YENİDÜNYA, A. Caner Marmara Üniversitesi - Hukuk Fakültesi - Ceza ve Ceza Muhakemesi Hukuku Anabilim Dalı, Turkey , İÇER, Zafer Marmara Üniversitesi - Hukuk Fakültesi - Ceza ve Ceza Muhakemesi Hukuku Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

The Crime of Establishing an Organization for the Purpose of Committing Crimes

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The crime of establishing an organization for the purpose of committing crimes” is regulated by the 220 th article of the Turkish Criminal Law No.5237. While the first paragraph sanctions the acts of setting up an organization to commit a crime and managing this organization, the second paragraph sanctions to be a member of this kind of organization. If this organization is an armed one, this necessitates the aggravation of the sentence. The fourth paragraph regulates the crimes committed within this kind of organization and the fifth paragraph regulates the responsibility of the leaders for these crimes. According to the sixth paragraph of the article, a person who commits a crime for the organization will also be sanctioned for being a member of the organization. The seventh paragraph regulates the responsibility of persons who knowingly and willfully lend assistance to the organization. Finally, the last paragraph of the article sanctions the act of propagandizing in a way that justifies, praises or encourages the acts of the organization that contains coercion, violence and threat. Committing this crime through media necessitates the aggravation of the sentence. The 221st article of the Turkish Criminal Law regulates the effective remorse.

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Setting up an organization , managing an organization , being a member of an organization , armed organization , lending assistance to an organization , to make propaganda for the organization , effective repentance.

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