and shows us that the darkest moments are the moments when we are closest to returning to the light by remembering the conditions under which he offered us these opportunities in moments of despair,
As Özkurt Law Office, we commemorate Mustafa Kemal Atatürk with respect, gratitude and longing.