Crimes aggravated by the result

Crimes aggravated by the result can be defined in short terms as offences that cause another or an aggravated form of the offenders intend and require heavier punishment. In the regulation of these offences there?s a basic form of the offence and a specific result bound to it.There was no general provision related to these offences in the old Turkish Criminal Code number 765. It was mentioned in the doctrine that these offences constitute a form of objective liability. New Turkish Criminal Code number 5237 that entered into force on 01.06.2005 involves a general provision on crimes aggravated by the result (Art. 23). According to this privision offender can only be liable if his act is at least negligent.The regulation method mentioned above is adopted from German Criminal Code § 18 and this regulation removed objective liability from the system. The purpose of this dissertation is to open this change to discussion and introduce the criterias that might be used in determination of the criminal liability.