Rezeption und Weiterentwicklung des schweizerischen Zivilgesetzbuches in der Türkei

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Reception and Development of the Swiss Civil Code in Turkey The history of legal transplantation and reception in Turkey is an old one: It started in the middle of the 19th century during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, it went on with the foundation of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923 and it still goes on with the view of full membership in the European Union. Common to all these endeavours is the ideal of becoming a part of Europe through internalising also its legal inheritance. The reception of the Swiss Civil Code was certainly one of the most important steps towards this. The aim of this article is to focus on the problems related to the application of this Code and its development in Turkey over the past eighty years. This time span will be analysed in three phases: The first phase can be extended up to 1980. In this period no major changes were made to the Turkish Civil Code but some complementary laws were passed. In the second stage, which would run from 1980 to 2002, one

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