Offences against the information system and data in the system in the Turkish Criminal Code

The subject of the study, which is handled under four chapters, is the crimes against the information system and the data in the information system regulated in the Turkish Penal Code No. 5237. In the first part, the subject is examined in general. In this framework, the concepts related to the subject, the ways of committing crimes against information systems and data in the system, the general characteristics of these crimes, and the perpetrators and victims of these crimes are explained. In the second part of the thesis, the crimes of accessing a data processing system, monitoring data transmissions through technical means without entering the system (Article 243 of the Turkish Penal Code); in the third part, the crimes of preventing the functioning of a system and deletion, alteration or corrupting of data (Article 244 of the Turkish Penal Code); and in the last part, the crime of prohibited devices or programs (Article 245/A of the Turkish Penal Code) are examined together with their elements.