Fraud and aggravated fraud through the use of systems, banks or credit institutions as instruments

Fraud Crimes are one of the most common crimes in recent years. The most important factor that distinguished from the other crimes is ''fraud against the law''. In this study, ıt was tried to eleborate the types of fraud from the early codes till 5237 nb. Turkish Criminal Code Article 158, paragraph 1, subparagraph f, arranged through the use of IT systems, banks or credit institutions as instruments. It's clearly seen that an increase and diversification of fraud crimes especially parallel with rapid developments in technology. Chapter I examines the objective elements of the offense, subjective elements of the offense and unlawfulness. It's indicated controversial issues about fraud crimes in Turkish Legal Doctrine. Chapter II is designed to look over fraud especially through the use of IT systems, banks or credit institutions as instruments. Criminal investigation of the basic form of the fraud is mentioned beside the aggravated fraud in the sense that types of fraud, context, conditions of them. Chapter III, the last part of the thesis, examines the aggravated fraud crimes through the mode of proceeding, model of specific fraud types, conditions, sanctios, condition of judgment, statute of limitations. All in all, it's been tried to reach a conclusion in the light of the decisions of the Supreme Court on the controversial issues about the type of crime examined.