Criminal Procedure Law No. 5271 ( Criminal Procedure Code ) regulates
While regulating the Criminal Procedure Code, it has given special importance to the “victim of the crime” and granted many powers and rights that were not available in the Criminal Procedure Code. In this way, the Criminal Procedure Code has strengthened the personal claim and reinforced the importance of the personal claim in terms of uncovering the material truth. However, during the Justice Commission stage, the provisions in this regard were taken to extremes and some of the basic principles of modern criminal procedure law were ignored. Moreover, due to this excessive regulation, very serious mistakes are made in practice and some of the basic principles of criminal trial law are clearly eliminated.
In this article, in particular, the “right to request the appointment of an attorney”, which is granted to the victim and the complainant and which they can use unconditionally, and the practice of “having the attorney present during the statement of the victim and the complainant” during the investigation phase will be examined.
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