The fraud concept in the Turkish Law of Obligations

Fraud means misleading someone or deceiving someone by misinforming them about the nature of something. In the meaning of the Turkish Code of Obligations, fraud means achieving execution of a contract by evoking a false impression in the opposing party. A wilful act is required for the fraud to ocur. The subject of this dissertation relates to structure of the concept of fraud in Turkish Law. In the first section we examine concept of fraud as a type defect in will, the conditions required for fraud to occur and the types of fraud. In the second section we expand on effects and consequences of fraud and discuss remediation of damages arising due to fraud. In the third section, we discuss the relations and differences between the concept of fraud and concepts like fault, intimidation, over-enjoyment and comparable, similar concepts which can be defined as types of defect in will.