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• MakaleAçık Erişim2023/r/munzur/4835
  A Critique of the Concerns on the Proprio Motu Powers of the ICC Prosecutor

  Kurtulus, Sehmus

  During the Rome Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries where the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was drafted, the ICC Prosecutor's powers were a matter of dispute. It was particularly the Prosecutor's authority to investigate complaints without any referral from a State Party or the Security Council which led to serious debates among participating States. Though there was wide support for the empowerment of the Prosecutor to activate the trigger mechanism of the ICC proprio motu (on his/her own initiative), there was also strong opposition. Some States described the prosecutorial powers granted to the Prosecutor as 'unacceptable' due to fears such as facing politically motivated prosecutions. Though the previous two prosecutorial terms showed that fears of politicized prosecutions were far-fetched, the process of selecting the third Prosecutor of the ICC for a nine-year term commencing 16 June 2021 once again put a spotlight on the prosecutorial powers as well as on the challenges the new Prosecutor would face. The present study will first draw attention to the judicial scrutiny of the chambers of the ICC and the filtering mechanism of the Rome Statute in an attempt to allay fears that the Prosecutor's powers may lead to politicized prosecutions. The study will then explain, in light of recent developments, why the ICC Prosecutor's power to act proprio motu is crucial for the effective operation of the Court. In so doing, the study will mainly benefit from primary sources such as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Official Records of the Rome Conference, Reports of the Office of the Prosecutor on Preliminary Examination Activities, Decisions of the Pre-Trial Chambers, as well as the comments made by scholars thereon.

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• MakaleYalnız künye2019Scopus SJRQ3/r/munzur/5069
  Terörizmin Uluslararası Ceza Divanının Yargı Yetkisi Dışında Bırakılmış Olmasına Dair Türkiye’nin İtirazlarının Yeniden Değerlendirilmesi

  Kurtuluş, Şehmus

  Türkiye’de binlerce sivilin ölümünden sorumlu olan ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin bizzat kendisinin de terör\rörgütü olarak tanıdığı PKK’nın Suriye kolu olan PYD’ye açıktan devam eden Amerikan askeri desteği, terörizm\rve terörizme destek suçlarının Uluslararası Ceza Hukuku boyutlarını Türkiye’de yeniden sıcak gündem maddesi\rhaline getirmiştir. Bu çalışmada, öncelikle, terörizm suçunun Uluslararası Ceza Divanınının yargı yetkisi dışında\rbırakılmış olmasının, Türkiye’nin bu mahkemeyi kuran Roma Statüsüne katılmayışının gerekçelerinden biri\rolup olamayacağı güncel gelişmeler ışığında tartışılmıştır. Ardından, Türkiye’nin Roma Statüsüne katılmasının\ron yıllardır süren terörle mücadelesine sunacağı muhtemel katkılara dikkat çekilerek, Türkiye’nin mahkemeye\rüye olmama gerekçelerini belirli aralıklarla gözden geçirmesi gerektiği vurgulanmıştır

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2019Scopus SJRQ3/r/munzur/3798
  Reassessment of Turkey’s objections to the exclusion of terrorism from the rome statute; [Terörizmin uluslararası ceza divanının yargı yetkisi dışında bırakılmış olmasına dair türkiyeʼnin İtirazlarının yeniden değerlendirilmesi]

  Kurtuluş, Şehmus

  Criminal justice response to terrorism and to the support for terrorism is still a hot topic in Turkey due to ongoing American military support for the PYD, which is Syrian wing of the internationally designated terrorist organization PKK whose indiscriminate attacks in Turkey has claimed lives of thousands of civilians. This article first discusses, in light of recent developments, whether exclusion of a separate crime of terrorism from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court can be a valid argument against Turkey’s accession to it. After discovering some of the possible contributions of Turkey’s Rome Statute accession to its decades-long struggle against terrorism, this study concludes that Turkey’s all other concerns regarding the accession should be periodically reevaluated.

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