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Das schweizerische Zivilgesetzbuch in der Türkei

Abstract

The young republic of Turkey of 1922 was obliged By an international convention to establish a modern legal system. Very quickly the Swiss Civil Code was translated and enacted in Turkey. This article traces the fate of Swiss marriage law within Turkish society and shows how the newly imported law was largely ignored and disregarded by the people. Even many special legislative acts in the following years were not successful at enforcing the new marriage rules. In 2001a revision of the Turkish(-Swiss) Civil Code took place which once again referred to contemporary Swiss law. Though the legal transfer from Switzerland to Turkey seems clearly to have failed, it has Had some impact on the evolution of Turkish law.