Volume 3, 2007
Human Rights
Yasemin Işiktaç
Pages 3-12
The Philosophy of the Turkish Legal Revolution
It is a fact that the reception of European codes into Turkish law was done bravely and without looking back. How and to what extent the European codes that were adopted in this way have affected social life is one of the difficult problems of sociology of law and philosophy of law. The above-mentioned historical perspective brings with it the following consequences:
• The necessity of a uniform law;
• The necessity to create a legal system that will deal satisfactorily with new events and developments; and
• The necessity of a uniform law uniting me national body as the key to meeting the obligation of absolute independence in order to get rid of external pressures.
The Turkish Revolution started with these targets and has been progressing in the same direction without any changes in its substantial content.